Quotes About Connection

Now, Gunner takes her call, as though they had spoken only yesterday

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog.

Look at those hands, Oh God, those hands toiled to raise me. —Elvis Presley at his mother's casket

Only now does he realize that the worst of all miseries to afflict the human heart is loneliness.

If emotions were universal, then in one sense he was not alone, never had been alone, and never could be alone....No pain or happiness was unique. All humanity drank from the same river of emotion; and by drinking, every race, religion, and nationality became one indivisible species.

telepathy," had been part of that fund of knowledge called "instinct.

surely every human being on the planet had the same potential to be telepathic.

we're all needed, even those who sometimes think we're worthless, plain, and dull. If we love and allow ourselves to be loved . . . well, a person who loves is the most precious thing in the world, worth all the fortunes that ever were.

Friendship is an illusion.. Like love and compassion!

He checks his iPhone and discovers one text message. As always, it is from Ace of Diamonds

But no lie, regardless of how well intended, could deceive in telepathic communication

he expressed his love more often with pats on the head and affectionate smiles than with kisses and extravagant proclamations of devotion.

The directness of his stare suggests her every word matters to him, and she feels that she has his sincere sympathy rather than unwanted pity.

But no lie, regardless of how well intended, could deceive in telepathic communication, because the truth of the sender's motives was inextricably bound up in the emotions that were transmitted with the words.

From now on, stay close by my side," Jeffy said. "Don't even think about getting more than an arm's reach away from me.

You need somebody to work for besides who pays you, somebody special to build something with, to share a future with.

emotionally, intellectually, psychologically, chronologically, and now even geographically

the worst of all miseries to afflict the human heart is loneliness.

No. Let's just say they and I are in the same club. They're my kind. You can never be.

we are the instruments of one another's salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.

Such a commune of flesh and

On that Friday, his granddaughter, Sharona, was staffing the front room

Stories were the greatest blessing of intelligence. They were food for the soul. They were medicine. You could live a thousand lives through stories—and learn to shape your own life into a story of the best kind. She

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves"—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. And "Greater love hath no man than this: that he lay down his life for his friends"—The Gospel According to Saint John.)