Quotes About Connection

Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.

He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though...keep up with my news...check if I'm happy...

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.

You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him.

We may feel angry because they don't guess who we are or what we want from them, because "if they really loved us," of course, they would be able to guess.

thinking. And we don't need language to stand as an intermediary between us and the world; we can also experience it directly through our senses. We are capable of directly sensing things like the sounds of birds, the scent of beautiful flowers and the sight of a loved one's smile. And we know with the heart as well as the head. Thinking is not all there is to conscious experience. The mind is bigger and more encompassing than thought alone.

To cultivate mindfulness truly, we need to become fully integrated with our body once more

We get drawn into this emotional quicksand because our state of mind is intimately connected with memory. The mind is constantly trawling through memories to find those that echo our current emotional state

The more important the emotion is, the fewer words required to express it: Will you go out with me? I think I like you. I care for you. I love you. Marry me. Goodbye.

G'Kar: I believe that when we leave a place, part of it goes with us and part of us remains. Go anywhere in the station when it is quiet, and just listen. After a while, you will hear the echoes of all our conversations, every thought and word we've exchanged. Long after we are gone, our voices will linger in these walls for as long as this place remains. But I will admit that the part of me that is going will very much miss the part of you that is staying.

Prayer is indeed the Christian's vital breath and native air.

I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.

The Book Booth There's not a big selection, It's not locked for protection, But at the intersection Of Booth and Telephone, Two customers politely Can snuggle in it (tightly) And go once over (lightly) The books they'd like to own. "Readcycle" means you leave one - A book you love. Retrieve one... Who knows? You might receive one You haven't read before. Hats off to the committee For such an itty-bitty Library in the city, Which proves that less is more.

Aunque me temo que nos sentimos atraídos por aquello que nos abandona, y por lo que parece más probable que vaya a abandonarnos, finalmente creo que nos define lo que nos acoge.

Totul în via?? este legat de vocile pe frecvenÈ›a c?rora te reglezi È™i de cele la care renunÈ›i.

The child is alone only in the presence of someone.

A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.

Sources of collective effervescence—ceremonies, musical performances, sports, dances, rituals within churches—shift the rhythms of our bodies to a shared biological rhythm, breaking down that most basic barrier between self and other, the idea that we are physically separated by the boundaries of our skin.

Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life.

Feeling part of something much larger than the self is music to our ears. This transformation of the self brought about by awe is a powerful antidote to the isolation and loneliness that is epidemic today.

How does awe transform us? By quieting the nagging, self-critical, overbearing, status-conscious voice of our self, or ego, and empowering us to collaborate, to open our minds to wonders, and to see the deep patterns of life.

Sapete, alle volte è l'amore degli altri che ci innamora: vediamo una persona solo quando essa chiede i nostri occhi.

There is nothing more gorgeous than being in a room with a play or watching someone on a stage delineate the human condition.

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.