Quotes About Connection

The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.

Warriors always seek the brotherhood of their kind.

The exchange was as warm and friendly as a pair of automated range finders getting a mutual target lock.

We must find our friends where we can, and make those bonds count.

Then she squeezed me tighter. Her leg came up and wrapped around me. Then she kissed me too hard and our teeth banged together. I felt like a boa constrictor's dinner.

But the part of ourselves we hate the most is our longing to be wanted and enjoyed.

Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free. DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

Everything we do for God will be the overflow of intimacy with God.

I see the world is flat and the map flat that records it, and both page and world speak each other forever. Put a fold in eternity and it is just as flat and wide. Take the map of the world and fold it into a boat and the boat becomes the world.

If the holy conversation, a generous discourse, is to occur, the labeling must cease. We are not dealing with labels, we are talking to people.

The only difference between you and God is that you have forgotten you are divine.

Dogs have such a limited lifespan to teach us about friendship and loyalty...perhaps they know we have a short span of attention.

Human life is given meaning, focus, direction: by the past. In: BBC4 The Road to Palmyra

only because language has something in common with the world that it can be used to picture the world, so it is only because of logic that our sentences have meaning at all.

One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.

E]motional suffering cannot be disowned from its sociocultural context. In other words, relationships are critical to virtually every psychiatric illness and its treatment. Those relationships stretch far beyond the therapist-patient relationship.

I've learned that speaking to people creates a pathway into their world, and it lets them come into mine, too.

Up on the mountain, my most valuable possessions were my relationships with my neighbors.

Ms. Leakey and Mr. Granite hugged each other. They had a hard time separating after that because they were covered with glue. Everybody laughed.

If your blood didn't flow, you would die, Arlo," said Andrea, who calls me by my real name because she knows I don't like it.

Miss Daisy seemed like a pretty cool lady, for a teacher. Anybody who hated school and liked to sit around watching TV and eating chocolate treats was okay by me. Me and Miss Daisy had a lot in common. Maybe going to school wouldn't be so terrible after all.

Find your voice, shout it from the rooftops, and keep doing it until the people that are looking for you find you.

Heal another's heart and in the process you will heal your own.

The effects of kindness are not always seen immediately, Sometimes it takes years until your kindness will pay off, And is returned to you. And sometimes you never see the fruits of your labors, But they are there, Deep inside of the soul of the one you touched.