Quotes About Connection

Time and again I hear how important the darker environment is to those at our vintage-faith worship gathering. Attenders feel they can freely pray in a corner by themselves without feeling that everyone is staring at them.

This might sound odd, but I believe that one of the biggest reasons there are so many negative perceptions of Christianity and the church is that Christians hang out with each other too much.

There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that transcends all other affections of the heart. —WASHINGTON IRVING

For too many sons, this emotional breach between them and their fathers remains a lifelong source of sadness, anger, bitterness, or shame.

Emotional distance keeps many good men

Emotional distance keeps many good men from being better fathers;

Model a manhood of emotional attachment.

It was more profitable building a bridge between riverbanks than between different races and religions.

Remember, people don't buy from you because they understand what you sell—they buy from you because they feel understood.

Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you. So carve your name on hearts and not on marble." — C. H. Spurgeon

I have an almost religious zeal — not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

I love California; I practically grew up in Phoenix.

The difference between love and sex is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

New York is never a megalopolis of however many millions; it's always just your neighborhood—the shoe repair guy, the carpenter, the grocer, the post office—like any small town in Texas, really. (Dan Rather, from My First New York)

The kind of relationship I had with my mother didn't make me gay. I had that kind of relationship with my mother because I was gay.

you need to find a partner who's good in bed, who takes pleasure in giving pleasure, and who's game for almost anything. And you'll have a much easier time attracting someone like that if you're good, giving, and game yourself.

sex is about connection and intimacy, pleasure and release.

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.

I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

Relationships are how you transform as a person. Relationships are how you transcend your current limitations. Relationships are how you produce results. Relationships are the purpose of life.

Days and nights among the trees is not time off the books. It is not a subtraction from the days of life but an addition to them.