Quotes About Connection

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend

Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it

Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone

The rule for us all is perfectly simple. Do not waste time bothering whether you love your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

He that is a friend to himself, know; he is a friend to all.

I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you -- Nobody -- too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise -- you know!

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it

Friendship is a sheltering tree

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attentionÃ. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance

The light of friendship is like the light of phosphorus, even plainest when all around is dark.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking

Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world

You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that

Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives.