Quotes About Connection

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

I like to think of home as a verb, something we keep recreating.

I wondered: what happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change?

If some people say what is in their hearts and other people say what glides easily off the tongue, how can we talk to one another?

Without the musician, all life would be loneliness.

The young man murmured in his sleep and said, "Dear Sparrow," and Sparrow felt, for the first time, how the purest joy could be a heaviness.

did I yearn for a new eye as a window to the outside world, or for the world to look in on me?

nce each year, my father used to take us to the symphony. We never had good seats but Ba said it didn't matter, the point was to be there, to exist in the room while music, however old it might be, was being renewed.

Once each year, my father used to take us to the symphony. We never had good seats but Ba said it didn't matter, the point was to be there, to exist in the room while music, however old it might be, was being renewed.

How did Yiwen see her? Was she a sister, a friend, a confidant, something else? Here is the one thing in my life, Ai-Ming thought, that has no parameters. She wanted to tell Yiwen how she felt, but she was afraid to damage everything they had.

He kisses her, and she knows, somehow, that he is asking for help, for an end to the sadness they are causing one another. Asking because, after all these years together, it is the only thing that might save them.

Surely another story could serve the same purpose, and lift her out of her solitude.

you out here," Ridge said.

They stood like that, his embrace still holding her, for ten seconds at most, during which she ignored the truth of the moment and allowed herself to savor the illusion of being cared for.

You touch the world even if you do not want it to touch you. -Leona Montgomery

So, I am Mr. Hampton again. It seems that I am only Julian when you forget yourself." "I...that is..." "We have known each other more than half our lives, Pen." She had not even noticed what she called him. "I do not want you to call me Mr. Hampton in private conversation ever again.

You are the husband of my heart, and the love of my life. Wherever I am, whatever I do, you are joined with me and I with you. The part of me that matters will live with you forever. I accept the chain that binds us with joy, because in this unity I have known the purest freedom.

She barely heard. Barely answered. Finally she nodded. Fingertips

We need to always deal with the child in front of us, not the child of our fantasies.

It is hardly surprising that I have devoted a great deal of time and energy in my professional career to encouraging parents to be present with the child right in front of them rather than being overly focused on the future.

there is an inverse relationship between income and closeness to parents.

Perhaps the single most important ritual a family can observe is having dinner together.

Empathy is the accurate understanding of another person'ts internal experience. It has nothing to do with agreeing or disagreeing with that experience. Unlike sympathy, it makes no assumptions about how the other person is feeling.

Empathy is the accurate understanding of another person's internal experience. It has nothing to do with agreeing or disagreeing with that experience. Unlike sympathy, it makes no assumptions about how the other person is feeling.