Quotes About Connection

She loved him, even though it was so hard to love anybody else after loving my dad. I think I knew this before she did.

It's so difficult to say goodbye because, really, we've only just said hello.

Perry was leaning into my mother as he listened to what she said. They talked so close. He only leaned closer, his hands on the table, his leg touching hers. "It's so risky," my mother said. "Why are you doing this?" "Because I'm human being. Because we're all human beings." My mother closed her eyes and winced. Maybe her hearing aid was ringing and bothering her, but as I watched her turn down the volume, I wanted to tell her right then that she couldn't quiet all those outside voices forever.

What does the father represent? For Martin Luther, our fathers are godly to us: how we see our fathers has a lot to do with how we see, or don't see, God: for God manifests himself in the father.

Every now and then you get hit with hard times or good— who's to say? But then there are these tiny times in between when you look up at the tops of trees swaying or you sit don to a fine meal with a new family or you wake up alone and by the end of the day, you got yourself your first friend.

Look at me. You are the first person to ask about him. Do you understand? No one has ever asked about this man, your relative, Richard. No one has called him down. No one ever printed out his name. You are responsible now. You must remember him in order to honor him.

but when she looked into his eyes, those dark velvet brown eyes, Arabella saw something of tenderness. And for all that she should have known better, for all of her common sense, she felt the stirrings of old feelings that she had thought never to feel again.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.

Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

The two women looked at each other as if through the periscopes of enemy submarines across a fathomless and crawling sea.

All you'd have to do is get a sad look, and he'd try to do something for you.

when we disconnect emotionally and refuse to recognize our own feelings, our Adult abandons our Inner Child. However, when we recognize our feelings and are willing to experience them, we have chosen the intent to love and to learn about ourselves. Then our Adult is connected with our Inner Child. The

I realized you know what? That is not how I wanna live my life; I don't want to be responsible for creating a safeness space for somebody else to open, I want them to meet me there

An oddly paired duo, Pete, a computer "junkie" and

the phenomena of the reunion—

I love watching Daddy play with Sara. I remember exactly how it felt to hold Daddy's hand when I was little. You could show me the hands of a thousand men and I could pick out my Daddy's, no problem.

Margaret Sidney

We stand before a burning bush whenever other human beings share with us something of their relationship with God or something of the movements of their hearts. In such moments may we always realize that we stand on holy ground

We are because God is