Quotes About Connection

When someone you love, dies, it's as if they leave you with half shares of your life together. The person you were in their eyes dies with them.

Breathe next to me. And I will capture a piece of your soul along with mine.

efforts of the people you're working with, not just from your own solitary work.

when you walk into the classroom, your own mindset makes all the difference in the world. It affects how you connect or don't connect with each child, and in turn how they connect with you.

Authentic listening is not easy. We hear the words, but rarely do we really slow down to listen and to squint with our ears, to hear the emotions, fears, and underlying concerns. Kevin Cashman

We tend to connect bad food and bad habits with romance and sex.

You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi.

Foods high in bad fats, sugar and chemicals are directly linked to many negative emotions, whereas whole, natural foods rich in nutrients - foods such as fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes - contribute to greater energy and positive emotions.

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.

Loneliness is not a longing for company, it is a longing for kind. And kind means people who can see you who you are, and that means they have enough intelligence and sensitivity and patience to do that.

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.

Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.

You happened to me. You were as deep down as I've ever been. You were inside me like my pulse.

Sweetheart, it isn't lust; it's all the rest of what I want with you that scares me shitless.

There are lines of yours I know by heart. There are scents of yours soaked in my skin.

I don't know if you have the words I need. I know you didn't need the ones I had.

In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.

We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for book talks, circles for story time; we'll always need brick-and-mortar libraries.

This is the greatest and most fraught romance of modern society, the marriage between the IT staff and those who depend on them.

The Internet is the trailer park for the soul.

Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.

Words speak to the the mind through the ears and actions speak to the mind through the eye

The realization that my parents, too, felt pain and fear frightened me more than any strangers could.

Vulnerability gives us freedom, power and connects us to a network of injured souls. It is through the art of being real that we can heal ourself and others.