Quotes About Connection

May you never steal, lie, or cheat, but if you must steal, then steal away my sorrows, and if you must lie, lie with me all the nights of my life, and if you must cheat, then please cheat death because I couldn't live a day without you.

I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed

We read to know we are not alone.

Family is pivotal, beyond the immediate family is the family of mankind. Connection with others, the need to feel others as a part of ourselves and ourselves as a part of them is an impulse native to all of us. We call people without this connectedness sick.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

...A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You, the people must git it this soul.

Whenever you have to say farewell to someone don't ever say goodbye, say see you later or in till next time but never goodbye. Saying goodbye is like saying see you never.

Gaze up at the stars knowing that I see the same sky and wish the same sweet dreams.

There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart.

Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.

Never say goodbye because saying goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Don't be dismayed at goodbyes, a farewell is necessary before you can meet again and meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.

You and I will meet again, When we're least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won't say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again

Eat - well is drink - well's brother

You become about as exciting as your food blender. The kids come in, look you in the eye, and ask if anybody's home.

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

Sometimes it's just easier to tell a stranger than to tell the people you are close to. The freedom of speech is my liberation from solitude and if you should take that negatively or with annoyance then that's on you to look the other way.

The best relationship is one in which you feel free to show even your negative side and still have the hope that it will strengthen your relationship.

Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines.