Quotes About Connection

It is your task to walk back from the woods with an animal, not a pelt, not a corpse, but something alive. Curate that energy, feed it, don't domesticate it, make culture from it. It should be walking alongside you, not slung over your shoulder. You build your structures from its growls.

Well, I offer a retuning of intention, a slightly more sober directive—to be of a place, to labour under a related indebtedness to a stretch of earth that you have not claimed but which has claimed you.

The long-departed cave lion is more indigenous to the moor than I will ever be.

I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.

Unity transcends time, style, and numbers. When people hold hands across their own theologies, that unity can bring down the modern-day walls of Jericho.

Now I know that the songs are just tools that help us get in the right place for the presence of God to become real and tangible to us

We've become too song focused, and in truth I believe that we need to be more worship focused. We've lost the ability to push aside the songs and replace them with twenty-five minutes of crying out, opening our hearts and heads with the raw worship of God who's within us.

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

Only one thing yet remains, that we should unite our prayer to His—or rather, should implore Him to make it one with His. For this union will render it so powerful that no other prayers can compare with it.

Calling for an end to the cold war, he said that "in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we share this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

Love is the fall in the genus (Liebe ist der Sturz in die Gattung)

People only know what you tell them.And it was true.People gave out their whole life stories to anyone and everyone without a second's thought.Stand at a bus stop,sit in a strange pub,get banged up,and someone would always give you their life story.It was as if they were trying to prove they existed

will always be there for you, and so will your dad. We might fight and argue, but we are family at bottom, eh?

After all, they were brothers, bonded by blood, and nothing would ever change that.

They weren't a bad family. At least they loved one another, cared for one another. Most of the time anyway.

Her nephew, Aiden Junior, and his girl were hanging on to each other for dear life, just happy being

My sister and my sister's child, Myself and children three.' – William Cowper, 1731-1800 With affection beaming in one eye and calculation shining out of the other. – Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens, 1812-1870

I hope to meet many of you at my signings, and I look forward to saying hello to you all. Take care and God bless, Martina x

She is in every flower you see and every butterfly and in the clouds and in the trees.

She had always been the voice of reason, had been the one who smoothed over quarrels and made sure that they remembered they were family. Stopped the fights before they began and reminded them that, at the end of the day, each other was all that any of them really had. As close as they were, they had all fallen out big time over the years. She had been the voice of reason.

And it was true. People gave out their whole life stories to anyone and everyone without a second's thought. Stand at a bus stop, sit in a strange pub, get banged up, and someone would always give you their life story.

But she wanted her mother to know that she did love her. All day, every day, she loved her.

once your mother was gone, they were gone, and no one could ever replace them.

Your mum is gone, but you are a part of her legacy – while you live, she will never really be dead. You have her blood in your veins, and her wisdom in your mind. Your child will be a part of her even though she is gone.