Quotes About Connection

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

A cat does not want all the world to love her -- only those she has chosen to love.

Love is not something you did it is something you do

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

The life and love we create is the life and love we live.

If you love someone, put their name in a circle; because hearts can be broken, but circles never end.

The family seems to have two predominant functions: to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.

What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Young love is two hearts with only one thing in mind.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.

I am my beloved, and my beloved is me.

We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.