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Quotes About Connection

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread
~ Robert Burton
Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
~ Thornton Wilder
Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.
~ Amy Lowell
I love you when I forget about me.
~ Joni Mitchell
If I speak to thee in friendship's name, thou think'st I speak too coldly, if I mention love's devoted flame, thou say'st I speak too boldly
~ Thomas More
Love and friendship exclude each other
~ Jean de la Bruyere
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is
~ Vladimir Nabokov
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
~ Unknown
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.
~ Rita Hayworth
Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way.
~ Helene Cixous
And so, too, I speak of love: he who is held by it is held by the strongest of bonds, and yet the stress is pleasant. Moreover, he can sweetly bear all that happens to him. When one has found this bond, he looks for no other.
~ Meister Eckhart
It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it. . . . This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race.
~ Unknown
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
~ Moliere
The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love, and to catch in it all that comes
~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution
~ Teilhard de Chardin
The best smell in the world is that man that you love.
~ Jennifer Aniston
I may not be a smart man but I know what love is
~ Teilhard de Chardin
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves
~ Teilhard de Chardin
Love is when you look into someone's eyes, and suddenly, you go all the way inside, to their soul... and you both know, instantly.
~ Richard von Krafft-Ebing
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
~ Samuel Johnson
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
~ Benjamin Franklin