Quotes About Connection

The improviser has to understand that his first skill lies in releasing his partner's imagination.

Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.

Sunflowers are like people to me.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination.

What you contemplate, you touch. What you enter into in imagination, you make yourself one with.

What's a mediator you ask? Oh, a person who acts as a liason between the living and the dead. Hey, wait a minute...what're you doing with that strait jacket?-Suze Simon's imagination

Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

My love is my soul's imagination. How do I love you? Imagine.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.

When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations.

Isn't it true that it's not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations?

One of the side effects of losing intimacy with God is that at some point we stop doing ministry out of imagination and we begin doing it out of memory.

God and the imagination are one.

The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside a place for so long that the mind and imagination fuse.

The living can assist the imagination of the dead.

Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

A place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.

Imagination is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections-to exercise our imaginations.

I think the essence of family is that you have to agree to it, and then supply, out of your imagination and capacity for loyalty, the contents of it.