Quotes About Connection

her mother touch my hand and say, 'If there is such a thing as good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Reading is love in action.

Forcing yourself to see the world through love's gaze can be healthy. Love is an attitude to life. It can save us.

the thing that had left her vulnerable, really, was the absence of love.

the simplest and quickest routes to happiness seems to be to make someone else happy.

That's why everyone hates each other nowadays,' he reckoned. 'Because they are overloaded with non-friends friends.

my mind switches to what it would be like to be with her, to lose my way with her, to whisper longings into her ear, to devour and be devoured. To wake up in the same bed and talk and laugh and be in comfortable silence with her. To give her breakfast. Toast. Blackcurrant jam. Pink grapefruit juice. Maybe some watermelon. Sliced. On a plate. She would smile, and I see it in my mind, the smile, and I would dare to feel happy with another human being.

Language gives us the power to voice our experience, to reconnect with the world, and to change our own and other people's lives.

Almost everything she had done in her life, she realised - almost everything she had bought and worked for and consumed - had taken her further away from understanding that she and all humans were really just one of nine million species.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. —CARL SAGAN

The cure for loneliness is understanding who we are.

That is what the taste of blood does. It takes away the gap between thought and action.To think is to do. There is no unlived life inside you as the air speeds past your body, as you look down at the dreary villages and market towns...

The kind that could only be possible in someone who was going to die at some point in the future, and also someone who had lived enough to know that loving and being loved back was a hard thing to get right, but when you managed it, you could see forever.

What was it about those silent exchanges in a crowded place? There was a magic to them, like a secret shared.

when you write with a pen it is like writing with a part of yourself like it is another finger.

A world where, in the words of American sociologist Sherry Turkle, "we expect more from technology and less from each other.

But amid pure nature (or the 'tonic of wildness' as Thoreau called it) solitude took on a different character. It became in itself a kind of connection. A connection between herself and the world. And between her and herself.

It's okay to let people find you. You don't have to spread yourself so thin you become invisible. You don't have to always be the person reaching out. You can sometimes allow yourself to be reached. As the great writer Anne Lamott puts it: "Lighthouses don't go running all over an island for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

We don't have to have tried every variety of grape from every vineyard to know the pleasure of wine. Love and laughter and fear and pain are universal currencies. ... We are as completely and utterly alive as we are in any other life and have access to the same emotional spectrum.

Kindness is a boomerang. You throw it out and you get it back. You had done kind things in the world, and you had been rewarded with kindness in return.

Things I should do less of on the internet Post about a meaningful experience, when I could be having an actual meaningful experience.

Mental health is intricately related to the whole body. And the whole body is intricately related to mental health. You can't draw a line between a body and a mind any more than you can draw a line between oceans.

A kiss,' she said, 'is like music. It stops time...

When I am in a room with People," he wrote, "if I ever am free from speculating on creations of my own brain, then not myself goes home to myself: but the identity of everyone in the room begins to press upon me so that I am in a very little time annihilated.