Quotes About Connection

We have become people of the device.

We are called to become people of prayer, not people of the device.

ACTION STEP If you are ever bored, look for a way to get outside yourself and serve others.

The only thing these online connections and communities prove is that as human beings we have an incredible need and hunger for meaningful interaction with each other.

I'm not hurting anyone' is another attempt to avoid personal responsibility in a world where everything we think, do, and say affects someone, something, sooner or later. Your actions profoundly affect your inner reality, and sooner or later your inner reality will seek an outer expression through your words and actions or your silence and inaction.

every relationship improves when we are mindful of each other's dreams.

We hide because we think people will love us less if they truly know us, but the opposite is true in most cases. If we are willing to take the risk and reveal ourselves for who we are, we discover that most people are relieved to know that we are human. Why? Because they are human, too, and are filled with the same fear as you. In most cases, you will find that the things you thought would cause people to stop loving you actually lead them to love you more.

You may think you know just about everything there is to know about your partner, but you will be amazed at what you are missing out on if you open yourself up to taking another look. So, from time to time, it may help to approach each other as if for the first time. In this way you will experience the joy of rediscovery. Intimacy is not always about seeing new things. Sometimes it is about seeing what has always been before you, but in a different light or from a new perspective.

Too often we spend too much time asking or wondering why it didn't work out. Why do friendships end? Why do people break up? These are great questions, but surely the more important question is, What keeps people together? And not just together, but together in dynamic relationships. For the primary goal of relationships is not simply to stay together. Many people succeed in staying together but have failed relationships: their relationships are surviving but not thriving.

What keeps people together in dynamic relationships? A common purpose. Why do people break up? Because they have no sense of common purpose; or they lose sight of their common purpose; or their common purpose becomes unimportant to them. So in order to create extraordinary relationships we have to develop a common understanding of a shared purpose. But before we can understand the purpose of our relationships, we must first understand our purpose as individuals.

Intimacy is a risk. It should not be taken lightly, but we must take it. No man or woman can live a full life without being known by at least one person. Intimacy is a prerequisite for all those who wish to live the abundant life. The only true reason to delay the adventurous and risky pursuit of real intimacy is the absence of a confidant freely chosen and worthy of our trust.

You will only ever see less than one percent of the impact you have on people's lives.

We need friends who help to make us whole, not friends who add to our dividedness.

Those closest to us have first claim to our acts of love.

Everytime we use an invention or read a book or study a science or listen to music, we're enjoying someone else's idea— someone who may have lived thousands of years ago, and thousands of miles away from here.

Somehow, when a person you like reads your poem and says they like it, the poem seems all fresh and new afterwards. I wonder why?

Everett found to his chagrin that questions that appeared minor gained incredible staying power and significance from even the most tenuous connection to slavery.

If you are uncertain, or lack evidence, about whether a particular outcome was caused by a preceding event, you are more likely to quickly associate them together," says Sang Wan Lee, a postdoctoral scholar in neuroscience at Caltech

Cooking is always very romantic!

I instantly like people who laugh at my jokes. It's a weakness of mine.

When you're having sex again, it makes you wonder why you weren't before. What could possibly have been bad enough to make you stop doing THAT?

So much of marriage is spent only half paying attention to each other. Talking while driving. Talking while watching Netflix. Talking while staring at a toddler, or scanning utility bills or catalogs from the mail or Evites for some distant weekend.

The most important people in this man's life - the people who have mattered to him most - aren't my Mother or his wives or me or Anna or Allie. The people who matter most are the people in his head. That is loneliness.

I prayed you felt safe, full of joy and content. That when I whispered "I love you," you knew what I meant.