Quotes About Connection

Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.

Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long.

Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long. Had I never learned to like books, I would have become the dullest sort of hermit.

There's nothing better than a world where everybody's just trying to make each other laugh.

Let me tell ya. You gotta pay attention to signs. When life reaches out with a moment like this it's a sin if you don't reach back... I'm telling you.

You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life

I would absolutely love to go back to the simplicity of the '80s, where there wasn't texting, social media, iPhones, or smartphones. I love the fact that you would go home and check your messages. I'm not well suited to the world of modern technology.

He was a small part of summer, he was summer's tongue.

I believe there is something else entirely going on but no single person can ever know it, so we fall in love.

His mom calls him Berger?

Love is always partly a misunderstanding';

I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson's birthday party.

For a moment she knew exactly what he was thinking, not just about Tom, but about her, and himself, and all of life, and she liked the way he saw things. She could spend her life tuning into the calming frequency of his thoughts. He wasn't a stiff, and he wasn't a weakling either. What was the word for it? Sensitive was the only one that came to mind, amazing as that was to consider; he was a sensitive man. He soaked up whatever you gave him.

He threw all his affection at them and hoped that some of it would stick, maybe even come back to him, though if it didn't he gave it anyway; he gave it more, even, because everyone had something that needed to come out.

You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved.

I've never known someone to become more at home in his or her own body, in all of its flaws and its grace, without becoming more compassionate to all of life.

Images, similars, signs, correspondences, and coincidences infer a different way to look at the world; they give rise to a different kind of knowledge.

Love is the only thing that doubles every time it's given," said Albert Schweitzer.

Altruism is like rings in the water when you toss a pebble. At first the circles are very small, then they get larger, and finally they embrace the entire surface of the ocean. —ALEXANDRE JOLLIEN

to the waves and the depths of the ocean. A storm may be raging at the surface, but the depths remain calm. The wise man always remains connected to the depths. On the other hand, he who knows only the surface and is unaware of the depths is lost when he is buffeted by the waves of suffering. But how, you might ask, can I avoid being shattered

In one of his sermons, the Buddha described reality as a display of pearls—each pearl reflects all of the others, as well as the palace whose façade they decorate, and the entirety of the universe. This comes down to saying that all of reality is present in each of its parts. This image is a good illustration of interdependence, which states that no entity independent of the whole can exist anywhere in the universe.

There's nothing odd about the fact that what we conceive corresponds to what we perceive .

In all of us is the design of the world, We have the ability to access and understand the universe. To become other forms. It's tea you drink now, in six hours it becomes you.

Dictionaries define love as "the inclination of one person for another" (Larousse), or as a "strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties" (Merriam-Webster).