Quotes About Connection

When I sing, I have a sense of peace, I feel like my brain turns off, and I become the core person of who I am - the essence of me. I feel connected to whatever is out there. It's almost like I leave my body and get to watch.

Michelle Celmer

Exercise your heart by lifting other people up!

Exercise your heart by lifting someone else up!" ~Michelle Cole

Exercise your heart by lifting other people up!" ~Michelle Cole

Sometimes, the biggest secrets you can only tell a stranger.

You can't hurt me the way you think you can. But even if you could? I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again. I'm in love with you, Mara. I love you. No matter what you do.

I'm too selfish to leave you," I said. Noah pulled back so I could see his smile. I'm too selfish to let you.

Her preaching theme, indeed, her modus operandi, might have been Include all!—she was always dragging some person she'd just met to our lunches and meetings and events—but how abruptly and thoroughly she'd excluded me.

Here was a minister who understood the connection between spirituality and food!)

One great thing about church friends: they buy and read your books.

What I'd like to know"—Tom set down his eggroll and drew himself up—"is why every time I make a friend in the congregation, they stop coming to church?" The anguish in his voice surprised me. "That is weird," I said. Apparently, I was caught in yet another pattern larger than myself.

Had I first come to the AUUCC when Tom was the senior minister, I might have cathected with him as profoundly as I had with Sparlo—and there were many people at the AUUCC who had; they adored Tom and came to church to hear him, and might never attach as ardently to any other minister. Like baby ducks, we were imprinted by the one we knew first.

There's something to be said for geographic affinity, all right.

I got a call this morning, and it was from Nancy Kerrigan, wishing me luck. She wished me luck and sent me all her good wishes.

If you have nothing in life but a good friend, you're rich.

Family is family,' sighed the gondolier. 'Family is everything,' declared Marta Gasperin, bending to kiss the old man on the cheek, at which he flushed. She added mischievously, 'Family and books , of course.

Family is family," sighed the gondolier. "Family is everything," declared Marta Gasperin

Love makes the time pass, but time makes love pass, too.

I'm like a stray cat. If you feed me, I don't leave.

He knew for certain that she belonged forever in his arms, just as he knew she didn't realize it yet.

MINDFUL MOMENT: When I'm hungry, I eat what I love. When I'm bored, I do something I love. When I'm lonely, I connect with someone I love. When I feel sad, I remember that I am loved.

You want it to feel like a surprise. You want to keep him guessing whether he'll make you smile entirely so that when you do, he will feel like he's been given a gift.

And once we die, what we leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. [Pericles]