Quotes About Connection

As the dementia progresses and the person develops trouble with coordination and language, it is easy to forget his need to experience pleasant things and to enjoy himself. Never overlook the importance of hand holding, touching, hugging, and loving.

Holding hands, hugging, or just sitting companionably together is an important way to continue to communicate.

The parents in the room know that texting is actually the best way to communicate with your kids. It might be the only way to communicate with your kids.

We're finding [texting] 11 times more powerful than email [for communicating with kids].

I often look around in a church at the utterly expressionless faces singing "Alleluia! Alleluia!" and wonder why we don't let our faces know what our lips are saying.

The experience of speaking from the heart and being taken seriously builds the psychic architecture that supports the capacity to bear life.

God's Love does exactly the same thing. It's an unconditional giving of yourself for another with no strings attached.

She was filled with a strange, wild, unfamiliar happiness, and knew that this was love. Twice in her life she had mistaken something else for it; it was like seeing somebody in the street who you think is a friend, you whistle and wave and run after him, but it is not only not the friend, but not even very like him. A few minutes later the real friend appears in view, and then you can't imagine how you ever mistook that other person for him.

The fate of many men depended on the fate of this one. And this one I could help

What kind of ministry is that, just talking to people?" Criticism directed at Francis Schaeffer's plan to open an obscure spot in the Swiss Alps to those who came with questions.

An undefined "mysticism with nobody there" is not enough. It does not fill the hunger in the human heart for connection with a personal God who knows and loves us.

Christianity is the key that fits the lock of the universe.

Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward, edited by Isaac Metzker.)

He didn't move back to allow me to walk by him, and so I had to brush heavily against him on my way out the door. I felt as if my body were metal to his magnet, and I had literally to pull away from him.

The most complete and intimate physical union is meant to express the most complete and intimate personal union of marriage.

Why do idols invariably lead to destructive behavior? What is the connection? The link is that idols always lead to a lower view of human life.

I love you so very much I don't even mind that life made me wait so long to find you. The waiting only made the finding sweeter.

Inrealized how valuable the art and practice of writing letters are, and how important it is to remind people of what a treasure letters--handwritten letters--can be. In our throwaway era of quick phone calls, faxes, and email, it's all to easy never to find the time to write letters. That's a great pity--for historians and the rest of us.

Can you think of anything that would protect you?" "My father's eyes." "Can you see his eyes?" "Yes." "What do they look like?" "They look like they adore me.

I didn't understand the experience of receiving empathy, or that I could even successfully seek empathy.

I never really knew her," I said. "But you loved her," Ida answered, and again I wasn't sure if she meant that as an accusation or comfort. Was it less important or more important to know someone than to love them?

American spiritualism, -- a movement that at its peak claimed more than a million followers -- was born out of the basic human longing for contact with a loved one lost to death.

Like the threads of finely woven linen, the warp and woof of friendship uniting the Warrens and Adams through successive generations was once again seamlessly bound.

Living virtuously is how we live well with others. Seneca's claim is that social fellowship is finely textured, a matter of noticing a furrowed brow, an air of arrogance, a groan, hesitation, or on the positive side, the warmth of a smile or a shared laugh.