Quotes About Connection

Friends are a weird thing. It seems like they know all about you, but then they don't understand you at all.

Maybe what I want is to cut all ties with everybody. The thread or something that keeps me connected to the world, the worthless proof that I exist.

The mountains, I become a part of it... The morning mists, the clouds, the gathering waters, I become a part of it.

The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.

Never underestimate your ability to affect the trajectory of another human life, especially at their lowest moment.

There is a proverb that says, 'Talk so that I may know who you are.' But I say, 'Show me your eyes and I will know who you are.

My heart faltered, overcome by its frightened, almost frenzied beating because of something I had just lost, or was on the point of losing for ever. My fingers grasped at his hand with such violence that no force in the world, no matter how great, could take it away from me.

Biarkan aku mati dalam pelukanmu dan jangan kausela aku.

I was on the point of losing, or had just lost, for ever. My fingers held on to her hand with such violence that no force on earth, no matter how great, could tear it away from me.

No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.

When we "pass by" others and "notice them not," a degree of deprivation occurs. (Mormon 8:39.)

One of the ways, therefore, we will be "proved herewith" is our determination as to whether or not we love others enough to give and to receive such vital communications. We may quickly say that communicating thusly with those close to us is difficult; indeed, it is, but with whom else is it really possible? Are not the people proximate to us our tiny portion of humanity, given to us by God as our social stewardship?

The most powerful bond we know of is the bond between mother and child, and we break it in order to make "comfort foods" for ourselves" Michael Schwarz

El hermano mayor se encuentra en una posición superior de juicio hacia los demás. Podemos encerrar a alguien en una prisión pensando: "Es así, nunca cambiará". Al etiquetar a los demás, nos damos una razón para retirarnos de la relación. Los muros de la prisión que construimos están edificados para protegernos.

My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There's no version of God that can help us if we ever lose that.

Getting to know someone in blind darkness changes your impression of them.

The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.

The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.

They describe the feeling of being online as a kind of anesthesia that eases the pain of everyday life.

People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.

Poetry has to do with the non-rational parts of man. For a poet, a human being is a mystery… this is a religious feeling. OCTAVIO PAZ

My view of "attraction," then, involves a high degree of overlap of their experience with a real person and the wished-for image in their heads.

Instead of bringing people to church so that we can then bring them to Christ, let's bring Christ to people where they live.