Quotes About Connection

The courage to teach is the courage to keep one's heart open in those very moments when the heart is asked to hold more than it is able so that teacher and students and subjects can be woven into the community that learning, and living, require.

When the gift I give to the other is integral to my own nature, when it comes from a place of organic reality within me, it will renew itself-and me-even as I give it away.

My core religious beliefs include this simple article of faith: the God who gave all of us life wants us to do the same for each other.

Paradoxical thinking requires that we embrace a view of the world in which opposites are joined, so that we can see the world clearly and see it whole...The result is a world more complex and confusing than the one made simple by either-or thought - but that simplicity is merely the dullness of death. When we think together we reclaim the life force in the world, in our students, in ourselves.

My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.

Make no mistake about it: emotional intimacy in marriage is one of the single most important wellsprings of happiness a couple can ever find.

people may not notes the smallest things. but with out the smallest of things like kindness. we would all know

C'est étrange, se disait-il, que l'on aime les gens, qu'ils disparaissent, et que l'on continue à les aimer, mais dans sa tête, pour soi, sans le leur dire. Comme si le fait de ne plus être en contact n'enlevait rien à leur présence.

Ces marques de vieillesse le rapprochaient d'elle ou de son état. Son cœur battait à rompre par la joie qu'il éprouvait et ses mains tremblaient.

Il vivait un amour que rien ne diminuait. Il lui semblait que c'était le même amour, le même abandon, la même nuit, le même froid.

A quién más quiero? En este momento de mi vida, sólo te quiero a ti. Esto es lo que hay.

I like to tell women to seek out the "puzzle" and the "gem" within the man. The puzzle is, "What makes this person tick? Do I like it?" The gem is, "What is this person's gift? Humor? Honesty? Intelligence?

A relationship with our imagination is a relationship with our deepest self.

Drawing things is a kind of lovemaking, so the subject should be chosen carefully.

It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.

O casamento é ou pode ser maravilhoso... isto é, quando duas pessoas se amam. Mas às vezes é difícil saber como falar de amor. - Sim, é muito difícil falar de amor. - De vez em quando, porém, é necessário falar. Todo o futuro de uma pessoa talvez dependa disto. - Do amor? - Ou de falar de amor.

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

What a name – Pyotr Frankis. I wondered who had made it up for him. Pyotr Frankis, Jascha – Slavs all over the place, it would seem. Just like my great-grandmother. I felt for her in my mind about the same way you'd feel for a stray piece of food in your mouth with your tongue, but as usual, I had no sense of her beyond a particularly intense memory.

My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.

We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us.

I love you. I worry about you. I wonder whether I tell you enough how I love you and want you and need you and how I am diminished . . . when you are not with me and how I am multiplied when you are here.

The biggest problem with communication is the assumption that it has taken place.

Therefore, we need to choose the right medium for our message, remembering that face-to-face communication is the richest form because we can draw on the resources of words, body language, voice, or even the physical arena itself to deliver our ideas. At the same time, we can receive a constant update on how the audience is receiving our message and can make midcourse corrections if we're going astray.

George Bernard Shaw summed it up well when he observed that the biggest problem with communication is the assumption that it has taken place.