Quotes About Connection

What I loved most about our family was that we could all speak our hearts. We never measured words.

Connection with gardens, even small ones, even potted plants, can become windows to the inner life. The simple act of stopping and looking at the beauty around us can be prayer.

Get close enough to someone and his or her halo slips--not because they're bad, but because they're mortal.

When you help folks solve their problems, don't be surprised if you solve your own.

I told her that saying goodbye didn't matter, not a bit. What mattered were all the days you were together before that, all the things you remembered.

If someone looks into your eyes, I read in a book one time, he'll see right into your soul. I didn't want anyone to see into my soul.

There are some people who don't even know enough to fall in love with the water.

You are the heart of this family," she said, "with your songs.

Right here at our doorstep, we'll have the most beautiful bridge in the world.

Think of me when you're not sure of something, Nory." Her face was serious, her big eyes holding me. "Know that I'll be there on the other side of the water. Think of what I'd say, what I'd do.

I did not have any magnificent jewels to give you, but I hoped you would understand that I would give you the world if I could.

Don't you dare cry. If you do, then I shall, and I refuse to allow it.

He said you were frigid?" She nodded. "Oh, honey, that word should be stricken from every dictionary in existence. There is no such thing. Just men who don't know what they're doing." He leaned toward her, kissed her throat, and said, "I'm not one of them.

Everyone's got beautiful eyes.

The practice of improvisation (in contrast, say, to that of writing or painting) teaches something that we are hungry to understand: how to be in harmony with one another and how to have fun. We practice improvisation not only to "express ourselves" but to connect with others in a more immediate way.

Keep the gift moving forward.

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With upwards of a million people attending, give yourself over to the crowd and join a massive 100,000-strong conga line like the one that set the world's record in 1988.

Katharine: I can't keep up with you! Tom: I don't want you to keep up. I love you for yourself. - Death on the Family Tree

Children who are not loved themselves often find it difficult to love others.

They lay together like a word and a comma, asleep within an unfinished sentence.

You cannot know how many other miracles one sole miracle begets. She was not a savior. She did not confer salvation. She said we were to be the saviors. She said we know God only through each other. That God is not in us, but between us. That we deliver God to each other, like a flame passed from cupped hand to cupped hand. We bring God to life in each other.

What you do and what you are gradually become the same thing, and are identical when you die. And what you have done to another person becomes a part of your substance as surely as a fruit you have eaten.

there are no separate lives; each life and individual character exists in relation to every other life: dead, living, yet to live.