Quotes About Connection

Wie faßten wir uns an — an mit diesen Händen?

Ich kenne dich, du bist die tief Gebeugte, ich, der Durchbohrte, bin dir untertan. Wo flammt ein Wort, das für uns beide zeugte? Du—ganz, ganz wirklich. Ich—ganz Wahn.)

Von der sinkenden Walstirn les ich dich ab – du erkennst mich, der Himmel stürzt sich in die Harpune, sechsbeinig hockt unser Stern im Schaum, langsam hißt einer, der's sieht, den Trosthappen: das balzende Nichts.

I am a consciousness. The landscape thinks itself through me.

At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered.

I have learned through years of sales and consulting that there are two types of relationships: superficial and substantive.

The second type of relationship is the substantive relationship, which is characterized by mutual benefit.

The distinguished psychologist Martin Seligman has conducted a sustained programme of research on the attainment of well-being. His conclusion is unambiguous: 'If you want well-being, you will not get it if you only care about accomplishment . . . Close personal relationships are not everything in life, but they are central.'14

Any conditioned cat-hater can be won over by any cat who chooses to make the effort.

Any conditioned cat-hater can be won over by any cat who chooses to make the effort. Only an unregenerate ailurophobe can't be reached. I'd say he's really sick.

Why did he pick me? There were five other laps present, all of them more friendly than mine. It's that sort of coincidental behavior of cats that upsets people. It raises the question: did he know I was the guy who had to be won over? But won over to what?

But false niceness can never and will never produce an authentic, deeply meaningful relationship, just like weeds won't magically produce zinnias.

You need to create an emotional bond with people over security, make it resonate with them,You need to talk in a language they understand, whether that be risk, revenue, compliance, the impact on them personally – whatever it is, you need to make that connection

A happy and healthy child is one who is loved without reservation and understood without judgment. But to fully understand, accept, and appreciate our child's uniqueness, we must first come to know who he or she really is. Discovering our child's inborn and innate personality is the first, crucial step.

Personal ministry is not about always knowing what to say. It is not about fixing everything in sight that is broken. Personal ministry is about connecting people with Christ so that they are able to think as he would have them think, desire what he says is best, and do what he calls them to do even if their circumstances never get "fixed." It involves exposing hurt, lost, and confused people to God's glory, so that they give up their pursuit of their own glory and live for his.

True humanity is always connected to glory, and true glory can only be found in the One who is glory, the Lord.

There is woven inside each of us a desire for something more—a craving to be part of something bigger, greater, and more profound than our relatively meaningless day-by-day existence.

You could say that the advice here is to connect everything you require of your children in behavior and belief to the story of redemption.

We simply weren't constructed to live only for ourselves. We were placed on earth to be part of something bigger than the narrow borders of our own survival and our own little definition of happiness. The desire resides in each of us, and it is called transcendence. To transcend is to be part of something greater. We were created to be part of something so big, so glorious, so far beyond the ordinary that it would totally change the way we approach every ordinary thing in our lives.

Your biggest need (and mine) is a fully restored relationship with God.

God designed us to live in community, first with him and then with one another.

Here it is: a marriage of love, unity, and understanding is not rooted in romance; it is rooted in worship.

Horizontal awe is meant to do one thing: stimulate vertical

Peace comes when you rest in the fact that grace has connected you to the One who has overcome everything that could cause your heart to be troubled, and nothing can sever that connection.