Quotes About Connection

Human beings are built for connection — it's wired into the depths of our being, It's also complicated and multi-dimensional. This is why we're the healthiest and happiest when we're connected to a group of people rather then depending on a single person for all of our emotional and physical needs

My awareness of myself and my own issues enables me to relate to and feel compassion towards the vulnerability of being human. Its is the thing we share and it gives us a strong foundation to build upon.

People are attracted to authentic beauty that has a human rather than mannequin quality.

Perfect people are annoying and off-putting. We connect with people through their cracks. It's what makes them human and, ultimately, attractive.

Really focus on how the person makes you feel. Relationships should compliment you and support you and make you feel good about yourself so try to stay away from people who have a toxic effect on you.

The most attractive people are those who make others feel attractive. Attractiveness requires an other focus rather than a self-obsession.

The most significant and destructive characteristic of addictions is that they occur in isolation

We are emotionally and physically healthier when we are meaningfully engaged with other people. This means engaged with others in compassionate and altruistic ways.

We typically think we're going to find the perfect mate who's going to solve all our problems and make our life perfect and that is just unrealistic. We fall in love with human beings, and human being have cracks and we actually love people for their vulnerability.

We're genetically pulled to people who radiate warmth, honesty and compassion. We're repelled by external presentations of perfection…The perfection of others makes us feel inadequate.

Oxytocin, it seems, oils the wheels of social life, enhancing trust, generosity, empathy and loyalty.

But it was hard for Poetry to stay angry very long. Nearly everything anybody said or did reminded him of a poem.

Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.

It doesn't matter what you've got in your pants if there is nothing in your brain to connect it to.

Romance can be as simple as leaving a note on the refrigerator that says "I love you" or giving an unexpected hug. It can include heroic gestures like helping your partner do his taxes or scouring the tile in her skanky-looking shower or taking a whole day to organize a lover's Nightmare-on-Elm-Street closet.

I've had a lot of very positive feedback about those stories, and seem to have struck upon something that most people feel. I can also tap dance, and don't know many other authors who can.

Places ain't home. People is. Bricks and chairs is nothing.

He liked having the boy there beside him. Like some bright flame of life still burning bright beside the spent lamp of his own spirit.

When you're in love with someone, you want to talk about every single thing in existence with them- while simultaneously saying nothing and just enjoying their presence.

The truth on the subject is that communism and atheism are intrinsically related and that one cannot be a good Communist without being an atheist and every atheist is a potential Communist

History may not repeat itself but, as Mark Twain said, it does rhyme.

The joy of reading with our children doesn't stop as they, and we, get older; it simply changes.

then traced a fingertip across his forehead, around one eye, along the length of his nose. As if she wanted to later draw his likeness.

Lately she'd been charting Bobby's moods like a meteorologist watching tropical storms. Something was bothering him, and he wasn't talking.