Quotes About Connection

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.

As Anthony Thiselton puts it, "The opposite of love is not correction but indifference.

This view of a living nature where man is nothing is both odd and sad. Here, in a fertile land, in an eternal greenness, you search in vain for traces of man; you feel you are carried into a different world from the one you were born into.

In considering the study of physical phenomena, not merely in its bearings on the material wants of life, but in its general influence on the intellectual advancement of mankind, we find its noblest and most important result to be a knowledge of the chain of connection, by which all natural forces are linked together, and made mutually dependent upon each other; and it is the perception of these relations that exalts our views and ennobles our enjoyments.

People who are careless of the land and of the creatures and spirits with which we share it are careless of themselves.

If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That's what I did. I got caught.

A family is like medicine." She twisted her lips into a sardonic smile. "Best in small doses.

Families... Could not live with them, could not turn them into toads.

To keep a journal is to learn how to play. Deeply. Even when a page is recording hard, impossible things, if judgment is suspended, there's always a surprise or shift. Connections made over time suddenly link, opening and transforming.

The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.

when you decide you want to be with someone forever, you want forever to start right now.

Forget men, I want to marry my MacBook. It's dependable, reliable and you can even go shopping with it.

Too many people miss out on real love because they're too busy waiting for the ONE to show up

For a split second they stared at each other. A fleeting, lasting moment. One person noticing another person out of a whole crowd of strangers.

Their eyes met. It had begun. They had begun.

Because you will meet somebody more exceptional than anyone you have ever know. Who will love you warmly as possible. And who will so completely attract you that you will feel you never really loved before.

Books might be your passion but you can't fuck a paperback.

If only men were like New York taxi-cabs and had a light that they can switch on when they're interested and off when they're not available. Then you'd know exactly where you were and you wouldn't have to worry about getting it wrong and being horribly embarrassed. --- Lucy

You can't make yourself fall in love, just as you can't choose who you fall in love with.

It wasn't just the big romantic gestures that made a relationship, it was all the little things.

if you love someone your heart will always remember them. Even if the mind doesn't, the heart never forgets.

she'd been in a hermetically sealed bubble. A " couple bubble" that made the rest of the male species invisible.

She watched him in the glow of the lamplight, his broad shoulders hunched over the piano, his hair flopping over his face, and knew she couldn't fight her feelings for him any longer. Denying him wasn't going to make them go away. And looking at him right at this moment, she didn't want them to.