Quotes About Connection

Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.

Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings.

Maybe, it's not the distance that's the problem, but how you handle it.

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future.

Cats are our last best chance to have a dysfunctional relationship.

No matter how much you know a human being, you don't know him enough.

So many people have that relationship. The companionship. The connection. To our - to other beings, our pets. I hate to call them pets. But you know, to other creatures that we share our lives with.

Straight men just can't imagine the bliss of being in a relationship with someone who finds farting as funny as they do.

In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.

I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life - the relationship between parent and child.

I try to date, but I take it so seriously. I am bad at having a casual relationship, so I kind of don't.

It takes discipline and compassion to awaken the divine in ourselves long enough to recognize the divine in another.

We had to be parents by long distance, which is far from satisfactory.

Sometimes you only need to have a few words with a person to know you would like to have many more.

Nothing is more cheerful than talking about our friends' shortcomings.

Interdependence is a higher value than independence

If you cultivate a relationship in a genuine, thoughtful way, people will be more inclined to want to help you even though they don't have to help you.

The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.

A permanent relationship is dependent on particular purpose or wealth.

Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.

There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.

Maybe that was the price of loving someone: you lost your grasp of where they ended and you began.

My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby.

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.