Quotes About Connection

People connect with me just as a cool, around-the-way type of guy.

I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.

All I want from you is to trust me with what little you can, and grow in loving people around you with the same love I share with you. It's not your job to change them, or to convince them. You are free to love without an agenda.

...if anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes; with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished and nothing will be the same again.

I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.

Dieses Lächeln sympathisierte in einer Weise mit mir, dass ich nicht anders konnte, als mit diesem Lächeln zu sympathisieren. Aber Sympathisieren wäre vielleicht noch in Ordnung gewesen. Mein Leben wäre normal weitergegangen, wenn ich nur sympathisiert hätte. Wenn ich mich nicht augenblicklich um den Verstand verliebt hätte.

Es gibt kaum eine bessere Möglichkeit, einen Menschen wirklich kennen zu lernen, als ihn zu überraschen.

Theaters are always going to be around, and doing fine. With computers and technology, we're becoming more and more secluded from each other. And the movie theater is one of the last places where we can still gather and experience something together. I don't think the desire for that magic will ever go away.

For me, I don't expect to have a really amazing meal each time I dine out. Having a good meal with your loved ones - that's what makes the experience.

What links the peoples of the world together is no longer the rule of civilization or the interplay of demand and supply, but their shared dependence on biophysical life-support systems

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

No man can rationally live, worship, or love his neighbour on an empty stomach.

If a dog will not come to you after he has looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience."~

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.

Sex between a man and a woman can be absolutely wonderful - provided you get between the right man and the right woman.

Sex relieves tension - love causes it.

Sex is like having dinner: sometimes you joke about the dishes, sometimes you take the meal seriously.

Sex is better than talk. Ask anybody in this bar. Talk is what you suffer through so you can get to sex.