Quotes About Connection

Amber took charge, and ordered Tom to wheel her towards Sally. Then she handed her friend the flowers

Zoe wiped it away gently, as a tear dropped from her eye on to his cold pink nose.

It's extraordinary," muttered the professor. "There's a special connection between them." "Like me and me favourite mop," added Dotty.

most of all he wanted to tell them about the marvellous adventure he had shared with her,

As long as you love me, I can never die.

No one could replace Dad, but Winnie made him feel safe. And warm. And most importantly, loved.

nashin awa wi their een watterin. But naebody wis aw that freendly tae him. Naebody stapped for a blether.

A father's love was special; a black father's love was a blessing– I knew this because of how I felt about being able to experience my own father's love.

Effort showed that he wanted the relationship just as bad as she wanted it. Effort reminded a woman that she was not alone, and provided her with the fuel needed in order to match her man's strength. A woman couldn't match a man who couldn't show her what to match.

The Internet's abundant capacity has removed the old artificial constraints on publishing—including getting our content checked and verified. The new strategy of publishing everything we find out thus results in an immense cloud of data, free of theory, published before verified, and available to anyone with an Internet connection. And this is changing the role that facts have played as the foundation of knowledge.

My friends," he began, and one thumb securely hooked itself in his waistcoat pocket while his other hand hung at his side ready for a battery of theatrical gestures.

Poetry is language against which you have no defenses.

Beauty is the harvest of presence.

Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work; a future. To be courageous is not necessarily to go anywhere or do anything except to make conscious those things we already feel deeply and then to live through the unending vulnerabilities of those consequences.

we have so many allies in this world, including just the color blue in the sky

In real pain we have no other choice but to learn to ask for help and on a daily basis. Pain tells us we belong and cannot live forever alone or in isolation. Pain makes us understand reciprocation.

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. The kettle is singing even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots have left their arrogant aloofness and seen the good in you at last. All the birds and creatures of the world are unutterably themselves. Everything is waiting for you.

One day I will say the gift I once had has been taken, the place I have made for myself belongs to another, and the words I have sung are being sung by the ones I would want. Then I will be ready for that voice and the still silence in which it arrives. And if my faith is good then we'll meet again on the road and we'll be thirsty, and stop and laugh and drink together again from the deep well of things as they are. ...

What we love in other human beings is the hoped-for satisfaction of our desire, we do not love them for their desire. If what we loved in them was their desire, then we should love them as our self." When

Life can find you only if you are paying real attention to something other than you own concerns, if you can hear and see the essence of otherness in the world, if you can treat the world as if it is not just a backdrop to your own journey, if you can have a relationship with the world that isn't based on triumphing over it or complaining about it.

Poetry: Language against which we have no defences.

the lost sense that we play out our lives as part of a greater story

The marriage of work has everything to do with the romance of the everyday.

Work among all its abstracts, is actually intimacy, the place where the self meets the world.