Quotes About Connection

The garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature.

Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

I would be utterly emabarrassed to have others around me hear my half of what can only be described as pedestrian. "Yes, the elevator has just pulled up to the 16th floor." Do these people have the ability to go, for say, an eight- or ten-minute stretch without being in contact with someone else? What are they afraid of? Confronting their own thoughts?

Never frown. You never know who is falling in love with your smile

Because I love you.

Stop thinking your way through life, always trying to work it out before living it. Life is to be lived, not analyzed to death. Feel

The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on this earth. – Thich Nhat Hanh

It's nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way.

No one listening [to Jones' sermons], even those who were the most devoted to him, could take it all in. But at some point each follower heard something that reaffirmed his or her personal reason for belonging to Peoples Temple, and for believing in Jim Jones. As Jonestown historian Fielding McGehee observes, "What you thought Jim said depended on who you were.

Much of history results from apparently unrelated dominoes tumbling one over another.

It was impossible, at that time, to reach much of Florida's west coast except by rickety train across the northern part of the state and then south by boat. No roads linked the coasts in mid- or lower-state. The vast Everglades formed a natural, forbidding barrier.

It's not the value of the gift, but the philosophy of the giving and receiving," Francis replied. "It's a hard world, all in all, and to receive a present means someone else cares for you, that you're not alone.

The number one question customers are asking about a business is, 'Do they care about me?

You thinks there's this thing between us, but there never was, and there never will be. - Amy Cahill

Friendship, in this community, was simple: it meant being there. Friendship necessitated no pride, no projection of having your shit together if you didn't, no passivity, no judgment—and especially no fronting, which had characterized so many relationships at Yale. Friendship here was the most dependable means by which they were going to get through their various lives.

A poetry professor had once defined romance to me as "bringing two people together when every force in the universe is working to keep them apart.

Rob was always trying to get inside these people, figure them out, learn their problems, provide solutions.

He wanted to instill that sociability in his son; he believed that being curious about people was one of the few crucial life skills that could be fully nurtured in a place like East Orange.

Our collective information regarding his death was still limited, which brought forward the sadder fact that, at the end of it all, none of us had actually known Rob as well as we thought we did, as well as we should have, as well as—with just a little more effort—we could have.

In that house, Rob read. Rather, Jackie read to him, but she felt as if he were reading along with her. With the opening of a book, a shift occurred in his eyes and he nestled an inch deeper into her lap while angling his chin upward, and he seemed to age a year or two. Not a reader herself, Jackie went to the local library for the first time and pulled the popular titles: the Berenstain Bears, Richard Scarry wordbooks, Dr. Seuss, Eric Carle.

We become part of what we are around.

We become part of what we are around. — Unknown

Good friends are good for your health. — Dr. Irwin Sarason

God is not an object to be viewed but a Person to be experienced.