Quotes About Connection

For all it's problems and difficulties, life is mostly a wonderful experience, and it is up to each person to make the most of each day. I hope you are successful in your life, but look to the heavens and the earth and especially to other people to find your real wealth. Wherever I am, wherever you go, know that my love goes with you.

I remove my wedding rings and put them in the jewelry box. So many others have done this. I am not the only one. I am not the only one. But here, I am the only one.

I got tears in my eyes, but they were not the crying kind, they were just the kind that show you your body agrees so much with what your mind just said.

When you take the small roads you see the life that goes on there, and this makes your own life larger.

People who don't feel cared for are not always comfortable being cared for.

I think, actually, that none of us understands anyone else very well, because we're all too shy to show what matters the most. If you ask me, it's a major design flaw. We ought to be able to say, Here, look what I am. I think it would be quite a relief.

I thought of the priest who'd told me that many religions hold that it is easier to be closely connected to people we love after death than before.

Remember me in your dreams, as I will you.

You must never check for a person's pulse using your thumb, or you'll feel your own heartbeat. Actually, I plan on doing that if I'm the one who's here when Ruth dies. I plan on giving her my heartbeat before I let her go.

Good weather will do this to people, bond them in their gratefulness.

I am in agreement with Goethe, who said that every day one ought to ´´hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.´´ I would add to this the need to love. Without it, the rest is dust.´´

The truth is, we usually only show our unhappiness to another woman. I suppose this is one of our problems. And yet it is also one of our strengths.

There are moments when we think nature happens just for us, and there are other moments when the ridiculousness of that notion is revealed.

The person with the bleeding finger doesn't hurt less for the person next to him with the bleeding arm.

Sometimes it seems like a little moment brings a whole world with it.

I don't think it's foolish. I don't think love is ever foolish.

Funny how an animal can hurt your feelings when you're all alone.

Nothing will brings lovers closer together than people trying to keep them apart.

what John likes best are the small and undramatic moments that make for a kind of easy comfort, for a feeling of being grounded in a relationship.

real love is when the other person is your best friend and you shouldn't have to work hard around them, it should be, like, more natural, and you just want to be with them even if you're not doing anything.

There are certain things in your life that will become every important to you. You might not be able to explain to anyone else why they're important. But you will expect the people who love you, the people who are your family, to respect those things.

What mattered was that at the end, someone who loved her sat by her, saying, I see you. I

I used to make a basket of my hands to hold a feeling of joy that came upon me, then flatten my hands against my chest as if to make it part of me. Not understanding that it already was.

What mattered was that at the end, someone who loved her sat by her, saying, I see you.