Quotes About Connections

To take the tops off all the houses and mingle our miseries was too simple a solution, I knew. Houses had windows with shades. Yards had gates and fences. There were carefully planned out sidewalks and roads, and these were the paths that, if you chose to go into someone else's reality, you had to be willing to walk. There were no shortcuts.

Esos eran los queridos huesos que habían crecido en mi ausencia, las conexiones a veces tenues y a veces hechas con grandes sacrificios, pero a menudo magníficas que habían nacido después de mi desaparición y empecé a ver las cosas de una manera que permitía abrazar al mundo sin estar en él.

These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it.

What is always needed in the appreciation of art, or life, is the larger perspective. Connections made, or at least attempted, where none existed before, the straining to encompass in one's glance at the varied world the common thread, the unifying theme through immense diversity, a fearlessness of growth, of search, of looking, that enlarges the private and the public world. And yet, in our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins

When you say no to the wrong people, it opens up the space for the right people to come in.

So when we repeat a thought or an experience enough times, our brain cells make not only stronger connections between each other (which affects our physiological functions), but also a greater number of total connections (which affects the physical structure of the body). The brain becomes more enriched microscopically.

There are no answers, only cross-references.

A reading life... is an adventure without maps where you meet unexpected soulmates along the way.

Who you associate with makes a difference in how far you go in life.

God will always bring the right people into your life, but you have to let the wrong people walk away.

You don't need everyone to be for you; you just need the right people to be for you. God has already ordained divine connections that will help you fulfill your purpose.

When you do, you realize there are six billion people wandering around, six billion chances to form connections, friendships, shared experiences." He shrugged. "If you shut yourself away from everyone and say 'I'm lonely', it doesn't make a whole lot of sense, when the rest of the world is waiting outside that door.

What if depression is, in fact, a form of grief—for our own lives not being as they should? What if it is a form of grief for the connections we have lost, yet still need?

Second, when your mind wanders, it starts to make new connections between things—which often produces solutions to your problems.

I was beginning to think there was something significant about the fact that grief and depression have identical symptoms. Then one day, after interviewing several depressed people, I asked myself: What if depression is, in fact, a form of grief—for our own lives not being as they should? What if it is a form of grief for the connections we have lost, yet still need?

When we sleep, our minds start to identify connections and patterns from what we've experienced during the day. This is one of the key sources of our creativity—it's why narcoleptic people, who sleep a lot, are significantly more creative.

a form of grief—for our own lives not being as they should? What if it is a form of grief for the connections we have lost, yet still need?

Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look round.

Life is short and experiences with remarkable people are rare.

In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny.

I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.

I think the people we meet in life and the loves of our lives are very, very important in what we become, like change us - when it's right, probably change us for the best.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.