Connection Quotes

Be mindful at all times of the following: the nature of the whole universe, the nature of the part that is me, the relation of the one to the other, the one so vast, the other so small.

For my own part, I commonly attend more to nature than to man, but any affecting human event may blind our eyes to natural objects. I was so absorbed in him as to be surprised whenever I detected the routine of the natural world surviving still, or met persons going about their affairs indifferent.

To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.

There is a window from one heart to another heart.

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

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

Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.

I love you now as I write this, and I love you now as you read this

I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse.

There is seemingly so little love shared in this world, it is not surprising that we ask, "Where have all the lovers gone?" Since love is the most vital energy for good that is within our power to utilize, it is puzzling why we so seldom do so. Love is just a useless, abstract idea until we put it into action...unless we are always actively living in love, we are not utilizing the greatest gift we have been given and which we, in turn, have to offer.

I've always been a hugger. If we all hugged more, the world would be a better place :)

I love Shillington not as one loves Capri or New York, because they are special, but as one loves one's own body and consciousness, because they are synonymous with being.

What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.

For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a shrub oak.

Over at our place, we’re sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don’t think of grown-ups, and we don’t think of children. But just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us, that maybe the world has made us forget.

Gaze up at the stars knowing that I see the same sky and wish the same sweet dreams.

If the world is meaningless, then so are we; if we mean something, we do not mean alone.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

Happiness is a chance to talk to a friend, to hear good music, to have a good glass of wine. Happiness is a chance to be myself and to find people with whom I agree or who I don't agree but I can learn something.

To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.

A simple smile. That's the start ofopening your heart and beingcompassionate to others.

On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.

The more contact we have with one another and the more we come to understand each other's values, the greater will be our mutual respect.

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.

A genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, they're nothing but tiny lights. And for still others, for scholars, they're problems... But all those stars are silent stars. You, though, you'll have stars like nobody else... since I'll be laughing on one of them, for you it'll be as if all the stars are laughing. You'll have stars that can laugh!... and it'll be as if I had given you, instead of stars, a lot of tiny bells that know how to laugh.

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit. The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of his best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood.

I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'

There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.

Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.

The reason I take pride for that is one of the things you worry about when you're in the bubble, and there's all this pomp and circumstance and hail to the chief is, do you lose touch with what you thought was important and what brought you here? And I'm proud that I don't think I have lost touch.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.

Islands in the streams, that is what we are.

The whole world changes when there's presence - sunlight everywhere - because you're not separate from the world.

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.

It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.

My Friend is that one whom I can associate with my choicest thought.

Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.

Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.

How do I know who I am or where I am? How could a single wave locate itself in an ocean.

The best of life is conversation.

True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder.

This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children.

You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.

I have already reached out to the janata, and I am only trying to acquaint myself with people's problems.

And for the briefest instant, it almost feels like we're together again.

We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

Through it all nobody gets me like you do.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.

The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity.

What you lose as you age is witnesses, the ones that watched from early on and cared, like your own little grandstand.

Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.