Connection Quotes

My fear of being real, of being seen, paralyzes me into silence. I crave the touch and the connection, but I’m not always brave enough to open my hand and reach out. This is the great challenge: to be seen, accepted, and loved, I must first reveal, offer, and surrender.

~ Anna White

I'm not trying to bleed you. I want to renew you.

~ W.p. Kinsella

The spiritual and the physical had been blended in us with a perfection that must remain incomprehensible to the matter-of-fact, crude, standard-brained youngsters of today. Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine. Long before we met we had had the same dreams.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

He was like the other half of myself,' says Boris...Ulrich says, 'You haven't lost {him}, you know. I don't know if it helps to say that. I lost a friend once myself, and I know how it goes.'He'll find his way inside you, and you'll carry him onward. Behind your heartbeat, you'll hear another one, faint and out of step. People will say you are speaking his opinons, or your hair has turned like his.'There are no more facts about him -- that part is over. Now is the time for essential things...Gradually you'll grow older than him, and love him as your son.'You'll live astride the line that separates life from death. You'll become experienced in the wisdom of grief. You won't wait until people die to grieve for them; you'll give them their grief while they are still alive, for then judgment falls away, and there remains only the miracle of being.

~ Rana Dasgupta

Life's journey is one big path with series of events. All these events are connected.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To claim to understand, is a statement that only your imagination could conceive.

~ R.w. Erskine

A fixation with connecting with 'friends' online comes with the risk of disconnection with friends waiting for you to be present in the offline world.

~ Craig Hodges

Your dreams get perfect assistant if it goes connecting with great people.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Develop accommodating values and habits. People are scared away from you when you have a value system and habitual actions that accommodate them comfortably.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Refuse to be isolated. Your accomplishments are patronized by people who would get interest in them. When you don’t get connected, how will you get to know those people?

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You’re impossible.” I sighed. “And really weird. No wonder Jared likes you.”“Is that a good thing or not?”I shrugged. “You two have bittersweet panty-dropping connection.”“Gross.

~ Rea Lidde

Isn't friendship amazing? At one time, our friends were just strangers to us. However, there was something special about these strangers; you felt a connection, something in common, a special bond, and your friendship began. What if, as we pass all of the ‘strangers’ in our lives, if we looked at these strangers as if they could be a friend? What a different world it would be….

~ James A. Murphy

Holding myself to perfectionistic standards, I used to think I had to become lifelong friends with everyone who entered my life. This was exhausting, and I now know it’s not true. I believe the old saying that people come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime.” (127)

~ Jenni Schaefer

They seek each other out, these people of such specific like mind. They tell of how they found the circus, how those first few steps were like magic.

~ Erin Morgenstern

You can't judge people and touch their souls at the same time.

~ Tama Kieves

The more you engage and connect, the more engagement and connections you will have.

~ Loren Weisman

Understand that you can’t achieve your dreams if you don’t connect with people who guide you to improve on upon the skills you have.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The kind of dreams you have determines the kind of people to get connected to.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I never saw this coming - the little house was working its magic, connecting me to people and materials I never would have guessed would find their way into the picture.

~ Dee Williams

As long as we don't cut off our hearts, the inner workings of the universe illuminate before us.

~ Rivera Sun

Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. (attr to J. Isham)

~ Sura Hart

When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do.

~ Rachel Naomi Remen

Instead of seeing how much pain I can dish out towards those I disagree with, or who I believe have done me wrong, I seek to follow the golden rule and use my words and behavior to create more of what the world needs – love, compassion, and connection.

~ Aspen Baker

Human beings have a deep need to bond and form connections. If we can’t connect with each other, we will connect with whatever we can find … It is disconnection that drives addiction.

~ Christopher Kennedy Lawford

When you judge yourself for needing help, you judge those you are helping. When you attach value to giving help, you attach value to needing help. The danger of tying your self-worth to being a helper is feeling shame when you have to ask for help. Offering help is courageous and compassionate, but so is asking for help.

~ Brené Brown

Jesus never says to the poor: ‘come find the church’, but he says to those of us in the church: ‘go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.

~ Tony Campolo

Despite our instinct to polarize ourselves in the name of survival, an indescribable connection - call it love or compassion - pervades and dissolves our apparent separation. This oneness transcends physical and emotional relationships; it's a deep connection that surfaces only when the ego-laden barriers are lifted.

~ Rajeev Kurapati

There are people who have the capacity to imagine themselves as someone else, there are people who have no such capacity (when the lack is extreme, we call them psychopaths), and there are people who have the capacity but choose not to exercise it.

~ J.m. Coetzee

Travel opens us up, exposes us to new people and places. New thoughts, new ways of being and a larger feeling of connection. And, the best part is, that it makes us appreciate our home that much more.

~ Erin Kouvas

When a friend suddenly comes to mind for no apparent reason, he said it’s because they are near to us in thought or spirit. He explained that a connection takes place on the thought waves that run between us. Thoughts are things that can reach out and touch us.

~ Kate Mcgahan

Once you achieve self intimacy & self-connection, success, peace & wealth is not far from you.

~ Vishwas Chavan

He liked the electric darkness and the hot dirty air and the blasts of noise and traffic and the manic barking sirens and the crush of people. It helped a lonely man feel connected and isolated both at the same time.

~ Lee Child

Maybe we’re all a how are you away from not feeling so alone in all of this today.

~ Hannah Brencher

People want to be loved, failing that admired, failing that feared, failing that hated and despised. They want to evoke some sort of sentiment. The soul shudders before oblivion and seeks connection at any price.

~ Hjalmar Söderberg

Sometimes I felt lonely because I pushed people away for so long that I honestly didn’t have many close connections left. I was physically isolated and disconnected from the world. Sometimes I felt lonely in a crowded room. This kind of loneliness pierced my soul and ached to the core. I not only felt disconnected from the world, but I also felt like no one ever loved me. Intellectually, I knew that people did, but I still felt that way.

~ Jenni Schaefer

Can I be honest with you, Mr. Wind-Up Bird? I mean, really, really, really honest? Sometimes I get sooo scared! I’ll wake up in the middle of the night all alone, hundreds of miles away from anybody, and it’s pitch dark, and I have absolutely no idea what’s going to happen to me in the future, and I get so scared I want to scream. Does that happen to you, Mr. Wind-Up Bird? When it happens, I try to remind myself that I am connected to others—other things and other people. I work as hard as I can to list their names in my head. On that list, of course, is you, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. And the alley, and the well, and the persimmon tree, and that kind of thing. And the wigs that I’ve made here with my own hands. And the little bits and pieces I remember about the boy. All these little things (though you’re not just another one of those little things, Mr. Wind-Up Bird, but anyhow…) help me to come back “here” little by little.

~ Haruki Murakami

She was drawn to the wild warriors, they had to have a little gypsy in their veins.

~ Nikki Rowe

I could tell he was just as scared to love as I, But we still both carelessly climbed into eachothers arms and before we knew it, love had found us.

~ Nikki Rowe

The possibility to love another scared me; terrified me actually. Being a free spirit, apart of me is most alive when roaming, than I became a mother and for the first time I felt my heart live outside my body and that's the moment his laughter became my medicine.

~ Nikki Rowe

By connecting and being part of a community with a shared vision and goals, we can create great things.

~ David J. Greer