Quotes About Connection

See how her expression changes when she looks at you? It's the love light shining from within...Lucky we are when we're seen through the light of love, be it shining in the eyes of human or beast. Some folks go all their days without ever seeing it directed at them. It's a splendid, special look. Cherish it. - Mr. Morrison, Humane Society volunteer

We want desperately to believe that every mother falls in love with her baby at first sight and that the complexity of relationships, so evident elsewhere as part of the human condition, is totally absent from the connection between mother and child.

The mother's relationship to her daughter not only formed the earliest, if not primary, foundation for all the daughter formulates her sense of self, but is the basic template for her understanding of how relationships work in the world.

People don't care how much you know unless they know how much you care.

write for listeners as opposed to readers.

The words and phrases you use must not only be "hearable" by the audience, they must be

There is a great unseen circularity in life, and we are all interacting with the people we are supposed to help and be helped by.

Don't stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go to your baby a million times. Demonstrate that people can be trusted, that the environment can be trusted, that we live in a benign universe.

The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.

Encouraging girls to explore sexuality within mutually caring, emotionally connected relationships is one thing; insisting on it is another.

Life, like the trance we call Love, might begin with a look, a glance, an exchange between eyes

When adults read a book, they're two feet away; when children read it, they're right inside it.

I had a cat I could not see, Because it stayed in back of me. It was a very loyal pet- It's sad we never really met. I had a nice pet Who I never met, Remember it always stayed behind me. And I'm sure it was a cat, too.

He doesn't jingle my chimes.

I don't play solitaire. It seems so lonely, somehow.

She tilted her face to his, and he discovered that kissing her was something he didn't have to train for by reading a book. It came naturally.

To love and be loved is a wonder.

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.

We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.

All distances are the same to those who don't meet.

But we weren't meant to live alone,' said Frank. 'Life makes its own corrections.

human beings interested her so much that it must always be an advantage to meet another one.

In this great age of communication, there a lot of people you can't actually understand. I know everyone tweets, and twits and texts and all that, but actually we've all got voices, and it is awfully nice to hear them and if you can understand what people are saying.