Quotes about Connection
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
— Henri Nouwen
A friend is a hand that is always holding yours, no matter how close or far apart you may be. A friend is someone who is always there and will always, always care. A friend is a feeling of forever in the heart.
— Henri Nouwen
Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with.
— Mark Twain
For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.
— Stephanie Perkins
It's man's sympathy, with all Gods creatures, that makes him truly a man.
— Albert Einstein
In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.
— George Eliot
A good death is a death in solidarity with others. To prepare ourselves for a good death, we must develop or deepen this sense of solidarity.
— Henri Nouwen
That 'simple desire' to share something meant that we could enter the world of language without words, where everything is always clear and there is no danger of being misinterpreted.
— Paulo Coelho
The desire to reach hearts is wise
— Maya Angelou
It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.
— St. Augustine
Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.
— Paulo Coelho