Quotes about Connection

Identity does not grow out of action until it has taken root in belonging.

Stripped bare, the human soul has one real desire: to know and be known.

Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes. This... is goodbye. But not our last hello.

if anything in this universe reflects the fingerprint of God, it is the human heart.

The only true language in the world is a kiss... When the pleasure is simple and complete... in the offering.

All hearts have but one request. One simple, unspoken, undeniable need... To be known.

Music cuts people free." A pause. "It silences the thing that's trying to kill us.

It was often what Charlie didn't say that spoke the loudest.

You believe in things you cannot see and speak a language that only hearts know.

Girls need their father. Period. And I couldn't really tell you why other than it's the father who tells them who they are. Until he does, they're just floating in the earth like that tooth. Buried in some trash mound. Waiting to be discovered by somebody with a shovel who won't crack it or crush it. [Murphy Shepherd]

In my experience, it's those words on the tip of the tongue that we most need to hear. They are the key. The thing that's missing. But you can't pull them out. They have to be offered. Freely. And they won't be offered until the owner trusts you with them. And to do that means they've got to break through a world of hurt and pain just to get them out of their mouth. I caught my reflection in the mirror.

We don't love because people love us back. We love because we can. Because we were made to.