Quotes about Connection
To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where we no longer have to give thanks for being the person we are.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
This is what it means to create: not to make something out of nothing, but to make order out of chaos. A creative scientist or historian does not make up facts but orders facts; he sees connections between them rather than seeing them as random data. A creative writer does not make up new words but arranges familiar words in patterns which say something fresh to us.
— Harold S. Kushner
If a person has known love, has felt and given love, that person's life has made a difference.
— Harold S. Kushner
To be a husband or wife, to be a parent, is inevitably to be aware of so many disappointing, exasperating things about your mate or child, but at the same time to see those people in depth, to see them with both eyes, and to be reminded of why you still love them.
— Harold S. Kushner
More than any other human problem, loneliness, the absence of meaningful human connection, drains the joy and the sense of purpose from our lives.
— Harold S. Kushner
We need other people, and we need to be needed by other people, in order to be who we might be, who we yearn to be.
— Harold S. Kushner
Both love and true friendship are more than a way of knowing that we matter to someone else. They are a way of mattering to the world, bringing God into a world that would otherwise be a vale of selfishness and loneliness.
— Harold S. Kushner
One of the basic needs of every human being is the need to be loved, to have our wishes and feelings taken seriously, to be validated as people who matter.
— Harold S. Kushner
That is why we have to make room in our lives for people who may sometimes disappoint or exasperate us. If we hold our friends to a standard of perfection, or if they do that to us, we will end up far lonelier than we want to be.
— Harold S. Kushner
We cannot live without the knowledge that someone cares about us.
— Harold S. Kushner
Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.
— LeBron James
Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved we love to love.
— Leo Buscaglia