Quotes about Connection

Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Human relationships, like life itself, can never remain static. They grow or they diminish. But, in either case, they change. Our emotional interests, our intellectual pursuits, our personal preoccupations, all change. So do those of our friends. So the relationship that binds us together must change too; it must be flexible enough to meet the alterations of person and circumstance

I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times—the most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.

No relationship in this world ever remains warm and close unless a real effort is made on both sides to keep it so.

Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted and I have come to the conclusion that practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the futue. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.

When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to happiness that you can give out.

If you care enough about certain things and work for them, I think you are bound to find them in the people you are with.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

how could I, fool that I am, go on sitting in my office, or here at home, instead of leaping onto a train with my eyes shut and opening them only when I am with you?

The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind