Quotes about Connection
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are therir own
— Aristotle
A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.
— Aristotle
Men cannot know each other till they have 'eaten salt together'.
— Aristotle
There seems to be in us a sort of affinity to musical modes and rhythms, which makes some philosophers say that the soul is a tuning, others, that it possesses tuning.
— Aristotle
For though the wish for friendship comes quickly, friendship does not.
— Aristotle
What distinguishes all love from lust is the fact that it bears an impress of eternity.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Prayer is listening.
— Soren Kierkegaard
I pray daily, and I pray in all kinds of places. I mean, I pray in bed, I pray in the Oval Office. I pray a lot. And just different as the spirit moves me. And faith is an integral part of my life.
— George W. Bush
There is a Jewish notion that holiness is found with other people. To understand what life really is, one has to share it.
— Harold S. Kushner
Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God, here and now.
— Henri Nouwen
There are as many ways to pray as there are moments in life.
— Henri Nouwen
By giving words to these intimate experiences I can make my life available to others.
— Henri Nouwen