Quotes about Connection

To love is to be vulnerable; and it is only in vulnerability and risk—not safety and security—that we overcome darkness.

Mother says she can never stay mad at Daddy no matter how hard she tries. And Daddy says, ' Stay mad! You won't even let me get mad at you,' and then they laugh. Aren't you sorry for people who don't laugh, Vicky? Yes. And people who don't love music and books. And people, John said.

The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.

For that moment, at least, all our doors and windows were wide open; we were not carefully shutting out God's purifying light, in order to feel safe and secure; we were bathed in the same light that burned and yet did not consume the bush. We walked barefoot on holy ground.

Nothing loved is ever lost or perished.

If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.

There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down.

I simply take him into my heart, and then put him into God's hand.

I am slowly coming to understand with all my heart as well as my head that love is not a feeling. It is a person.

Let's be exclusive' Charles Wallace said.

If we knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we'd tend not to notice the sunrise,or hear the birds, or the waves rolling into shore. We'd tend not to treasure our time with the people we love.

The refusal to love is the only unbearable thing.