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Connection Quotes
"Funny thing how when you reach out, people tend to reach right back. Best, then, to make sure your hand is open and not fisted."
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"You can see a person without using your eyes, hear a person without using your ears, carry a person without using your hands, speak to a person without using your mouth, and move a person without using your feet."
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"Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion."
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"From our first breath to our last, we're presented again and again with the opportunity to experience deep, lasting, and trans-formative connection with other beings: to love them and be loved by them; to show them our true natures and to recognize theirs."
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"Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth."
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"Finding love on your doorstep will make you open up your heart to the world."
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"Hey, Ethan.'Yeah?'Remember the Twinkie on the bus? The one I gave you in second grade, the day we met?'The one you found on the floor and gave me without telling me? Nice.'He grinned and shot the ball. 'It never really fell on the floor. I made that part up."
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"There is no interaction without God with interaction with men."
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"Prayer is not an option but a necessity."
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"The silence wasn't like the ones I'd known lately, though; it wasn't empty so much as chosen. There's an entirely different feel to quiet when you're with someone else, and at any moment it could be broken. Like the difference between a pause and an ending."
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"Connecting with others gives us a sense of inclusion, connection, interaction, safety, and community. Your vibe attracts your tribe, so if you want to attract positive and healthy relationships, be one! Staying connected and getting reconnected feeds the flow of goodness which empowers our humanity."
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"In lovesickness we had found a common language."
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"Plains watch the mountains and mountains watch the plains. Through looks, everything touches everything, even though they have many kilometers or even light years between them!"
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"Hideo," said my mother, in the terrifying way women have of passing without interval from one subject to another because they have them all present in their mind at once, "you haven't found any kind of relationship?"
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"Your heart has a powerful little antenna and its pulses and vibrations can be felt throughout the universe."
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"We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away."
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"The power of getting to know one another is so immense, eclipsed only by first getting to know ourselves."
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"I didn't want the clothes or the perfect shoes or the expensive anything. I didn't want to be draped in silk. All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart."
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"We are like puzzle pieces who are perfectly suited to make a giant picture together, but we are assembling ourselves in the dark."
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"There's something about you, Your eyes speak a story in a language only known to my soul. The kind of communication we as humans dream about, the one that reaches into the core of who you are and loves you for it. It doesn't appear often or by accident & when it happens you just know " There's something about you "."
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"When a friend suddenly comes to mind for no apparent reason, he said it's because they are near to us in thought or spirit. He explained that a connection takes place on the thought waves that run between us. Thoughts are things that can reach out and touch us."
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"We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them."
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"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden."
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"I think that when we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we're alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange."
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"This is sams phone" there was a long,heavy pause, and then: "oh." Another pause. "Youre the girl, arent you? The girl who was in my house?" I tried to think of what i might gain by denying it and drew a blank "yes" do you have a name?"do you?"he gave a short laugh that was completely without humor but not unpleasent. "I think i might like you. Im Beck."
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"The most reliable friend you have is your shadow."
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"For as long as I could remember, other people had either overshadowed me or left me out in the open, alone. But Mac, as Layla had said all those weeks ago, was always somewhere nearby. He left me enough space to stand alone, but stood at the ready for the moment that I didn't want to. It was the perfect medium, I was learning. Like he was my saint, the one I'd been waiting for."
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"Love me only for my actions, and I will grow stressed. Love me only for my body, and I will grow paranoid. Love me only for my words, and I will grow bitter.Love me only for my soul, and I will grow."
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"When you hate others, you hate yourself.when you hate yourself, you hate others.when you love others, you love yourself.when you love yourself, you love others.there is no separation."
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"It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart."
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"Once a friend, always a friend. Why should borders stop that?"
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"Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth."
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"Yea, slimy things did crawl with legsUpon the slimy sea."
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"Each time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family."
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"I sensed he was the one who might be able to see me clearly, the way I most wished to be seen."
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"If your heart truly stops when she looks at you, how come you are still alive?"
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"How much longer until we finally figure out how to be with one another?How many times do we have to play out this pain?I'm ready for something different.Aren't you."
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"Temporary friends sometimes bring us to permanent blessings."
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"Money makes the world go round, but love makes the universe go in every direction."
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"Connect and communicate to sacred strangers in daily life."
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"We're on the same wavelength. We're connected that way, even if I'm away from her."
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"In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other."
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"I want to learn how to speak to anyone at any time and make us both feel a little bit better, lighter, richer, with no commitments of ever meeting again. I want to learn how to stand wherever with whoever and still feel stable. I want to learn how to unlock the locks to our minds, my mind, so that when I hear opinions or views that don't match up with mine, I can still listen and understand. I want to burn up lifeless habits of following maps and to-do lists, concentrated liquids to burn my mind and throatand I want to go back to the way nature shaped me. I want to learn to go on well with whatever I have in my hands at the momentin a natural state of mind,certain like the sea.I will find comfort in the rhythm of the sea."
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"Love is the means, but sex is the destination."
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"If I'm not around I hope you'll remember me and together we will hold on to our favorite song."
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