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Connection Quotes
"Wrap your mind around my thoughts as I wrap my soul around your heart."
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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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"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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"Love is the essential ingredient. Without it, sex is meaningless, approval is bribery, and success is short-lived."
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"We touch people mostly without touching them: We touch them with our words, with our smile, with our eyes, with our courage, with our madness, with millions of different ways! What are we? We are contacting beings without contacting!"
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"Mingle Be the connector-introduce people to each other who may not otherwise connect. Be a conversation fire starter; point out what people have in common as you are introducing them. Seek out the folks who may appear to be shy, or awkward, or wallflowers. Find ways to build trust and comfort. Engage them with a kind word to pull them out of their shell. Arrive early and stay late; connect with people before and after your event. Stretch beyond your comfort zone to speak with, sit with, and start conversations with people whom you do not know. Offer to refill someone's drink or clear their plate. Encourage introductions: "There is someone whom I would love for you to meet . . ."
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"An open heart leaves a breach for someone to pour love into it."
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"Conflict connects us to life, just as life connects us to conflict."
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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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"Some are condemned to remain mere "clock and smart phone watchers, inasmuch as they are not able to read and interpret the lines of their life or don't even treasure the enchantment of daily captivating moments. If we are not prepared to give some personal time to social time, we walk like blind men through gloomy alleys of our existence. [' Please. Just a bit of a chat ']"
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"I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do."
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"At a lunchtime reception for the diplomatic corps in Washington, given the day before the inauguration of Barack Obama as president, I was approached by a good-looking man who extended his hand. 'We once met many years ago,' he said. 'And you knew and befriended my father.' My mind emptied, as so often happens on such occasions. I had to inform him that he had the advantage of me. 'My name is Hector Timerman. I am the ambassador of Argen."
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"Your heart is a conduit through which the spirit speaks to the mind."
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"Do not feel alone.You are connected to everyoneyesterday, today, and for days to come connected with a threadless garlandthat is love."
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"She put one hand on mine. "When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times."
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"Love is the means, but sex is the destination."
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"Paths cross all the time in this world of our, sometimes in the strangest places."
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"The strands that connect us are frail, so don't hang great weights on slender wires..."
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"I'll think about you every day. Part of me is scared that there will come a time when you don't feel the same way,that you'll somehow forget what we shared, so this is what I want to do. Wherever you are and no matter what's going on in your life, when it's the first night of the full moon-like it was the first time we met-I want you to find it in the nighttime sky. I want you to think about me and the week we shared, because wherever I am and no matter what's going on in my life, that's exactly what I'll be doing. If we can't be together, at least we can share that, and maybe between the two of us, we can make it last forever."
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"I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be."
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"We love those to whom we can tell our story."
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"The world is filled with so many beautiful people after all and who am I to think that you will hold on, hold on to me, because who am I and what are we?"
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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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"Similar souls wander in the similar places! They may not know each other, but often they touch the same winds, they step on the same leaves, their looks are lost in the same horizons!"
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"At the end of the day, we're all striving to be touched, somehow."
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"Your first words will not only shape your first impression, they can create amazing connections, lead you to your dream job, or help you discover a new best friend-or accomplish exactly the opposite."
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"A genuine smile is inviting, contagious, encouraging, and brings joy into the world. It instantly tells others that you are glad to see them, that they are important and you are approachable."
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"There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind..."
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"In the books, I meet characters which I really like and I think that they are like me... but so far I haven't met them in real life!"
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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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"With each day he felt the barriers melting. He let them melt. Because of her genuine laugh, because he caught her one afternoon sleeping with her face in the middle of a book, because he knew she would win."
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"Do not stand at a distance and wave hands. Get closer and hug."
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"Accompanied with good eye contact, a smile serves as an immediate icebreaker to warm up relations and turn a stranger into a friend."
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"Your religion cannot be divorced from your relationships."
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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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"People had been trying to understand the universe through love ever since the beginning of time."
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"You are my universe! I am longing to belong!"
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"I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you."
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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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"I'm starting to think this world is just a place for us to learn that we need each other more than we want to admit."
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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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"Sincerity increases willingness to care."
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"God is interested in how you relate to Him."
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"The Christian doctrine of suffering explains, I believe, a very curious fact about the world we live in. The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the nature of the world: but joy, pleasure, and merriment He has scattered broadcast...The security we crave would teach us to rest our hearts in this world and oppose an obstacle to our return to God...Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home."
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"Wherever you travel to, I would love to receive a beautiful postcard."
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"You cannot reach God until you begin to pay attention to humans."
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"Wherever I travel to, I encounter great souls."
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"There is no communication with God without communication with God's people."
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