Connection Quotes

"Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection." "A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong." "I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship." "Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone." "The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them." "Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another." "We are all connected. What unites us is our common humanity." "We of the sun, we living creatures " "We commit ourselves to language and community at the same time" "My soul has grown deep like the rivers." "When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul." "Kiss me and you will see how important I am " "I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles" "Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened" "The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if we cannot understand them" "Why do we close our eyes when we pray, cry, kiss, or dream? Because the most beautiful things in life are not seen but felt by the heart" "Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction" "I try to give the audience a sense of the wide range of human experience" "I now bear away with me, O my God, all that I have received, the wind and the wisdom of all human spirits that have been, and now are " "I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them."