Connection Quotes

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous" "Seek first to understand, then to be understood." "Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships." "We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend" "In your light I learn how to love" "Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action." "What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past" "The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises" "A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world" "Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life" "To reach out to another is to risk involvement" "Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition and society and family" "I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all" "For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love" "One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood" "The glue that holds all relationships together, including the relationship between the leader and the led, is trust, and trust is based on integrity." "You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them" "Developing and maintaining connection with a higher power is transformative. It provides focus and sanity and they aren't to be underestimated." "In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two " "To understand just one life you have to swallow the world"