Quotes about Connection

I understood now that all of us have that place inside that wants to be part of something, that needs the comfort and companionship of loved ones. Within each of us, there is an empty room, and when we open the door, light flows in. The wider we open it, and the longer we leave it open, the brighter our souls become.

If we never take a chance on people, we'll never know.

Stories change people. History, real history, helps people understand each other, see each other from the inside out.

I was not alone in the human condition.

Real love isn't a payment. It isn't a response to your accomplishments or anything else. It's a gift without strings.

I realize that those who have loved us are never really gone. They live on in all the ones we love and all the ways we love. They are the reason we know how to love at all.

Sisters are created not by blood but by love.

Every living creature needs to hear the beating of another heart once in a while." Her words were quiet, almost as if she were only thinking them, not speaking at all. "Nothing God made on this earth is meant to go on its way alone.

You can't impact something you don't touch.

To love and be loved is the very thing our souls scream for from birth and every moment after, the urge to need and be needed as natural as breathing, as life-giving as breath.

It's hard to feel like much is wrong in the world when you're looking into the eyes of a happy baby.

If Satan has toeholds that allow him to claw and climb from the underworld to this one, they lie in our failure to see ourselves in others.