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“We all are so deeply interconnected; we have no option but to love all. Be kind and do good for any one and that will be reflected. The ripples of the kind heart are the highest blessings of the Universe.”
― Amit Ray, Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style

“Ben and Freda were happy for Cindy. She had recovered from the horrible abuses she had suffered the previous year. Her last bad dream was over five months behind her. Her schoolwork was excellent, and her home and farm chores were done promptly without any supervision. Her face without a smile was a rare sight.”
― Shafter Bailey, Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings

“At times she had thought that this was the only kind of connection you could have with people—intense, inexplicable and ultimately incomplete.”
― Mary Gaitskill, Bad Behavior

“Was that what was so painful: that nobody had ever come so close to me- nobody had ever seen me, and come right up to me, and kept going, and looked into my eyes so seriously, with so little fear?”
― Elif Batuman, Either/Or

“You can always rely on Daddy to state the bleeding obvious; it used to madden her and Edgar, but now she finds it soothing.”
― Lesley Glaister, A Particular Man

“What I value is the naked contact of a mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Pargiters

“Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.”
― Martin Buber, I and Thou

“Never underestimate the empowering effect of human connection.
All you need is that one person, who understands you completely, believes in you and makes you feel loved for what you are, to enable you - to unfold the miraculous YOU.”
― Drishti Bablani, Wordions

“He slid the ring onto my wedding finger. It fitted perfectly. A good omen? I tipped my hand this way and that, admiring the extravagant sparkle, and kept my truth buttoned all buttoned up.”
― Lesley Glaister, A Particular Man

“She said nothing with her voice and everything with her caring touch.”
― Dave Cenker, Second Chance

“You cannot force a person to see you as someone they want to open up to; you cannot force a person to see you as someone they want to connect with; you cannot force a person to see you as someone they are bound to. None of this can be enforced, none of this is reached through struggling; for the reality of these is in nature and freeflow is the way of nature. The natural opening up, the natural connection and the natural bond: cannot be attained through enforcement; but as the ocean is, it can also not be hindered or stopped. We cannot make people bond with us in ways that we wish them to; but when it does happen, it really happens, and cannot be undone.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“There are billions of us -- humans everywhere, with access to our own minds and no one else's, tossing one another songs and sentences to bridge the gap.”
― Annie Kotowicz, What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum

“I have, however, to live in an age of Faith �� the sort of thing I used to hear praised and recommended when I was a boy. It is damned unpleasant, really. It is bloody in every sense of the word. And I have to keep my end up in it. Where do I start?

With personal relationships. Here is something comparatively solid in a world full of violence and cruelty. Not absolutely solid... We don’t know what other people are like. How then can we put any trust in personal relationships, or cling to them in the gathering political storm? In theory we can’t. But in practice we can and do. Though A is unchangeably A or B unchangeably B, there can still be love and loyalty between the two. For the purpose of loving one has to assume that the personality is solid, and the “self�� is an entity, and to ignore all contrary evidence. And since to ignore evidence is one of the characteristics of faith, I certainly can proclaim that I believe in personal relationships.”
― E. M. Forster

“Oh you tender ones, there are times when you should
Enter into that breath which was not intended for you,
Let Him part Himself on your cheeks, -
How he trembles behind you, comes together again.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus

“social connections enabled the brain to evolve into the most powerful organ in the universe.”
― Stephanie Cacioppo, Wired for Love: A Neuroscientist's Journey Through Romance, Loss, and the Essence of Human Connection

“When asking for help, there is comfort in knowing that many people do not view helping others as a burden, but as a means to return favours or to pay it forward.”
― Jeff

“There was no subject she could not discuss with Lee. And the few things she could talk about to her father and mother were thin and pale and tired and mostly not even true. There Lee was different also, Abe’s wants to tell Lee only true things even when she wasn’t quite sure what was true.”
― John Steinbeck

“...the late Mr. Seymour himself has already served as a cautionary tale that happiness as a matter of course does not follow wealth. We cannot fulfill ourselves by worldly possessions. Wealth is but a tool that can be put to use for better or worse, but material wealth pales next to the bounty of human connection....Without connection this life is meaningless.

[Nora Bergen, Letter to brother Finn]”
― Jonathan Evison, Small World

“There was no subject she could not discuss with Lee. And the few things she could talk about to her father and mother were thin and pale and tired and mostly not even true. There Lee was different also, Abra wanted to tell Lee only true things even when she wasn't quite sure what was true.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“I want my physical presence to match the strength I feel within, want to be carried up high with elation, float like a balloon above this day that I love, these people I feel close to even if I don't know them.”
― Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body

“I want to feel them shake with laughter beside me, tell them they've got sleep in the corner of their eye, tuck their tag in, lie in the grass with my head in their lap, smell the scent of their shampoo, touch their arm to get their attention in a group.”
― Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body

“Dana had one arm. He'd lost the other one to cancer. Being the film freak I was, I never bothered to ask about it further. Or even what his last name was. Not enough time before or between the films. A one-armed schoolteacher, teaching kids in the shitty L.A. school district, probably full of more stories and personality than the electric fables being projected above us. But I was more focused on the mummies and vampires and dinosaurs and aliens to take a deeper interest in an actual, unique human being sitting right next to me. Such was my addiction, at that point. Cut off from the world. A ghost, but breathing and jacketed with flesh.”
― Patton Oswalt, Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film

“Imagine the ripple effect of a simple greeting. A warm smile, a friendly hello - a spark of human connection that can illuminate a stranger's day, perhaps even their entire journey.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul

“To reach any desirable audience, one must almost always run a gauntlet of virulent complainers.”
― George Hammond

“El ritmo lo es todo, me dijo. Hacer que las cosas se muevan es algo intrínseco a la naturaleza humana. La vida tiene que estar en movimiento. El ritmo es evolución, y tiene una función: ahuyenta la soledad y el aislamiento, nos conecta a todos”
― Patrik Svensson, Un inmenso azul: El mar, el abismo y la curiosidad humana

“Building better relationships isn’t rocket science—it’s more like Wi-Fi. Show up, stay connected, and don’t forget to reboot when things get messy!”
― Sage Everest, Connection Code: Building Deeper Relationships with Everyone

“روح کی بات روح مجھ لیتی ہے لیکن کوئی روح دوسری روح میں اتنی ڈوب نہیں سکتی کہ اس کے علم کو اپنا غم بنائے ہائے کتنی بڑھ تنہائی ہے !”
― KRISHAN CHANDAR, AIK AURAT HAZAR DIWANE by KRISHAN CHANDAR ایک عورت ہزار دیوانے

“You never talk about your past with anyone. Talking just releases memories into the air, and they aren't really yours anymore, or they become changed or other people capture them and hold them prisoner. You want to keep them. The bad ones might infect someone.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Dead Astronauts

“We vanish. That may be the kismet of the body. But we leave imprints. That may be the proof we were ever here.

Time forgets us. That may be its duty. But we remember each other. That may be our defiance.

The world moves on. That may be its nature. But we love, we lose, we long. That may be what makes it worth watching.

We break. That may be the cost of living. But we mend. That may be the reason we keep going.

Nothing lasts. That may be the rule. But we carve our names into cursory moments. That may be enough.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul

“hay amistades que llegan para complementarte, para aportarte eso que a ti misma te falta o, sencillamente, para darte un empujón cuando lo necesitas, un abrazo cuando te sientes solo o un golpe de realidad cuando tus ojos están cerrados y no te permiten ver lo evidente.”
― Yanira Garcia, Estúpidamente encantador