Connections Quotes - Page 38

• I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you.

  Forest Whitaker

  Character, Together, Energy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In order to live the life we desire, and set the intention for greater happiness and more meaningful connections with others, we have to release the hold that our past has on us

  Deepak Chopra

  Meaningful, Live Life, Past

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from May 21, 2014

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• The greatest gift that you could ever give to another is your own happiness, for when you are in a state of joy, happiness, or appreciation, you are fully connected to the stream of pure, positive Source Energy that is truly who you are. And when you are in that state of connection, anything or anyone that you are holding as your object of attention benefits from your attention.

  Esther Hicks

  Appreciation, Giving, Joy

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2009). “Ask and it is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires”, p.113, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• And through the opening or clearing in your own awareness may come flashing higher truths, subtler revelations, profound connections. For a moment you might even touch eternity.

  Ken Wilber

  Profound, May, Might

  Ken Wilber (2004). “The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings”, p.189, Shambhala Publications

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• We like to look for patterns and find connections in unrelated events. This way we can explain them to ourselves. Life seems neater, or at least less messy. We need to feel we are in control: it is integral to our self-esteem. We also know, though we deny it, that we are not in control. So we settle for the illusions of control. What if we stopped fooling ourselves?

  Jessica Zafra

  Self Esteem, What If, Patterns

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• I think I was born with a sense of instantaneous connection between the things I perceived in the world and my feelings about those things my character has served me well it has made me. well, an eighteenth -century man of letters, though one who happens to be female and lives in twentieth-century Berkeley.

  Wendy Lesser

  Character, Men, Thinking

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• A shepherd on a hilltop who looks at a mess of stars and thinks, ‘There’s a hunter, a plow, a fish,’ is making mental connections that have as much real force in the universe as the very fires in those stars themselves.

  Annie Dillard

  Stars, Real, Thinking

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• I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection with any kind of writing - as long as the writing is good.

  Sara Sheridan

  Summer, Writing, Long

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• Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.

  Nat Wolff

  Communication, Cool Jazz, Smooth Jazz

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Spiritual connection does not mean romance

  Caroline Myss

  Spiritual, Mean, Romance

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• They're pushing me to do Howard. Howard's a trip. My friend made me watch the Lesbian Love Connection and I was like, Oh God, get me out of here!

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Pushing, Watches, Made

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• The opposite of addiction is human connection. And I think that has massive implications for the war on drugs. The treatment of drug addicts almost everywhere in the world is much closer to Tent City than it is to anything in Portugal. Our laws are built around the belief that drug addicts need to be punished to stop them. But if pain and trauma and isolation cause addiction, then inflicting more pain and trauma and isolation is not going to solve that addiction. It's actually going to deepen it.

  Johann Hari

  Pain, War, Thinking

  "Johann Hari: 'I failed badly. When you harm people, you should shut up, go away and reflect on what happened'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2015.

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• Music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.

  Cat Stevens

  Hunger, Harmony, Nourishment

  "'Music is part of God's universe'". Interview with Nigel Williamson, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2005.

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• The truth is, rarely can a response make something better - what makes something better is connection.

  Brené Brown

  Truth Is, Something Better, Response

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• I've covered a lot of ground geographically and emotionally and for years I lost my connection with my family. But the best comfort you can have, whether you are on the phone or sitting there in the living room with them, is with your parents, and to me family has always meant protection. When you smile you get a smile back, unconditionally.

  Brigitte Nielsen

  Smile, Phones, Years

  Interview with Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2011.

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• Good conversation turns me on. A connection between two people, a mental one first.

  Brian Molko

  Two, People, Firsts

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• Human communication, 'as the saying goes, is a clash of symbols' it covers a multitude of signs. But it is more than media and messages, information and persuasion; it also meets a deeper need and serves a higher purpose. Whether clear or garbled, tumultuous or silent, deliberate or fatally inadvertent, communication is the ground of meeting and the foundation of community. It is, in short, the essential human connection.

  Ashley Montagu

  Communication, Media, Community

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• The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  True Knowledge, Findings

  Daniel H. Wilson (2011). “Robopocalypse”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a little conduit opens, a passageway between a reader's heart and a writer's, a connection that transcends the barriers of continents and generations and even death ... And here's the magic. You're different. You can never go back to being exactly the same person you were before you disappeared into that book.

  Anthony Doerr

  Dream, Book, Fall

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• Friendship is a strange animal. It only thrives in voluntary enjoyment of each other's company, in the pleasure of nonobligatory connection. I repeat: You owe me nothing.

  Kate Christensen

  Animal, Strange, Pleasure

  FaceBook post by Kate Christensen from Apr 16, 2013

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• Through the deeply theraputic practice of asana, we begin to purify our karmas, thereby healing our past relationships with others and reestablishing a steady and joyful connection with the Earth, which means all beings.

  Sharon Gannon

  Karma, Healing, Mean

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• I know whether or not I am confused most readily by noticing--being mindful of--my capacity for feeling caring concern. ... when I feel myself in caring connection--encouraging, consoling, or appreciating--I feel the twin pleasures of clarity and goodness. It doesn't matter if the connection I feel is to myself or a person I know or people I don't know or even the whole world. The lively impulse of caring is what counts. [p. 20]

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Confused, Caring, People

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• Shut up! Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control. Here's Love Connection. Watch this and get fat and stupid.

  Bill Hicks

  Stupid, Government, America

  "Rant in E-Minor". Comedy album by Bill Hicks, 1997.

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• That experience showed me that I-from moment to moment-am the only person in control of my connection to God. It's not that God is deciding to connect with me, depending on whether I had a good day, or did good or bad deeds. It's all up to me. God, the awareness of God, the love of God, the blessings of God-that lively ecstasy-is always there. It's me who separates from God by judging, by indulging in negativity, by criticizing myself, as well as others.

  Barbara De Angelis

  God, Good Day, Blessing

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• Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for its felt presence are fragile . . . I like to work with it so that you feel it physically, so you feel the presence of light inhabiting a space.

  James Turrell

  Powerful, Light, Space

  James Turrell, Julia Brown, Craig E. Adcock, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1985). “Occluded front, James Turrell”, Lapis Pr

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