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210 Connection Quotes About Uniting Everything Together

210 Connection Quotes About Uniting Everything Together

There is an unbreakable bond that connects all of us with each other. Let’s celebrate the beauty of this connection with beautiful connection quotes!

Top 10 Connection Quotes

1. “Invisible threads are the strongest ties.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

Invisible threads are the strongest ties.

2. “We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.” ― William James

3. “We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.” ― Albert Schweitzer

4. “People leave traces of themselves where they feel most comfortable, most worthwhile.” ― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

5. “Life’s just a bunch of accidents, connected by one perfect end.” ― Daniel C. Tomas

Life's just a bunch of accidents, connected by one perfect end.

6. “Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.” ― Thomas Merton, Love and Living

7. “Any fact becomes important when it’s connected to another.” ― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

8. “People can’t be just tied together. They have to connect. Otherwise, they’ll find themselves bound hand and foot.” ― Ai Yazawa

9. “I’m your phantom dance partner. I’m your shadow. I’m not anything more.” ― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

10. “We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That’s what connects us–that we’re all broken, all beautifully imperfect.” ― Emilio Estevez

That's what connects us--that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect.

Inspirational Quotes About Connection

1. “Honest self-reflection is true self-reflection.” ― Milan Kordestani, I’m Just Saying: The Art of Civil Discourse: A Guide to Maintaining Courteous Communication in an Increasingly Divided World

Honest self-reflection is true self-reflection.

2. “Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.” ― Susan Sontag

3. “Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.” ― Albert Schweitzer

4. “Do you know why we have the sunflowers? It’s not because Vincent van Gogh suffered. It’s because Vincent van Gogh had a brother who loved him. Through all the pain, he had a tether, a connection to the world. And that is the focus of the story we need – connection.” ― Hannah Gadsby

5. “Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment.” ― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems

6. “A single radio post still heard him. The only link between him and the world was a wave of music, a minor modulation. Not a lament, no cry, yet purest of sounds that ever spoke despair.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight

7. “He mentioned the connection between us. He identified with me. These are the things that many people want to hear, that most “normal” people want to be able to truthfully say, but almost no one can.” ― Rasmenia Massoud, Human Detritus

8. “The past is the present, isn’t it? It’s the future too.” ― Eugene O’Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night

9. “Intimacy is not purely physical. It’s the act of connecting with someone so deeply, you feel like you can see into their soul.” ― Reshall Varsos

10. “It is far easier to make a good first impression than to change a bad one.” ― Michelle Tillis Lederman, The 11 Laws of Likability

It is far easier to make a good first impression than to change a bad one.

11. “Listening to one another activates our mirror neurons and resonance circuitry (Iacoboni, 2009) so that we can be said to literally begin to inhabit one another’s embodied emotional universe.” ― Bonnie Badenoch, The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships

12. “Can I be honest with you, Mr. Wind-Up Bird? I mean, really, really, really honest? Sometimes I get sooo scared! I’ll wake up in the middle of the night all alone, hundreds of miles away from anybody, and it’s pitch dark, and I have absolutely no idea what’s going to happen to me in the future, and I get so scared I want to scream. Does that happen to you, Mr. Wind-Up Bird? When it happens, I try to remind myself that I am connected to others – other things and other people.” ― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

13. “Nature is the grandest warehouse discovered on this planet, hence anything that touches my heart holds the potential to inspire me, as it enables me to delve into my emotions and forge connections with others through shared experiences.” ― Suman Pokhrel

14. “Dad’s listening became loud, you know how that happens when someone is really concentrating and you can feel the white noise of their attention.” ― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Julia and the Shark

15. “Love strengthens soul connection and is the key to the success of all meaningful relationships” ― Nozer Kanga, Living with Consciousness

Love strengthens soul connection and is the key to the success of all meaningful relationships

16. “To notice the weather is to speak to an embodied way of being; it is to recognize our connection to all created things.” ― Kat Armas, Sacred Belonging: A 40-Day Devotional on the Liberating Heart of Scripture

17. “Reflections encourage a way to connect to the essence” ― Leo Lourdes, A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being

18. “Everything and everyone, including you and I, are made up of the magic from the stars in the sky.” ― Samantha Childs, Henri and the Magnificent Snort : A Children’s Book about Bullying, Belonging, and Love

19. “In every decision, large or small, I envisioned her by my side, a steadfast companion through the twists and turns of life’s journey. I yearned for her love to illuminate each pathway, casting away the shadows of uncertainty. Not bound by the constraints of time, I yearned to find her in every chapter of my life’s story.” ― Asif Hossain, Serenade of Solitude

20. “Everything is connected to our mind, our world, and our things.” ― Aiyaz Uddin

Everything is connected to our mind, our world, and our things.

Spiritual Connection Quotes

1. “When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do. ” ― Rachel Naomi Remen

When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do.

2. “We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.” ― Herman Melville

3. “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.” ― Brené Brown

4. “There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness.” ― Shannon L. Alder

5. “A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” ― John Lennon

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

6. “You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.” ― John Lennon

7. “To see and feel one’s beloved naked for the first time is one of life’s pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes.” ― Dan Simmons, The Rise of Endymion

See also: 150 I Deserve Better Quotes To Remind You Of Your Worth

8. “Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning and purpose to our lives.” ― Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection

9. “There isn’t any questioning the fact that some people enter your life, at the exact point of need, want or desire – it’s sometimes a coincidence and most times fate, but whatever it is, I am certain it came to make me smile.” ― Nikki Rowe

10. “Man can no longer live for himself alone. We must realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship with the universe.” ― Albert Schweitzer

We must realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all life.

11. “I promise you that the same stuff galaxies are made of, you are. The same energy that swings planets around stars makes electrons dance in your heart. It is in you, outside you, you are it. It is beautiful. Trust in this. And your life will be grand.” ― Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth

12. “Not too long ago thousands spent their lives as recluses to find spiritual vision in the solitude of nature. Modern man need not become a hermit to achieve this goal, for it is neither ecstasy nor world-estranged mysticism his era demands, but a balance between quantitative and qualitative reality. Modern man, with his reduced capacity for intuitive perception, is unlikely to benefit from the contemplative life of a hermit in the wilderness. But what he can do is to give undivided attention, at times, to a natural phenomenon, observing it in detail, and recalling all the scientific facts about it he may remember. Gradually, however, he must silence his thoughts and, for moments at least, forget all his personal cares and desires, until nothing remains in his soul but awe for the miracle before him. Such efforts are like journeys beyond the boundaries of narrow self-love and, although the process of intuitive awakening is laborious and slow, its rewards are noticeable from the very first. If pursued through the course of years, something will begin to stir in the human soul, a sense of kinship with the forces of life consciousness which rule the world of plants and animals, and with the powers which determine the laws of matter. While analytical intellect may well be called the most precious fruit of the Modern Age, it must not be allowed to rule supreme in matters of cognition. If science is to bring happiness and real progress to the world, it needs the warmth of man’s heart just as much as the cold inquisitiveness of his brain.” ― Franz Winkler

13. “The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.” ― James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name

14. “The only difference between man and man all over the world is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species.

Where is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?” ― Mahatma Gandhi

15. “I was lying to myself when I thought I was lost, I have never been lost – I just wasn’t ready to be found.” ― Nikki Rowe

I was lying to myself when I thought I was lost, I have never been lost - I just wasn't ready to be found.

16. “A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.” ― Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

17. “There is a deep interconnectedness of all life on earth, from the tiniest organisms, to the largest ecosystems, and absolutely between each person.” ― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

18. “Through the dust though
We reach out
And find holding hands.” ― Lowrey E. Gray, 42

19. “And the bonds between those mothers,

Will triumph any war.” ― Lowrey E. Gray, 42

20. “Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.” ― Rumi

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

21. “According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don’t bother you anymore. You become light-hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous.” ― Deepak Chopra, Synchrodestiny: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence to Create Miracles

22. “Each man had only one genuine vocation – to find the way to himself….His task was to discover his own destiny – not an arbitrary one – and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one’s own inwardness.” ― Herman Hesse

23. “We often dream about people from whom we receive a letter by the next post. I have ascertained on several occasions that at the moment when the dream occurred the letter was already lying in the post-office of the addressee.” ― C.G. Jung, Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle

24. “Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.” ― Brian Weiss, Messages from the Masters: Tapping Into the Power of Love

25. “We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.” ― Neil DeGrasse Tyson

We are all connected

26. “One of the most spiritual things you can do is embrace your humanity. Connect with those around you today. Say, “I love you”, “I’m sorry”, “I appreciate you”, “I’m proud of you”…whatever you’re feeling. Send random texts, write a cute note, embrace your truth and share it…cause a smile today for someone else…and give plenty of hugs.” ― Steve Maraboli

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27. “You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.” ― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

28. “Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning and purpose to our lives.” ― Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection

See also: Complete List Of 150 Inspiring Quotes About Compassion

29. “Soul connections are not often found and are worth every bit of fight left in you to keep.” ― Shannon Alder

30. “When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.” ― Stephen Richards

When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.

Quotes About Human Connection

1. “Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone’s hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.” ― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey.

2. “It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.” ― John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love

3. “When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” ― Albert Camus

4. “The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.” ― Goethe

5. “I miss that feeling of connection. Knowing he was out there somewhere thinking about me at the same time I was thinking about him.” ― Ranata Suzuki

I miss that feeling of connection.

6. “It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.

7. “The lonely mind in the busy city yearns for connection because it thinks human-to-human connection is the point of everything. But amid pure nature (or the ‘tonic of wildness’ as Thoreau called it) solitude took on a different character. It became in itself a kind of connection. A connection between herself and the world. And between her and herself.” ― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

8. “It is man’s social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.” ― Mohandas Gandhi

9. “There are some people that we know all our lives and yet never really feel we know them at all. But there are other people—” Unable to resist the temptation, he ran a feather-light caress down the curve of her cheek with one leather-sheathed knuckle. The cobalt depths of her eyes flickered with response, but she said nothing, heeding his every word. “—people we meet in a day, and instantly, it feels as though we’ve known them all our lives.” ― Gaelen Foley, Lord of Fire

10. “We connect through our dreams. Like we could be a thousand miles apart and I’d still know you were there.” ― Pete Hautman, The Big Crunch

We connect through our dreams.

11. “In its encounter with Nature, science invariably elicits a sense of reverence and awe. The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos. And the cumulative worldwide build-up of knowledge over time converts science into something only a little short of a trans-national, trans-generational meta-mind.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

12. “Our souls yearn for connection with all souls. There are people we think we prefer and others we don’t, but half the time that’s a lie: We tell ourselves the fairy tale of our hatreds out of fear, but we revisit that tale as it suits us. Deep down, we’d love to love and be loved by all.” ― Alexandra Katehakis, Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence

13. “Disorder creates connections──that is, resonance.” ― Eric Abrahamson

14. “It’s always been most important for me to figure out “my space” rather than trying to check out what everyone else is up to, minute by minute. Technology is making it easier to connect to other people, but maybe harder to keep connected to yourself– and that’s essential for any artist, I think.” ― Jay-Z, Decoded

15. “It is through the strength of what is genuine that meaningful connections build into relationships.” ― Michelle Tillis Lederman, 11 Laws of Likability

It is through the strength of what is genuine that meaningful connections build into relationships.

16. “We often forget our human connectedness. Throughout my life, I have felt the greatest beauty lies in this connection. It has been in the deepest connections with others that I have experienced the greatest degree of learning, healing and transformation. This connection is a powerful thing, with the ability to transform lives, and ultimately transform human experience.” ― Kristi Bowman, Journey to One: A Woman’s Story of Emotional Healing and Spiritual Awakening

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17. “Connecting with others gives us a sense of inclusion, connection, interaction, safety, and community. Your vibe attracts your tribe, so if you want to attract positive and healthy relationships, be one! Staying connected and getting reconnected feeds the flow of goodness which empowers our humanity.” ― Susan C. Young

18. “When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.” ― Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life

19. “All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.” ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

20. “Build me up and I with you. For we are more one than two.” ― Deborah Day

Build me up and I with you. For we are more one than two.

Meaningful Connection Quotes

1. “He touched my soul long before I knew what his hands felt like.” ― Nikki Rowe

He touched my soul long before I knew what his hands felt like.

2. “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

See also: 140 Blessing Quotes To Awaken Your Gratefulness

3. “The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.” ― Barbara De Angelis

See also: 150 Living In This Moment Quotes To Embrace The Here & Now

4. “The more I read, the more I felt connected across time to other lives and deeper sympathies. I felt less isolated. I wasn’t floating on my little raft in the present; there were bridges that led over to solid ground. Yes, the past is another country, but one that we can visit, and once there we can bring back the things we need.

Literature is common ground. It is ground not managed wholly by commercial interests, nor can it be strip-mined like popular culture—exploit the new thing then move on.

There’s a lot of talk about the tame world versus the wild world. It is not only a wild nature that we need as human beings; it is the untamed open space of our imaginations.

Reading is where the wild things are.” ― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

5. “Real relationships are the product of time spent, which is why so many of us have so few of them.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough

Real relationships are the product of time spent, which is why so many of us have so few of them.

6. “Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.” ― Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

7. “The past,’ he thought, ‘is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.’ And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain; that when he touched one end the other quivered.” ― Anton Chekhov, The Witch and Other Stories

8. “My mother always wanted to live near the water,” she said. “She said it’s the one thing that brings us all together. That I can have my toe in the ocean off the coast of Maine, and a girl my age can have her toe in the ocean off the coast of Africa, and we would be touching. On opposite sides of the world.” ― Megan Miranda, Vengeance

9. “Reconnect to what makes you happy and brings you Joy. If there is something that used to make you happy which you have stopped doing, do it again. Seek to find deeper meaning and significance rather than living on the surface.” ― Susan C. Young

10. “Listen to your instincts.” ― Mitta Xinindlu

Listen to your instincts.

11. “If we all loved a little harder, cared a little more, hugged a little stronger, and opened our circles a little wider, fewer people would feel lonely and depressed. Our brains would be awash with happy neurotransmitters, and we would all feel—as we fundamentally are—part of the connected species.” ― Mark A. Williams, The Connected Species: How the Evolution of the Human Brain Can Save the World

12. “You fear that every effort has been meaningless, but it touches so many others that we can never calculate the impact of our lives, and that impossibility of calculation is a retort to finitude.” ― Gargi Bhattacharyya, We, The Heartbroken

13. “What I’ve stumbled upon, over and over throughout the years, is that wellness doesn’t come from a bottle or a cleanse—it comes from being connected, from freely allowing and following fluent tides of passion, from making gut-based decisions, from indulging in openness, love and authenticity—always, in all ways.” ― Carrie Ciula, The Little Book of Big Life Change: A Nine-Part Journey to Feeling Whole

14. “We spend so much time looking for pieces of ourselves in other people that we never realized they were busy searching for the same things in us.” ― Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things

15. “No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care” ― Theodore Roosevelt

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

16. “When we maintain a conscious connection with Gratitude, our presence will naturally radiate a certain beauty and undisturbed, inner tranquillity. Such individuals glow. They look beautiful and irresistible to those who value goodness. They have an attractor field of loveliness which tends to bring out the beauty in other people.” ― Donna Goddard, The Love of Being Loving

17. “Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.” ― Andrew Boyd, Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe

18. “Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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19. “Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.” ― Joseph Fort Newton

20. “I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.” ― Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

Quotes About Connecting With Others

1. “Connecting our hearts through love yields a nectar so sweet we are forever full.” ― Amy Leigh Mercree

Connecting our hearts through love yields a nectar so sweet we are forever full.

2. “Even in your absence I fight with you in my mind, I laugh with you in my mind. That’s how the strong connection exists between you and me. It will be forever.” ― Emma Brynstein

3. “Life is about celebrating uniqueness, diversity, and then bringing it all together like the varied colors of a rainbow. Different yet connected.” ― Hlbalcomb

4. “Because of our interconnectedness we all know that extreme poverty and exclusionary practices are violations against the basic dignity of people.” ― Bryant McGill

5. “True human connection is found at the level of pure consciousness.” ― Patrick Zeis

True human connection is found at the level of pure consciousness.

6. “Words that don’t bring people together are dead words.” ― Marty Rubin

7. “We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection.

Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them – we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.

Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed and rare.” ― Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection

8. “My actions affect others, so having an open heart makes the connection available to others” ― Leo Lourdes, A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being

9. “Self-reflection improves civil discourse by pushing you toward reason.” ― Milan Kordestani, I’m Just Saying: The Art of Civil Discourse: A Guide to Maintaining Courteous Communication in an Increasingly Divided World

10. “We have become imprisoned inside our own egos, walled off where true connection cannot reach us” ― Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions

We have become imprisoned inside our own egos, walled off where true connection cannot reach us

11. “So-called social media is not social at all.” ― Mark A. Williams, The Connected Species: How the Evolution of the Human Brain Can Save the World

12. “Different people in different parts of the world can be thinking the same thoughts at the same time. It’s an obsession of mine: that different people in different places are thinking the same thing but for different reasons. I try to make films which connect people” ― Krzysztof Kieślowski

13. “Sometimes, the most unexpected connections can become the strongest bonds. Through the serendipitous meeting on WhatsApp, our online friendship has stood the test of time, proving that distance is no match for the power of genuine connection and the beauty of chance encounters.” ― Unknown

14. “Now I know it’s not blood that binds you to another, it is knowing that at the end of the day, whatever you may go through, your fates will always be Perfectly Entwined.” ― Krystalle Bianca, Perfectly Entwined

15. “Late night talks with online friends are a reminder that even in the darkest of hours, we are not alone.” ― Unknown

Late night talks with online friends are a reminder that even in the darkest of hours, we are not alone

16. “Movies are a great way to connect with others. Movies break through nearly every political, racial, cultural and societal boundary. Humans from around the world can connect with each other through a great story.” ― Martin “Rainman” Leghart Jr.

17. “Though we may impress by sharing the best versions of ourselves, it’s only with sharing authentic stories that we truly can connect as human beings with others.” ― Antonio Neves, Stop Living on Autopilot: Take Responsibility for Your Life and Rediscover a Bolder, Happier You

18. “Every story you choose to tell has the potential to make another person’s life better.”― Steve Multer

19. “No one reaches out to you for compassion or empathy so you can teach them how to behave better. They reach out to us because they believe in our capacity to know our darkness well enough to sit in the dark with them.” ― Brené Brown, The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connections and Courage

20. “There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes the world larger.” ― Mary Anne Radmacher

There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes the world larger.

Quotes About Deep Connection

1. “As an introvert, you crave intimate moments and deep connections–and those usually aren’t found in a crowd.” ― Jenn Granneman, The Secret Lives of Introverts: Inside Our Hidden World

As an introvert, you crave intimate moments and deep connections

2. “Fire and water looked so lovely together. It was a pity they destroyed each other by nature.” ― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic

3. “Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.” ― Carl Gustav Jung

4. “The eyes are one of the most powerful tools a woman can have. With one look, she can relay the most intimate message. After the connection is made, words cease to exist. ” ― Jennifer Salaiz

5. “The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.” ― Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

6. “You are not limited to this body, to this mind, or to this reality—you are a limitless ocean of Consciousness, imbued with infinite potential. You are existence itself.” ― Joseph P. Kauffman, The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom

7. “The idea that we can be exactly what the other desires is a powerful fantasy.” ― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

8. “Everything is connected to something. But not everything is connected to everything. The differences are vital.” ― Sophie Strand

9. “Ordinarily, when we reach out and share ourselves–our fears, hopes, struggles, and joy–we create small sparks of connection. Our shared vulnerability creates light in normally dark places.” ― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

10. “Connectedness. One thing leads to another. Often in unexpected ways.” ― Holly Goldberg Sloan, Counting by 7s

Connectedness. One thing leads to another. Often in unexpected ways.

11. “This time when we kiss, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel it in my heart. And I realize love isn’t about sex. It’s about connection.” ― Ellen Hopkins

12. “Empathy enables us to connect deeply with those around us, fostering understanding, compassion, and cooperation.” ― Shawn A. McCastle, Atlas of the Soul: Charting the Depths of Empathy and the Vocabulary of Human Connection

13. “By cultivating empathy and overcoming the barriers that impede connection, we can forge deeper, more meaningful relationships and contribute to a more compassionate and connected world.” ― Shawn A. McCastle, Atlas of the Soul: Charting the Depths of Empathy and the Vocabulary of Human Connection

14. “When giving in to the harmonies of tree music, I find small animals drawn to my outdoor practices and feel myself more highly linked to them and the land.” ― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, The Magic of Trees

15. “Planting trees and using them to communicate with the natural world is holy work.” ― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, The Magic of Trees

Planting trees and using them to communicate with the natural world is holy work.

16. “Because death breaks our connection… death is not a thread. It is the sharp cut that severs us. Death separates us from one another, and yet holds us close. As deeply as we hate it, it loves us more” ― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn

17. “The more we do for others,
The more we feel connected,
The more we feel a part of things,
The easier it is to have hope.” ― Shellen Lubin

18. “I used to dream about meeting him. Barry Allen. The Flash. I’d write little stories in my head about the connection we’d share. That he would see how alike we were and then the Flash would know how much he meant to me and feel the same. It’s a shame, but I doubt that I’ll ever meet the Flash to tell him how I feel. That even though I had no one in my life, his sense of hope was a light in the darkness of the future. And as long as I had that… I was never alone.” ― Eobard Thawne “Reverse Flash”

19. “We have always had a curious connection to birds in my family. My grandfather was even called the Birdman of Havana because he kept pigeons. He named them after family members long since gone. I spent my childhood believing the birds were actually these people, simply transformed. I remember the musty, sweet scent of them. I remember the bloom of dust on their wings. My favorite was the one named after my mother. When my grandfather died, my brother set the birds free and I hated seeing them fly away. I did not want them to leave me, as nearly everyone I had ever loved had left me. But my brother said we were free like them now, and we left to cross the straits that very night.” ― Sarah Addison Allen, Other Birds

20. “Sunsets are proof that we don’t need to touch someone to feel them.” ― Nida Awadia

Sunsets are proof that we don't need to touch someone to feel them.

See also: 90 Sunset Quotes To Appreciate The Beauty Of Nature

Power Of Connection Quotes

1. “Our ancient experience confirms at every point that everything is linked together, everything is inseparable.” ― Dalai Lama XIV

Our ancient experience confirms at every point that everything is linked together, everything is inseparable.

2. “Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. . . . Story is an affirmation of our ties to one another.” ― Terry Tempest Williams, Pieces of White Shell

3. “when two aliens find each other in a strange place, it feels a little more like home.” ― Jomny Sun, Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too

4. “There are all these people here I don’t know by sight or by name. And we pass alongside each other and don’t have any connection. And they don’t know me and I don’t know them. And now I’m leaving town and there are all these people I will never know.” ― Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding

5. “Remember your connection with the cosmos. Remember your connection with the infinity and that remembrance will give you the freedom.” ― Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step

Remember your connection with the cosmos.

6. “Family was even a bigger word than I imagined, wide and without limitations, if you allowed it, defying easy definition. You had family that was supposed to be family and wasn’t, family that wasn’t family but was, halves becoming whole, wholes splitting into two; it was possible to lack whole, honest love and connection from family in lead roles, yet to be filled to abundance by the unexpected supporting players.” ― Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

7. “Secrets make life more interesting. You can be in a crowded room with someone and touch them without touching, just with a look, because they know a part of you no one else knows. And whenever you’re with them, the two of you are alone, because you see no one else can.” ― Mohsin Hamid, Moth Smoke

8. “I don’t mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart; the same way you can hear a song in your head even if there isn’t a radio playing; the same way you can hear those blackbirds flying when they’re not in the sky” ― Adam Rapp, 33 Snowfish

9. “I look at the moon, and I can’t help but think of everyone else on the planet who’s looking up at it, too, and how alone I am, even though we’re all here on the same Earth. I think about the fact that we should all be connected, but we’re not. We’re too preoccupied trying to hurt each other. It makes me think of how hypocritical I can be, and the mistakes I’ve made, and the ways I’ve hurt people, too.” ― Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

10. “Real understanding starts when we begin to realize that trust moves the world.” ― Bhuwan Thapaliya

Real understanding starts when we begin to realize that trust moves the world.

11. “On a long flight, after periods of crisis and many hours of fatigue, mind and body may become disunited until at times they seem completely different elements, as though the body were only a home with which the mind has been associated but by no means bound. Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses. You see without assistance from the eyes, over distances beyond the visual horizon. There are moments when existence appears independent even of the mind. The importance of physical desire and immediate surroundings is submerged in the apprehension of universal values.” ― Charles A. Lindbergh, The Spirit of St. Louis

12. “He felt lighter than he had in weeks, and he realized that the monster he had been running from wasn’t really a monster after all. It was simply that place in the heart that holds the measure of your history, the joy and the grief, the laughter and the tears, the magic and the wonder; all the ingredients that add up to the story of a life well lived.” ― Lilli Jolgren Day, The Wonder of Ordinary Magic

See also: 220 Inspiring Quotes About Laughter Celebrating Its Magic

13. “In our opposed forms of loneliness and self-recognition and recognition of the other, we touched each other often as we spoke; and on shore in explorations of the past, we strolled with our arms linked…” ― Harold Brodkey, Profane Friendship: A Novel

14. “The reason why people in traditional marriages tend to stay together for a lifetime is because it is ‘standard’ to sacrifice novelty for longevity, while some of us [the modern ones] who value sensuality and depth of connection in a relationship or marriage find it absolutely preposterous to sacrifice novelty for longevity—the price is just way too high, that is if you truly understand what’s really at stake.” ― Lebo Grand

15. “I think there’s some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.” ― Alan Rickman

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom

16. “Bridges, like the internet, have always stood for a closeness. For a connection between two end points. Now that they are gone we are more isolated, lonelier. Less likely to form a connection with other humans.” ― Ryan Gelpke, We Tragic Few

17. “Love and work are crucial for human happiness because, when done well, they draw us out of ourselves and into connection with people and projects beyond ourselves. Happiness comes from getting these connections right.” ― Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

18. “Nothing changes you as much as making new connections.” ― Kokone Nata

19. “Just as my writing is brought more meaning by the tears cried by those who read it, so we are making something all together, in our bodies and the spaces between us and the moments in which we touch.” ― Tilly Lawless, Nothing But My Body

20. “Relate to the softness of the heart like the air that you need to breathe. It’s your living connection to goodness. Open your heart and it lives.” ― John de Ruiter

It’s your living connection to goodness. Open your heart and it lives.

21. “Music connected me with something outside myself, even if only for a moment. For that moment, it held my fears at bay and with each passing day, helped me climb up from the dark pit that had once seemed bottomless.” ― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After – A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

22. “No amount of geographical disconnect can separate us. We are already connected in every thought. We are already making our way through every challenge together.” ― Bella Bloom

23. “A bond between souls is ancient – older than the planet.” ― Dianna Hardy, The Witching Pen

24. “We’ve got a bond in common, you and I. We are both alone in the world.” ― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

25. “He stirred my soul in the most subtle way and the story between us wrote itself.” ― Nikki rowe

He stirred my soul in the most subtle way and the story between us wrote itself.

26. “But as time goes on we not only remember specific things in relation to the people we have loved; their lives get built into our lives and finally the transference is complete. We are what we are because of them.” ― May Sarton, Plant Dreaming Deep

See also: 120 How Time Flies Quotes To Seize Life’s Fleeting Beauty

27. Connecting with someone is not necessarily a bond with a significant other, or even a friend, but can be indefinable – perhaps the rarest and most precious thing in life to find at all.” ― Donna Lynn Hope

28. “A successful business is not built just on your expertise, it needs mastering of all the business pieces and maintaining the interconnection among them in a profitable and fruitful way.” ― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

29. “The core of compassionate artificial intelligence is the connection – connection to feel the pain and suffering of humanity. It is to develop integrated systems that can preserve and enhance human values of peace, love, harmony, happiness and freedom.” ― Amit Ray, Compassionate Artificial Intelligence

30. “Nature is interconnected.” ― Lisa Kemmerer, Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

Nature is interconnected.

Instant Connection With Someone Quotes

1. “I can’t explain why your name seems so familiar to me, or why it feels like I’ve heard your voice a thousand times before, but I can explain this ~ you’re the type of chaos I’d bleed for.” ― Nikki Rowe

I can't explain why your name seems so familiar to me, or why it feels like I've heard your voice a thousand times before

2. “She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.” ― E.M. Forster, Howards End

3. “A physical attraction is often desired above many things but you’ll discover it to be short lived. Find yourself someone that gets under your skin, seduces the dusty corners of your heart, and provides you with a mental connection. That is when you’ll know true intimacy.” ― M.J. Abraham

4. “Connecting with someone is not necessarily a bond with a significant other, or even a friend, but can be indefinable – perhaps the rarest and most precious thing in life to find at all.” ― Donna Lynn Hope

5. “Intensity of connection,
Depth of emotion,
Unified thoughts,
No doubt in the significance of you.” ― Truth Devour, Wantin

Intensity of connection

6. “What you seek is seeking you.” ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

7. “The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.” ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

8. “When you have two people who love each other, are happy and gay and really good work is being done by one or both of them, people are drawn to them as surely as migrating birds are drawn at night to a powerful beacon. If the two people were as solidly constructed as the beacon there would be little damage except to the birds. Those who attract people by their happiness and their performance are usually inexperienced. They do not know how not to be overrun and how to go away. They do not always learn about the good, the attractive, the charming, the soon-beloved, the generous, the understanding rich who have no bad qualities and who give each day the quality of a festival and who, when they have passed and taken the nourishment they needed, leave everything deader than the roots of any grass Attila’s horses’ hooves have ever scoured.” ― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

9. “I looked at this man and thought: Oh, how we are going to hurt each other.” ― Catherynne M. Valente, In the Cities of Coin and Spice

10. “Visiting people and inviting them over is a skill; making true connections is an art.” ― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, MODI-fied LEADER-ship

Visiting people and inviting them over is a skill; making true connections is an art.

11. “But Catherine did not know her own advantages – did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.” ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

12. “She frowned. “I did nothing to arouse you.”

He clenched his jaw, his stare growing more aggressive. “You breathed.” ― Shayla Black, Possess Me at Midnight

13. “If somebody never gets enough of you, they will always want more” ― Ashly Lorenzana

14. “Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.” ― Andy Warhol

15. “It’s the unknown that draws people.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

It’s the unknown that draws people.

16. “He drew me like gravity.” ― M. Leighton, For the Love of a Vampire

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17. “You don’t always get to chose who you fall in love with” ― Stephani Hecht, Primal Passions

18. “You are my winter suddenness—a glass of red wine spilt across a white tablecloth” ― John J Geddes

19. “The ability to find sparks may be buried so deep in you that you stop believing there’s a God. Until someone comes along, with so much light in her that you can’t help but see your own, and when you’re together,that light grows even brighter.” ― Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith

20. “The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.” ― Carl Sagan

We are a way for the universe to know itself.

Stay Connected Quotes

1. “You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.” ― Stefan Molyneux

You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.

2. “Remember that you’re intimately connected to everyone else in the world, so when you attack another person, you attack yourself.” ― Sonia Choquette

3. “My fear of being real, of being seen, paralyzes me into silence. I crave the touch and the connection, but I’m not always brave enough to open my hand and reach out. This is the great challenge: to be seen, accepted, and loved, I must first reveal, offer, and surrender.” ― Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

4. “Successful relationships are those relationships were conflicts are successfully resolved and in fact peoples intimacy, closeness, and love are enhanced through the resolution of conflicts. I have always become closer to my wife and to my friends when we have conflicts and work through them successfully because conflicts will always arise. They are an opportunity for intimacy, self-knowledge, and a greater connection.” ― Stefan Molyneux

5. “Connect with your creative side.” ― Mitta Xinindlu

Connect with your creative side.

6. “How can you and I connect
commune
collaborate in any real way
if much of the space between us is hidden
or
that social travesty called “white lies”?” ― Shellen Lubin

7. “Emotional closeness…. is to find sustenance in a relationship….that kindles you to know and be known in a meaningful way…planting seeds of trust and lighting you inside….yet inviting you to be playful…for it is a desire to share your inner world with another….thus wrapping another into your warmth……” ― Jayita Bhattacharjee

8. “Recollecting the treasured memories…. strengthens the shared meaning …. and builds deeper emotional connection…it is a relational way of reminiscing the olden memories…By opening them again with the other….it becomes a throwback to the forgotten past….but as you gather those times…it becomes a shared moment cuddling by the fire…for no longer are they memories frozen mutely in time…rather a melting past revived to savor a lifeless relationship….” ― Jayita Bhattacharjee

9. “The threads of interconnectedness are complex. They are both fragile and unbreakable. One must be grateful for destiny’s gifts along the way.” ― Donna Goddard, Circles of Separation

10. “We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.” ― Brené Brown

We're hardwired for connection.

11. “Prayer is a connection between you and your God. When that connection is secure, nothing can break you at all. Each time you are heartbroken, you will find inner healing, because God knows how to make that happen.” ― Gift Gugu Mona, Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man

See also: 120 God’s Time Quotes To Teach You About Faith And Patience

12. “Without a story, people aren’t going to connect to what you’re telling, what you have a pain point about. It’s so important for them to know why you’ve created the company, without that connection to the broader vision that you have – why are you going to do it? What are you going to accomplish?” ― Payal Kadakia

13. “Our circumstance at birth is that we are placed on a planet with no prior choice and appointed sensation and awareness—and then nothing after it. There won’t be an opportunity to look back or to be ashamed. What to do? Walk the rock and see more of the earth? Fill our playtime with the current inventions? No, I want to go toward other people. Other moving humans. No technology or machine in the world could match the pricelessness of life. It’s universally precious. It can’t be saved and so has the most value.” ― Karl Kristian Flores, A Happy Ghost

14. “I was never one to connect. I’ve been that way my entire life. I went to work, kept my head down, and came home. I let old friendships fizzle. I orbited my family and all of you like a distant planet–there and yet nearly impossible to reach. I know I can’t survive alone.” ― Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

15. “When I run around with my children and keep my thoughts on the simple beauty of nature, I develop a great bond with the real world.” ― Jessica Marie Baumgartner 

When I run around with my children and keep my thoughts on the simple beauty of nature, I develop a great bond with the real world.

16. “Holding hands, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together.” ― Nicole Krauss

17. “And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us.” ― James Frey, The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

18. “Together, we will raise the dunes from the earth, and rain death from the sky. Together, we are capable of anything.” ― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

19. “Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.” ― Clare Ansberry, The Women Of Troy Hill: The Back-Fence Virtues of Faith and Friendship

20. “Isn’t everyone a part of everyone else?” ― Budd Schulberg

Isn't everyone a part of everyone else

Final Word

I hope that you have managed to find one among these connection quotes that captured the meaning you ascribe to connection.

Connection, synchronicity, togetherness, spirituality, energy – however you want to call it, it serves a purpose higher than we could ever imagine.

Let’s just hope that it serves us well!

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