Lasting Connection Quotes

To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life.

True friendship resists time, distance and silence.

At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.

We fought in 1974 - that was a long time ago. After 1981, we became the best of friends. By 1984, we loved each other. I am not closer to anyone else in this life than I am to Muhammad Ali. Why? We were forged by that first fight in Zaire, and our lives are indelibly linked by memories and photographs, as young men and old men.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.

Her business manager said, you know, Gilda [Radner] left you that house. That's when I decided to stay and test it out. And after about a month, the roots grew, and I didn't ever want to live anywhere else for the rest of my life - travel, yes, but not to live anywhere else.

Children leave. And parents stay behind. Still, some things are deeper than time and distance. And your father will always be your father. And he will always leave a light on for you.

I'm learning how to have a healthy form of love, how to make it lasting rather than just have it be a flash in the pan.

I think the term 'friend' itself has lost almost all of its exclusivity. Even the term 'good friend' is overused. Adding the word 'vital' provides a clear definition of what we mean.

Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.

A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.

You may think you're in love when the passions of sex get hold of you, but if you didn't love the man before, you won't love him after. Like him, maybe, but not love him.

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else.

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

What I needed was a connection to life that was real and lasting.

Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.

Cote de Pablo is one of my best friends! We went to college together.

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.

I met a guy, very exotic to me - he was blonde with blue eyes - and I just had a fling that turned out to be love. I moved to San Francisco to spend a week with him and get him out of my system; I'm still here 26 years later.

You'll always be close to somebody that you worked with very intimately for so long, and you become really fond of each other.

Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.

I think people just like seeing friendship. I think people like seeing people who just drive each other up the wall, but at same time, can't live without each other.