Quotes About Connection

Trees have long been trying to reach us. But they speak on frequencies too low for people to hear.

Time has a different quality in a forest, a different kind of flow. Time moves in circles, and events are linked, even if it's not obvious that they are linked. Events in a forest occur with precision in the flow of tree time, like the motions of an endless dance. (p. 12)

I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.

I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.

The Lost Battalion's final radio transmission was, "Patrol 442 here. Tell them we love them.

When we root-root-root for the home team, we're rooting for our home as much as the team.

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.

What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?

Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than we know ourselves. We need them to tell us. We need them to say, "I know you, Al. You are not the kind of man who.

The only way to communicate is to understand what it is like not to understand. It is at that moment that you can make something understandable.

I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very happy when people have worn out my books, or that they're held together by Scotch tape.

Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off.

You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.

A man does not know whose hands will stroke from him the last bubbles of his life. That alone should make him kinder to strangers.

You will see at precisely what moment the writer ceases to think of his character as an instrument to be manipulated and think of him as someone with whom he has fallen in love. For it is always, must always be, a matter of love.

Precisely because she had tended and pitied, the desolation is hers as well.

The threat of being overwhelmed by difficult social interactions is dealt with by fixing a self-image in advance, by making oneself a fixed object rather than an open person liable to be touched by a social situation.

Thus narcissism is an obsession with "what this person, that event means to me." This question about the personal relevance of other people and outside acts is posed so repetitively that a clear perception of those persons and events in themselves is obscured. This absorption in self, oddly enough, prevents gratification of self needs; it makes the person at the moment of attaining an end or connecting with another person feel that "this isn't what I wanted.

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On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.

People educate each other through the mediation of the world.

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