Quotes About Connection

He turned his head and saw a daisy growing by his nose. He picked it, sniffed it, and then handed it to Carlitos, who lay beside him. Carlitos took it from him and was about to smell it too, but instead he crammed it into his mouth and ate it.

Lovers meander in prose and rhyme, trying to say- for the thousandth time- what's easier done than said.

Whoever touches the body of a patient, touches the body of Christ.

One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.

The stars and the rivers and waves call you back.

The race of gods and men is one, and from one mother we both draw our breath. Yet all the difference in our power holds us apart, so that man is nothing, but the brazen floor of heaven is eternally unshakable.

perché chi è cresciuto qui, per quanto possa sembrare impossibile a chi vi ha passato pochi giorni con gli occhi lacrimosi e la gola bruciante, ama il suo De-Efe di un amore viscerale ed appassionato...

You can only really open yourself up so far to someone that you don't truly love - you keep something back when you know somewhere in your gut that this relationship is going to be forever.

We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.

T]he distance between sympathy and sensuality is as short as that which separates those two words in the dictionary.

I love you like crazy, baby 'Cuz I'd go crazy without you.

Ah! a blessing beyond all fate My sole mate 'tis my soul mate.

...and when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment...

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

and when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment...

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Los Buendía no eran capaces de amar, y ahí está el secreto de su soledad, de su frustración. La soledad, para mí, es lo contrario de la solidaridad

Un poco de buena compañía, un poco de comprensión, inclusive un poco de amor es todo cuanto necesitan, y suelen agradecerlo. Un poco de todo nada más, por supuesto, porque su soledad es insaciable

It is a long time since I have had a letter from you. "There is nothing to write about," you say: well then write and let me know just this, that "there is nothing to write about," or tell me in the good old style, If you are well that's right, I am quite well. This will do for me, for it implies everything. You think I am joking? Let me assure you I am in sober earnest. Do let me know how you are; for I cannot remain ignorant any longer without growing exceedingly anxious about you. Farewell.

We are not separate from spirit, we are in it.

I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.