Quotes About Connection

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.

You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.

A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You, the people must git it this soul.

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

To love can mean 'to love oneself,' and often love is no more than a juxtaposition of two solitudes.

We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.

This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.

There were books about how to be gay; he'd seen them in stores and libraries. Some of them even had diagrams. But there weren't any diagrams about how to fall in love with your best friend and not fuck everything up.

Why bother? I was right all along: the second you make yourself vulnerable to someone, they start drawing blood.

I press my hands against my chest, wishing I could somehow be even closer to him. I hate skin; I hate bones and bodies. I want to curl up inside of him and be carried there forever.

I just want to know how you're made," Trevor breathed in his ear. "I love you so much, Zach. I want to climb inside you. I want to taste your brain. I want to feel your heart beating in my hands.

Love is the only good way many of us know how to feel alive.

I saw Ellen and my knees were weak. It was amazing. And it was very hard for me to get her out of my mind after that. Then when I saw her that night, we started talking, and that's that.

Any day of the week I would choose to be "out" with others and in touch with myself... then to be "in" with others and out of touch with myself.

I hope that what you are after is an exchange … not a reaction.

I hope we do feel and reason enough alike that I can play tricks on you.

Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is bravery

for a moment infinitesimal and infinite, men, women, child, ship, and death were one. It

You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too.

Friendship is like a tree; it needs care in early days when it's a small plant and when it grows to a size of a tree, it is there for you for a lifetime. Sadly, many plants face an unnatural, abrupt, and painful death.

You will get return the same things which you are giving to others.

This is all very personal for me, but it's also collective, and the two are not disconnected. I have never believed that you only advocate for the things that you stand for and embody. I've always believed that our liberation, my liberation, is tied up with yours. To make a country that works for me, there's gotta be a country that works for you.

SUFFERING together, is a greater bond of union than that of JOY.