Quotes About Connection

You can't build a society purely on interests, you need a sense of belonging.

They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.

I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.

Designers are to be in connection with what's happening with the movement of society.

We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.

Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts itself off from its youth severs its lifeline; it is condemned to bleed to death.

Lovers are made by a kiss.

Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

Love is lak de sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.

Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.

When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. So they beat him down to nothing but sparks but each little spark had a shine and a song. So they covered each one over with mud. And the lonesomeness in the sparks make them hunt for one another.

My mom was onstage when she was pregnant with me.

A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.

To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.

We are sitting here and conquering their hearts.

The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this.

I wanted to drown inside a woman in the feeling and drooling of the love I could give her. I wanted her pulse to crush me with its intensity. That's what I wanted.

There was sex, of course. Nakedness. Wall to wall, in and out of my thoughts. But when it was over it was her whispering voice I craved, and a human curled up in my arms.

Names have a mysterious transforming power. Like a ring on a finger, a name may at first seem merely accidental, committing you to nothing; but before you realize its magical power, it's gotten under your skin, become part of you and your destiny.

For one who is having no personal experience, the passionate disquiet of others is at any rate a titillation of the nerves, like seeing a play or listening to music.

One only makes books in order to keep in touch with one's fellows after one has ceased to breathe, and thus to defend oneself against the inexorable fate of all that lives--transitoriness and oblivion.

It is not in craving after ready-made, complete and finished things that love finds its meaning -- but in the urge to participate in the becoming of such things.

Los celulares ayudan a estar conectados a los que están a distancia. Los celulares permiten a los que se conectan… mantenerse a distancia.