Quotes About Connection

we are starved for any touch with that which, in most cultures, was provided for by religion or by the equivalent of religion, and with us, there is hardly anything which is worth while to mention.

Genuine love increases the capacity to love and to give to others. The true lover loves the whole world, in his or her love for a specific person.

Das Wort Interesse stammt vom lateinischen inter-esse, das heisst dabeisein, beim anderen sein, nicht in sich selbst eingeschlossen sein.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: El amor inmaduro dice: "te amo porque te necesito". El maduro dice: "te necesito porque te amo" (Erich Fromm)

L]ove for a particular object is only the actualization and concentration of lingering love with regard to one person; it is not, as the idea of romantic love would have it, that there is only the one person in the world whom one can love, that it is the great chance of one's life to find that person, and that love for him results in withdrawal from all others.

Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are reduced from what man dreads: isolation

Any person who becomes aware even for a moment, of the fundamental, essential aloneness of himself as an individual, must feel insecure.

If two people who have been strangers, as all of us are, suddenly let the wall between them break down, and feel close, feel one, this moment of oneness is one of the most exhilarating, most exciting experiences in life. It is all the more wonderful and miraculous for persons who have been shut off, isolated, without love.

Ä°nsanlar?n çoÄŸu, sevgi konusundaki sorunlar?n?n sevilmemek olduÄŸunu ileri sürerler. Bu nedenle de bütün güçleriyle nas?l sevimli ve sevilebilir olacaklar? konusunda gayret gösterirler. Oysa as?l sorun sevilmemekte deÄŸil, sevmeyi bilmemekte gizlidir... Üretici bir biçimde seven bir kimse, kendini de sever. Yaln?zca baÅŸkalar?n? seven bir kimse ise, asl?nda hiç kimseyi sevmiyor demektir.

Estar concentrado significa vivir plenamente en el presente, en el aquí y el ahora, y no pensar en la tarea siguiente mientras estoy realizando otra. Es innecesario decir que la concentración debe ser sobre todo practicada por personas que se aman mutuamente. Deben aprender a estar el uno cerca del otro, sin escapar de las múltiples formas acostumbradas.

In the experience of love lies the only answer to being human, lies sanity.

Du bist der einzige Mensch, den ich liebhatte, obwohl ich ihn kannte.

Machthunger und Geldgier sind Geschwister, aber mit mir sind sie nicht verwandt

What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!

I am no longer a shuddering speck of existence, alone in the darkness;--I belong to them and they to me; we all share the same fear and the same life...I could bury my face in them, in these voices, these words that have saved me and will stand by me.

Love should not be polluted with friendship.

When we love each other we are immortal and indestructible like the heartbeat and the rain and the wind.

I am no longer a shuddering speck of existence, alone in the darkness; - I belong to them and they to me; we all share the same fear and the same life, we are nearer than lovers, in a simpler, a harder way; I could bury my face in them, in these voices, these words that have saved me and will stand by me.

She was very beautiful and he felt he loved her. She was not beautiful as a state or a picture is beautiful; she was beautiful as a meadow across which the wind blows. It was life that pulsed in her and that had formed her into what she was.

The simplest and the most incredible thing in the world had come true again: two people speaking to each other, each for himself; and sounds, called words, shaped the same images and feelings in that palpitating mass behind the skull, and out of meaningless vibrations of the vocal chords and their unexplainable reactions in the viscous gray convolutions, skies suddenly grew again in which were mirrored clouds, brooks, past times, growth and decay and hard-won wisdom.

he begins to notice that he has been turned out of the silent company of the trees, the animals, the stars, and the unconscious life.

Üksindus – elu igavene refrään. See ei olnud ei pahem ega parem kui mõnigi muu asi. Sellest räägiti liiga palju. Inimene on alati – ja mitte iial – üksi.

We live in rooms too much, I say. We think too much in rooms. We make love too much in rooms. We despair too much in rooms. Can you despair in the open?

Here where you stand, a young Etruscan woman stood in just the same way three thousand years ago—and the wind came in just this way from Africa and chased the light across the ocean.