Quotes About Connection

My son took many years to learn the simple truth. You cannot love any one person adequately until you have made friends with the rest of the human race also. Adult love demands qualities which cannot be learned living in a vacuum of resentment.

I can't give you anything but love, baby,That's the only thing I've plenty of, baby.

Love is the reason for it all.

Could it possibly be that he yearned for some of the same things she yearned for? Love. Someone to call your own. Someone to share the joys and the sorrows of life.

That night I experienced one of those sudden, unpleasant shifts of perception that occur to parents, when you notice a difference in your child that's been coming over a long time, and you're faced with it, and at the same time you're groping back to touch the child they were a minute ago, while a somehow unaccountable, unpredictable person is watching you, waiting for you to catch up with them, contemptuous because you haven't.

And because he loves me, he tries to understand me. It is my fear that stops me talking to him. Because even if it is irrational and it isn't what he wants to hear, Keith has loved me for so long, he'd find a way to make what I feel work for us both. I would do the same for him. That's what our love is about.

It's good to have things that you love. They keep you grounded, make you realise how much you've got to lose. It's good to love people. But if you don't have anyone you can truly give your heart to, then having something that means the world to you can often act as a good stand-in

It was the most natural thing in the world because from out of his mouth were coming most of the things I felt. In another person, one i did not have this attachment to, it would have been gushing, clingy and embarrassing, from him it was like having a mirror held up to my soul.

És a minha mais melhor amiga (...)

Friendships grow from small acts of kindness

For the first time ever we are bound together instead of miles apart in the same place.

That's what came from having romance in your soul, I suppose. You believed in things like love at first sight and perfect presents.

I want to tell her that this isn't 'love'. that 'love' doesn't stay the same, it changes like we do, it is shaped by our experiences, by what we do, who we meet, what we learn. I'd like to explain that falling in love now is not how it'll be forever, and even if you stay with the same boy for the rest of your life, this incarnation of love won't stay the same, it never does.

Maybe part of the problem of feeling like this life isn't my real life is that I have no connections, no real links to anyone.

No matter how much you may love someone, you never possess them. You can only ever borrow the right to spend time with them.

When you can't be honest with people, you can't ever relax with them.

That's what came from having romance in your soul. You believe in things like love at first sight and perfect presents.

He seems to have become a part of my life and I'm disappointed if I don't see him. If I get to the end of the day without seeing someone who reminds me of him, I feel as if a dull shadow has fallen over me.

I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.

For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have.

Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship.

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

we can love someone without understanding that person.

Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.