Quotes About Connection

We were sufficiently similar to understand each other easily, and sufficiently different to surprise each other.

You think with your body, not with your brain.

psychologist Eckhard Hess described the pupil of the eye as a window to the soul. I reread it recently and again found it inspiring.

There was no particular reason to do so, but your mind automatically assumed a temporal sequence and a causal connection between the words bananas and vomit, forming a sketchy scenario in which bananas caused the sickness.

Wir sind immer in Geschichten

Gauß kam auf den Zufall zu sprechen, den Feind allen Wissens, den er immer habe besiegen wollen. Aus der Nähe betrachtet, sehe man hinter jedem Ereignis die unendliche Feinheit des Kausalgewebes. Trete man weit genug zurück, offenbarten sich die großen Muster. Freiheit und Zufall seien eine Frage der mittleren Entfernung, eine Sache des Abstands...

But why people? I asked. What does he care about people? He's a bear.

Matrimonio. El secreto está en que, a pesar de todo, nos queremos. Yo no querría vivir sin ella: echaría de menos hasta su risa de actriz. Ni ella sin mí. Si no nos crispáramos tanto los nervios el uno al otro… Vete mientras

Ehe. Das Geheimnis ist, dass man sich ja doch liebt. Ich würde nicht ohne sie sein wollen - selbst ihr Schauspielerlachen würde mir fehlen. Und sie nicht ohne mich. Wenn man einander nur nicht unterdessen so auf die Nerven fiele.

Its easy to make frends if you let pepul laff at you.

Through the ages, an impressive number of philosophers—from hedonists to transcendentalists—have rated friendship as life's greatest pleasure.

I]t tends to be a sort of excess of friendship, and it is felt towards a single person." There is something charming about that phrase, an "excess of friendship." It beautifully captures the idea of overflowing with good feelings.

Loving and being loved affirmed one's sense of self and conquered feelings of loneliness and alienation. It kept one sane.

You cannot disconnect the future from the present and you cannot disconnect the present from the past. That's not how time works. Time moves in a continuous motion.

money isn't just physical; it's a spiritual reality. It's "spiritual" in that it isn't about folded pieces of paper, and it isn't about what those little slips of paper can buy. It is about people and relationships. Money is the buzz; the connection that makes our interpersonal networks rich and fulfilling.

these conversations typically lead quite quickly to

The "Eternal Circle," Dylan called it, the timeless story of the emotional loop between the singer and the audience, feeding on each other, one locked in the light, the other in the darkness of the theater, no one ever completely satisfied.

The writers we absorb when we're young bind us to them, sometimes lightly, sometimes with iron. In time, the bonds fall away, but if you look very closely you can sometimes make out the pale white groove of a faded scar, or the telltale chalky red of old rust.

Our parents are mysterious to us in ways that we can never quite be mysteries to them.

Ser alguém é sentir-se parte de algo que não nasceu e nem vai morrer em si mesmo. É uma teia que nasceu muito antes de mim, e que deve permanecer para além de minha existência.

Às vezes, penso que tudo isso faz parte de um caminho que hoje traço, mas que não foi inventado por mim. É um caminho seguro por ter sido pisado muitas vezes pelos pés descalços dos ancestrais. As marcas não são minhas, porém foram plantadas em mim.

Podem ir caçar, mas não se esqueçam de que nossa tradição nos lembra de abater apenas os seres da natureza suficientes para alimentar nosso corpo. Ninguém deve sacrificar um baripnia [parente] por esporte ou por prazer. Cada ser é nosso baripnia e devemos sempre respeitá-lo.

Eles [os indígenas] são parte de cada brasileiro que aqui habita, até dos que não têm ascendência indígena alguma, pois não se trata de sangue, mas, sim, de pertencimento.

Um povo sem memória ancestral é um povo perdido no tempo e no espaço.