Quotes About Connection

Le bonheur individuel se doit de produire des retombées collectives, faute de quoi, la société n'est qu'un rêve de prédateur.

Releer no es repetirse, es ofrecer una prueba siempre nueva de un amor infatigable.

Mais nous relisons surtout gratuitement, pour le plaisir de la répétition, la joie des retrouvailles, la mise à l'épreuve de l'intimité.

Aimer c'est, finalement, faire don de nos préférences à ceux que nous préférons. Et ces partages peuplent l'invisible citadelle de notre liberté. Nous sommes habités de livres et d'amis.

Finding nemo took two hours, finding love take two people

In shamanic cultures, sychronicities are recognized as signs that you are on the right path.

It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can't watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor's tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.

I love coming home to somebody, I love being in a relationship.

As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time, that doesn't work for me. I'd just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh.

your mother's

You know what they say about family, don't you?" "What's that?" "It's the other F-word.

I thought of the infinitely many points that can divide the space between two human hearts.

Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away.

If you have been in the vicinity of the sacred - ever brushed against the holy - you retain it more in your bones than in your head; and if you haven't, no description of the experience will ever be satisfactory.

Stories make it possible for us to be human.

A community, a family, is a group of people who share common stories. The health of any community depends directly on the health of the stories the community embraces.

We are all wedded to our stories. It doesn't mean we are each hermetically sealed in our own little worlds, impervious to the influence of others. It does mean the only way to avoid such isolation is to listen, compassionately, to the stories of others.

It reinforced my sense of living in a coherent universe, of belonging to something important that stretched over time, of being a link in a chain - indebted to many in the past, mostly unknown to me, and responsible to many in the future, who likewise will not know who I was.

La amistad es una vía de dos direcciones.

la caridad, la generosidad, la valentía, son avenidas de dos vías.

We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas," noted Henry David Thoreau, "but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate."7

They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up.

They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up.

Nobody cares for getting belittled by a person you've had sex with. A person you've licked all over. Nobody wants to sit there and get run down too far by somebody who gives them a hard-on.