Quotes About Connection

It's weird, you know, the way so many people accept the notion that stone is inanimate, that rock doesn't move. I mean, really, this here cliff moves me every time that I see it.

The world and I reciprocate one another. The landscape as I directly experience it is hardly a determinate object; it is an ambiguous realm that responds to my emotions and calls forth feelings from me in turn.

Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils—all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness.

If we speak of things as inert or inanimate objects, we deny their ability to actively engage and interact with us—we foreclose their capacity to reciprocate our attentions, to draw us into silent dialogue, to inform and instruct us.

We are by now so accustomed to the cult of expertise that the very notion of honoring and paying heed to our directly felt experience of things—of insects and wooden floors, of broken-down cars and bird-pecked apples and the scents rising from the soil—seems odd and somewhat misguided as a way to find out what's worth knowing.

Me?utim, onaj ko ne voli pripadnike drugih naroda, ne voli, naglasio sam, ni svoj narod, te ako kažem da ne volim strance, ja u isto vreme priznajem da živim u praznini, lišen bilo ?ije ljubavi. A onaj u kome nema ljubavi, ni podarene ni ponu?ene, taj i više nije ljudsko bi?e, jer ljubav je ono što nas definiše u sistemu prirode koju nastanjujemo.

We have each other, and our stories twist and mingle like the twisting currents of a river. We hold each other tight as we spin and lurch across our lives. There are moments of great joy and magic. The most astounding things can lie waiting as each day dawns, as each page turns.

Can love help a person to get better?' I asked.

That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music.

On the most basic level, men and women are the same. We both need to love and be loved, to have someone we feel we matter to, and who matters to us.

We are the movies and the movies are us.

She sat, rediscovering the fullness of her first tongue in one long submersion. Again and again she would pause on a word Melio uttered. She would roll it around in her mind, feeling the contours of it. At times her mouth gaped open, her lips moving as if she were drinking in his words instead of breathing.

Sometimes she wondered about lung cancer, but on some basic, primal level she believed that she and any cancers that might grow in her system were one and the same being, and they would do her no harm. ?It was an idle, amusing thought

Facebook. No matter what else they're doin', these bastards never miss checking in on Facebook every day, several times a day. They go on, look at what people are sayin' on their pages, sometimes they answer and sometimes they don't and then they go back to their drug dealin' ways.

antics as much as her daughter did, and slid a plate in front of him. She'd poured him a cup of coffee when she'd heard his bathroom toilet flush, so he reached for the butter and syrup that were

Welcome to the dawn of Aquarius, where every thought is an identical, hexagonal section of the Hive Mind.

best songwriting partner I've ever had, but besides that, he's a pretty good guy. We have a sort of history together, but I won't go into that. I just have a bad feeling about this, and I don't think we're gonna see him again." Sam got back into his

realizes it's her own loneliness that she sees in him.

Moscow, Russia It is a commonly held belief that twins, especially identical ones, share an inherent understanding of their co-twin's emotional state. They report experiences of enhanced emotional or physical connection, such as having a feeling of something being wrong when their twin is in crisis.

The truth is, all I really want is someone who will care about me for who I am, rather than what I look like.

love was the condition that exists whenever another person's happiness and well-being is necessary for your own happiness and well-being.

They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers.

We moved from being a part of nature to being apart from nature.

No one will protect what they don't care about; and no one will care about what they have never experiened".