Quotes About Connection

It was as if in exploring each other, each of them discovered something of himself he had not yet learned to love.

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

Messengers and mountain bikers share a common chromosome.

In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind of cheating. You don't need to have direct communication. You can say, 'I can't describe it to you, but I will record it and send it to you.'

You light the Spark in my Bonfire Heart.

Are we all just satellites?

Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom add what will equal the generous first growths of our youth, yet friendship becomes insensibly old in much less time than is commonly imagined, and not many years are required to make it mellow and pleasant.

There is no gift more great than love.

for one moment in time, two lonely astronauts floating in space, finally find each other.

He looks at me. And smiles. "Just us remember?To the moon," he whispers.

We sway and disappear in each other's arms, and "So Far Away" starts crooning through the speakers, and for one moment in time, two lonely astronauts floating in space finally find each other.

Warm chairs. I don't know, like I'm sitting on someone's leftover germs.

He takes my hand, traces some lines on my palms..."And maybe one day we won't have to come all the way up here to be safe, you know? Maybe one day we can stay...down here...you know?

I can feel me again. And I fix what's been broken in me all along... I don't want to imagine hiding on the moon or being on some space adventure in the stars anymore. This is the world I want to live in. Right here. With him. Because for the first time in my life, being in Web's arms, I feel free.

Your eyes are so— I don't know— they do something weird to me..." "Yeah? Yours do something weird to me, too, Jonathan...

to accept people as they are. If I wait for others to be what I want them to be, I will never accept them. By looking at what my brother is not, instead of at what he is, I will never be able to sympathize with him, struggle with him, hurt with him, or rejoice with him.

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

How do you look upon other men as astonishing organisms? Only by so regarding yourself.

Everything has always been here one way or another. So it must know what it's doing. And since I am part of this everything, a good part of me must be all right just the way it is, and the way it's doing it.

I felt in holy vibration to things around me

spiritual life is not a life of laws and precepts but a life of participation, affection and love, a life mingled and mixing with God.

Any music comes from the inner mind and soul, reaching out to the unknown.

I certainly don't buy into the idea that positive attitudes can somehow mysteriously directly influence physical health outcomes.

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.