Quotes About Connection

Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.

Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them. I

She felt a cozy solidarity with the big company of the voluntary dead.

Es una lástima que el brillo de los ojos de una persona solo sea el brillo de los ojos de una persona, y que uno no pueda descifrar con una sola mirada qué lo produce.

El amor es la única cosa. Atesora tu amor, niña. Vuelve junto a él. Vete a la cama con él. Es la única cosa.

My Own Then let them point my every tear, And let them mock and moan; Another week, another year, And I'll be with my own Who slumber now by night and day In fields of level brown; Whose hearts within their breasts were clay Before they laid them down.

Si nadie hubiera aprendido a leer, muy pocos se habrían enamorado Si nadie hubiera aprendido a desnudarse, muy pocas personas estarían enamoradas

Oh, look. Do you remember me? I was the one that said, not ten minutes ago, let's not talk about that dandy book.

She would have lacked that inner warmth which somehow survives despite the relentless drudgery and constant proximity to human suffering. Her patients to her would have been flesh, bones, blood, not people.

As it is the business of tailors to make clothes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.

George Herbert said, "He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself.

The Archbishop cradled his right hand in his left. He hung his head in concentration. The goal was meditation, but I've never been quite sure where meditation ends and prayer begins, or where prayer ends and meditation begins. I have heard it said that prayer is when we speak to God, and meditation is when God answers.

When we take the perspective of others, we can empathize with them.

There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.

42 is a nice number that you can take home and introduce to your family.

What I need... is a strong drink and a peer group.

Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though.

One is never alone with a rubber duck.

Even a manically depressed robot is better to talk to than nobody.

Despite the fact that an Indonesian island chicken has probably had a much more natural life than one raised on a battery farm in England, people who wouldn't think twice about buying something oven-ready become much more upset about a chicken that they've been on a boat with, so there is probably buried in the Western psyche a deep taboo about eating anything you've been introduced to socially.

Imagine he said, never even thinking, 'We are alone,' simply because it has never occurred to you to think that there's any other way to be.

Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and Universe there is a reason.

It's part of the shape of the Universe. I only have to talk to somebody and they begin to hate me.

It's reassuring to realize that everybody is as stupid as you are and that all we are doing when we are standing in the kitchen wondering what we came in here for is woking.