Quotes About Connection

Ma io volevo baci larghi come oceani in cui perdermi e affogare, volevo baci grandi e baci lenti come un respiro cosmico, volevo bagni di baci in cui rilassarmi e finalmente imparare i suoi movimenti d'amore.

Abbiamo bisogno di molto tempo per accettare la brutalità del fatto di non essere più soli

e noi stiamo bene a sentirci italiani e ne siamo anche fieri e orgogliosi che capiamo che questi legami qui sono nati tra la gente che lavora mica trattati a tavolino tra diplomatici o ministri del cazzo, che di loro ci vergognamo sì,altrochè.

Fra Leo e Thomas è ormai sorta, e incomincia a crescere di minuto in minuto, una energia che trae forza solo da sé stessa, da quei contatti fintamente causali, da quegli sfioramenti leggeri, da quegli sguardi muti. Non si sono ancora parlati. Le parole non sono contemplate in questo momento per entrambi primordiale, arcaico, in cui la vita chiama la vita attraverso la più profonda energia della specie.

Abbiamo bisogno di tempo. Di mettere tempo fra noi. Di vivere insieme, di viaggiare insieme, perché il nostro pensiero riconosca istintivamente l'altro; e lo riconosca come una presenza automatica di consuetudine e di affetto. Abbiamo bisogno di molto tempo per accettare la brutalità del fatto di non essere più soli.

E lui sa che per gli uomini la cosa più difficile è proprio stabilire un contatto con il mondo degli altri.

Human relations are becoming colder. Communications are becoming more hurried and impersonal. Values such as profit and efficiency are taking on greater importance at the expense of human warmth and genuine presence.

It's all really very simple. You don't have to choose between being kind to yourself and others. It's one and the same.

To be in the present with someone else is a gift. The gift of attention is perhaps the most precious and envied of all, even though we do not always realize it.

The heart follows a different kind of math: Acts of kindness and generosity increase our feeling of time affluence.

But when there is real warmth, no one is the same as everyone else, just as no two soups are alike. We are all unique. We are all loved for who we are, with our qualities and with our faults. We are loved because we are irredeemably ourselves. But when warmth decreases, we are all the same—all anonymous. Just as warmth brings to light our personalities and makes us feel special and indispensable, coldness can turn us into nameless shadows.

What we are able to say about our intimate relation with a book will have more force if we have not thought about it excessively. Instead, we need only let our unconscious express itself within us and give voice, in this privileged moment of openness in language, to the secret ties that bind us to the book, and therefore to ourselves.

Saya sudah menunjukkan secara panjang lebar dalam La distinction di mana cinta itu juga bisa dideskripsikan sebagai bentuk dari amor fati, bahwa mencintai sampai titik tertentu selalu berarti mencintai seseorang sebagai cara lain untuk memenuhi takdir sosialnya sendiri.

By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them.

Happiness seems made to be shared.

J'aurais tant voulu être aimé qu'il me semble que j'aime.

Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. (On relations with the US)

Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

Un paysage n'est pas seulement un état d'âme, c'est l'âme elle-même, si l'on veut entendre par là que mille liens m'attachent toujours à tout ce que je vois, et que sans cesse j'ai, devant des vues nouvelles, le sourd et ardent sentiment que je les connais, que je les connaissais de tout temps.

For us, nature's final accomplishment is contemplation, becoming aware, and a way of living in harmony with nature.

breathe the intellect which embraces all things as if it were the surrounding air....

Se habla a sí mismo, pero tenemos la impresión de que se dirige a cada uno de entre nosotros.

I worry when each of us is seduced by visions of the future that have no place for the other.

The solution as consumers is - perhaps surprisingly - to take adverts very, very seriously. We should ask ourselves what it is that we find lovely in them - the visions of friendship, togetherness, repose, or whatever. And then consider what would actually help us find these qualities in our lives.