Quotes About Connection

Y todo se reduce a esto: en el momento en que entiendo verdaderamente a mi enemigo, en el momento en que le entiendo lo suficientemente bien como para derrotarle, entonces, en ese preciso instante, también le quiero. Creo que es imposible entender realmente a alguien, saber lo que quiere, saber lo que cree, y no amarle como se ama a sí mismo. Y entonces, en ese preciso momento, cuando le quiero...

the conversation of the mind was truer than any language, and they knew each other better than they ever could have by use of mere sight and touch.

It is a will for the species to survive with the self inside of it, part of it, tied to it, forever one of the strands in the web–

You are lonely…. And humans are not meant to be alone. It's in our genes. We're social beings. Even the most introverted person alive is constantly hungry for human association.

They loved Ender too, and knew him too; but in their grief, they leaned upon each other, a family that had strength to share because Ender had been part of them and healed them, or at least opened up the door of healing.

How suddenly we find the flesh of God within us after all, when we thought that we were only made of dust.

It was as if the boundary between friendship and love was so thin and imperceptible that one could cross it without even knowing it was there.

We are only human when we are part of a community.

I see Ender in you looking out at me. You see Ender in me looking out at you. And yet not one of us is truly him; we are each our own self, all of us strangers on our own road.

He had thought that he valued his solitude; now, though, with solitude forced upon him, he felt an urgent need to talk, to be heard by someone, as if he could not be sure he even existed without someone's conversation as evidence.

though darkness bound them closer than light.

knew what was written on his papers, or they would have been horrified, for he had written, "My body," "My spirit," and "My soul." Thus it was that he burned himself on Jiang-qing's funeral pyre, and sent himself with her wherever it was she was

Mas nesse momento, sua cabeça inclinada para trás, as folhas verdes e macias se movendo gentilmente na brisa quase imperceptível, sentiu um poderoso déjà-vu. Ele havia olhado para essas folhas antes. Recentemente. Mas isso era impossível. Não havia árvores grandes em Trondheim, e nenhuma crescia dentro do complexo de Milagre. Por que a luz do sol varando as folhas parecia-lhe tão familiar?

When I comfort you, you'll know it. And how will I know? Miro snapped back. Because you'll be comfortable, of course.

Doesn't it make you wonder about your own sexual identity, not to mention your sanity, that the two women you love are, respectively, a virtual woman existing only in the transient ansible connections between computers and a woman whose soul is in fact that of a man who is the husband of your mother?

It was a new thing in the world, to have someone to talk to who was not substantially yourself.

I don't have any knack for making people cry, Ela,' he answered softly. His voice was a caress. No, stronger, it was like a hand gripping her hand, holding her, steadying her. 'Telling the truth makes you cry.

think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

And no matter how well we think we know people, the fact is we're all strangers in the end.

The root of magic is love, the trunk is service.

How quickly we find the flesh of God within us all, when we thought that we were only made of dust.

Everyone dies. Everyone leaves. What matters is the things you build together before they go. What matters is the part of them that continues in you when they're gone.

Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others

we are strange indeed among all the plants and animals, who unlike us know their place, and if they think of God at all do not imagine him to be their kin, or themselves to be his heirs.