Quotes About Connection

But first I want your life: - before I die I want to see The world that lies behind the strangeness of your eyes There is nothing gay or green there for my gathering, it may be, Yet on brown fields there lies A haunting purple bloom: is there not something in grey skies And in grey sea? I want what world there is behind your eyes,

I want to see the world that lies behind the strangeness of your eyes.

Now I will burn you back, I will burn you through, Though I am damned for it we two will lie And burn.

She did not love You like the rest.

You were moon's eye to me pull and grained and mantling' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew

And, as I traveled farther and farther, exploring the rich, sweet soul of her, my sense of pleasant friendship became but a broad foundation for such height, such breadth, such interlocked combination of feeling as left me fairly blinded with the wonder of it.

It is not true, always, my dear,' said he, 'that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach; at least it's not the only way.

We do things FROM our mothers—not FOR them. We don't have to do things FOR them—they don't need it, you know. But we have to live on—splendidly—because of them; and that's the way we feel about God.

Do you know you are a real comfort," she told him suddenly. "I never knew a man before who could—well, leave off being a man for a moment and just be a human creature.

We all need one another; much and often. Just as every human creature needs a place to be alone in, a sacred, private "home" of his own, so all human creatures need a place to be together in, from the two who can show each other their souls uninterruptedly, to the largest throng that can throb and stir in unison.

The truly alive soul is tremblingly alive to the feelings of humanity

She had once told him that as soon as you placed your hands upon a stranger, they begin to talk. Everybody found it so, she said: hairdressers, nurses, nuns. It was dangerously easy to give in: human defences dissovled at another person's touch.

And how could this be? The 30's were the age you fell most dangerously in love, Adele had discovered, after the fact. Not with a man or a woman, but with your friends.

The point of an animal was not for it to love you; it was that you could love it. In all it's otherness, your unbelonging to its kind, it could yet receive-boundlessly-your love.

No, it wasn't lovers but friends - these courageous, shining people - you pursued, romanced with dinners and gifts and weekends away.

A life lived only for oneself - is a less lived life.

To coldfriend or coldfriending - Reaching out of the blue, via the internet, to a previously unknown person, for business purposes.

He said that I was his person," she told him. "He said that we all have people in the world we belong to. Connect with. And that I was his. He said that there was no denying it.

I think we can all agree that sleeping around is a great way to meet people.

Men don't realize that if we're sleeping with them on the first date, we're probably not interested in seeing them again either.

I don't know what it is about accents that makes me want to get undressed and high-five myself.

Es extraño lo fácilmente que perdemos contacto con lo que nos rodea, y lo vital que puede llegar a ser ese contacto.

Anyone who's a great kisser, I'm always interested in.

Prayer is a conversation between two people who love each other -you and the Lord-and you don't have to use fancy or religious words to dialogue with him.