Quotes About Connection

I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night. I want to stir the pulse, yes, but also to stir the heart. I hope 'The Woods' does that.

I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.

If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough... You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.

Sure, on a larger scale, it was healthy to have people out there you cared about more than yourself. She knew that. But then there was the abject fear you would lose it. They say possessions own you. Not so. Loved ones own you. You are forever held hostage once you care so much.

Love Ain't Nothing but Sex Misspelled

The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the wall of our own homes.

There is a bond of fellowship in sorrow that knows no conventionality.

Her face was a face to go with one through the years, and to live still in one's dreams when the sap of life is gone.

There is a bond of fellowship in sorrow that knows no conventionalities.

[Poems] are necessarily about other poems; a poem is a response to a poem, as a poet is a response to a poet, or a person to his parent.

I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough.

Rereading old books is the highest form of literary pleasure and instructs you in what is deepest in your own yearnings. Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you, because it is, at least in my experience, the most healing of pleasures. It returns you to otherness, whether in yourself or in friends. Imaginative literature is otherness and as such, alleviates loneliness.

In our opposed forms of loneliness and self-recognition and recognition of the other, we touched each other often as we spoke; and on shore in explorations of the past, we strolled with our arms linked...

Reading is an intimate act, perhaps more intimate than any other human act. I say that because of the prolonged (or intense) exposure of one mind to another.

And what is love? My measure of it is that I should have died to spare her. Her measure is for us to be together longer. I

They would walk in silence to Adams House, and Elgin would sign Caroline in at the policeman's room. In silence they would mount the stairs, and Elgin would unlock the door of his room, and then they would fall into each other's arms, sometimes giggling with relief, sometimes sombre, sometimes almost crying with the joy of this privacy and this embrace. Then

Approach each session as an occasion to practice being with another without expectation.

The less harshly we judge ourselves, the more accepting we become of others. People want to be around you if you feel enthusiastic about yourself and others. Just as dissatisfaction with yourself is contagious, so is enthusiasm.

We Were Created as Emotional Beings

What would music, art, poetry, or literature be without emotion?

Ignoring emotional feelings never contributes to the stability of a marriage or any other relationship.

We love our dear ones deeply and miss them when they leave us. But we know that the bond of love is greater than death.

life is trying to teach us one thing: to see the Eck, the Holy Spirit, in the eyes of all we meet

Sooner or later, we all learn that our immortality is rooted not in our professional involvements and achievements, but in our families. In time, all of our wins and losses in the workplace will be forgotten. If our memories endure, it will be because of the people we have known and touched.