Quotes About Connection

I get a kick out of people who talk like it only happened to them," says lawyer Denis Kelly. "I wonder, 'Didn't you notice that everybody else is going through it?

The gift of empathy opens us up when the tendency to shut down and turn away from the world is often at its greatest.

Finding your own metaphor for intuition is one of the best ways to give it form, an essential step in developing your intuitive thinking.

Soul-to-soul contact sweeps through, like a tsunami, leaving in its wake just this: unconditional surrender and overwhelming gentleness.

The unrealistic belief that we are somehow entitled to go through life unmoved by other people's suffering further limits our ability to cope with our own.

All the reasons you fell in love are still there, but perhaps buried under worries and responsibility. Find them again, then hang in there. Truly, the best is yet to come.

I cannot imagine a world in which one can read Jane Austen only once.

Here is an unbroken space in which a woman and a man may with the full sanction of society, practically make love to each other with their eyes, their fleeting touch, and the display of their bodies. Emblem of marriage, indeed.

Might I point out that nobody connected with my agility class has ever been murdered?

The sweetest thing I've ever known was like the kiss on the collarbone, the soft caress of happiness, the way you walk, your style of dress, I wish I didn't get so weak, oh baby just to hear you speak, makes me argue just to see how much your in love with me

Je cherchais une âme qui et me ressemblât, et je ne pouvais pas la trouver. Je fouillais tous les recoins de la terre; ma persévérance était inutile. Cependant, je ne pouvais pas rester seul. Il fallait quelqu'un qui approuvât mon caractère; il fallait quelqu'un qui eût les mêmes idées que moi...

Que se disent deux cœurs qui s'aiment ? Rien.

Man is forever the same; the same under every form, in all situations and relations that admit of free and unrestrained exertion. The same regard which you have for yourself, you have for others, for nature, for the invisible ... which you call God.

Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.

The greatest act of love was to make a tape for someone. It was the only way we could share music and it was also a way of advertising yourself.

This is the starting point of dance: something -- the music, the steps, your partner -- holds you but you also have to hold it and, to achieve the necessary tension, hold yourself against it.

There are times when we need the rocket fuel of singing and dancing to power us through an act of blind faith. Falling in love is one of those times, when we need to move into a phase of enchantment with enough force so that when things cool and the air clears, we are locked into that person, that love. We fall in love and we sing as we walk down the street; we turn up the music and dance.

I've nursed a lifelong love affair with movement, straying ever farther from those I love most. But somewhere along the way, it dawned on me that I was always traveling with family - because the act of travel, to the extent that it separates us from our relatives, also extends, manifests, multiplies, and completes family.

Sometimes the strongest bonds are easy to overlook in the darkness. And sometimes, that's where you find them.

La relación entre ambos se basaba en la admiración y el respeto mutuos y en el amor

Al besarse, eran sólo un hombre y una mujer

She's had so little love, Jesse thought, I will drown her in it for the rest of her life.

Touch me, he thought, my arm, my hand, a finger. Let me know it's all right for me to have these feelings for you.

Dímelo otra vez —pidió, insaciable. —¿Qué? —lo provocó. —Ya sabes qué. Dímelo. —Te amo. —Otra vez. Tengo que oírlo una vez más. —Te amo. —¿No te cansarás nunca de que te pida que me lo digas? —No tendrás que pedírmelo. —Ni tú a mí. Te amo.