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Quotes About Connection

Sex is really only touch, the closest of all touch. And it's touch we're afraid of.
~ lawrence d h iii
Love is the hastening gravitation of spirit towards spirit, and body towards body, in the joy of creation.
~ lawrence d h iii
A man was like a child with his appetites. A woman had to yield him what he wanted, or like a child he would probably turn nasty and flounce away and spoil what was a very pleasant connection.
~ lawrence d h v
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
~ Lawrence Durrell
A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way; but then as you know, it is a law of love that the so-called 'right' person always comes to soon or too late.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Music is only love looking for words.
~ Lawrence Durrell
You and me could really exist
~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I see a similarity between dogs and me. Dogs are the true observers walking up and down the world thru the Molloy country.
~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
and balancing on eye beams/ above a sea of faces/ paces his way/ to the other side of day
~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.
~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Poetry is the shortest distance between two humans.
~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Empathy involves at least emotional sensitivity to others and at most an ability to understand another's point of view.
~ Lawrence Freedman
En este punto, las historias autobiográficas podían contribuir a que individuos dispersos y sin conexión encontraran una causa común a través de sus experiencias compartidas.
~ Lawrence Freedman
To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.
~ Lawrence Hill
To gaze into another person's face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity, and to assert your own.
~ Lawrence Hill
Someone knows my name. Seeing you makes me want to live.
~ Lawrence Hill
To gaze into another person's face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity, and to assert your own.
~ Lawrence Hill
Never have I met a person doing terrible things who would meet my own eyes peacefully. To gaze into another person's face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity, and to assert your own.
~ Lawrence Hill
Children don't say, "I had a hard day at school today; can I talk to you about it?" They say, "Will you play with me?
~ Lawrence J. Cohen
If they don't think we will play, they may not even ask. They just go about their business, and we go about ours, and we all miss chance after chance to reconnect.
~ Lawrence J. Cohen
Tuning in does not mean questioning our children about every little detail of their lives. Instead, tell an interesting story from your day; they might respond with a story of their own.
~ Lawrence J. Cohen
Getting on the floor also means joining in with play that we would rather ignore or eliminate.
~ Lawrence J. Cohen
In the words of John Updike, who often writes about the alienation of husbands and fathers, "If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money." Obviously Updike was making an understatement; fathering takes more than just being on speaking terms with our children.
~ Lawrence J. Cohen