Quotes About Connection

We love each other, saying that as if our love were something in us, or between us. No: Around us, breathing our two names in and out of its vast mysterious lungs— around us like a forest at night, a planetary atmosphere known only one small breath at a time, fruit at whose center little seeds sleep, thinking they know. from "He Glimpses the Breadth of Love

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Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.

But this too is true: stories can save us.

his love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered.

Quando nasce un amore non si è mai a corto di argomenti.

There are people who want to be on their own, to mark out their own territory and be quiet there, and there are people who are eager to invade that territory, to sit close to someone else.

whenever I wanted to know what the Irish people wanted I had only to examine my own heart and it told me straight off what the Irish people wanted.

The past isn't dead. It isn't even past." —William Faulkner

Under," he said in a shaky voice, "normal circumstances, I'd certainly be in love with you." "Nobody falls in love under normal circumstances," she said softly, rubbing his finger with her warm thumb. He restrained an impulse to look to see if there was still ink on it. "Love isn't in the category of normal things. Not any worthwhile kind of love, anyway.

All water has been everywhere, Bekah. What flows from your faucet was once frozen inside a glacier, and squeezed by unimaginable pressures at the bottom of the deepest sea, and rippling in a lightless lake in a cavern no living thing has ever touched. Also, it has almost certainly been inside a dinosaur. All water is one water, and all water remembers the past.

That intimacy is nice, too - knowing that you know so much about someone.

I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back.

The best exercise for your heart, is reaching out and helping somebody.

Baseball. If there's a more beautiful word in the English language. I have yet to hear it....baseball has served as such a powerful link between Dad and me, and later between me and my son.

A Cleaner thinks, If I'm feeling nervous, how the fuck are they feeling? They have to deal with me.

John Andrew Holmes, "No exercise is better for the human heart than reaching down and lifting another up.

No one achieves any great heights in life alone.

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I live to create value in peoples' lives and I measure myself by their reactions. I'm a love merchant. I trade in intangibles.

Be a lovecat," I replied. "And that means: Offer your wisdom freely. Give away your address book to everyone who wants it. And always be human.

Snip off the little worries and expressions of worry" like little branches atop a tall tree.28 If you are truly worried, sharing your concerns with others is like sharing a cold to help yourself feel better. You don't feel better; you just make someone else feel worse.

giving intangibles works like lighting candles. When you do it, you create more lit candles, not fewer.

When you give to grow others' capabilities, you create abundance in their lives. No matter who you are, you can give power to people too. It's a matter of understanding what intangible value you have that's worth sharing.