Quotes About Connection

Carol, te quiero. Carol se irguió. Therese la miró con sus ojos intensos y adormilados. Carol acabo de sacar su pijama de la maleta y bajó la tapa. Se acerco a Therese y le puso las manos en los hombros. Se los apretó con fuerza, como si le exigiera una promesa, o quizá intentado averiguar si lo habia dicho de verdad. Luego la besó en los labios como si ya se hubieran besado millones de veces. - ¿Tú no sabes que te quiero?- dijo Carol.

Ela é tudo, é todas as coisas. Está à nossa volta, e está dentro de nós. Sem ela nada somos, e nunca poderemos contê-la na totalidade.

The Goddess has never been lost. It is just that some of us have forgotten how to find her.

How to Think Like Athena 1. Remove shoes. Stand on earth. 2. Find your center. Find your balance. 3. Lift chest. Drop shoulders. Let palms fall open at sides. 4. Open lips. Breathe. Feel air pass into self. 5. Open eyes wide. Look to the horizon. 6. Ask, what says the foot? Ask, what says the leg? 7. Ask, what says the sex? Ask, what says the heart? 8. Ask, what sees the eye? Ask, what hears the ear? 9. The mind is the body. Think everywhere at once.

She is all, she is everything. She is around us, and she is within us. We cannot be without her, and we can never encompass all of her.

When Cade entered a while later, he found her sitting stiffly in the rocking chair, a sleepy Serena on her lap cuddling her doll. Lily's eyes were blank and full of pain as they met his, and Cade seemed to feel her anguish spilling into him. He was an outsider, a man who never got close to anyone, but somehow this woman had got inside of him. He didn't like the feeling, but there wasn't anything he could do about it now. Jack's

She was doing it again. She was crawling down his collar and the back of his shirt and getting under his skin. Nobody else ever got close enough to disturb his equilibrium. Only Lily had the unmitigated gall to assume they were equals. I'm

Cade, this is foolish. I look like a beached whale. Allow me some decency. Instead, Cade flung the covers to the floor and straddled her legs, leaning over to rest his ear against her stomach. I think he speaks Apache, but I can't understand a word he says. Lily laughed softly and tried to push him away.

Lily closed her eyes in relief, then opened them again. Seeing through her eyes, Cade was aware of the shabbiness of the chambray shirt he'd strained at the seams, the calluses of his big hands, and the foreignness of his high-cheekboned brown face, but she seemed to see beyond these things. He hoped she saw beyond them. I

There are moments when everyone in the world is the friend of your heart and you must share its joy.

they were on the sort of terms which admit of intimacy, affection, and a familiarity which may breed anything between contempt and love. In fact a very wide frame into which almost any picture could be fitted.

my body has become another country and I feel like an unemployed illegal alien how will I survive where I do not belong I belong with you

and the rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart hunger will hold people in the palm of his or her hand

we should never forget that all our associates are human beings and hunger for appreciation. It is the legal tender that all souls enjoy.

Remember what Emerson said: "Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him." And

If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way.

But the attention he gave me, his appreciation of what I said, even when I said it badly, was extraordinary. You've no idea what it meant to be listened to like that.

people are growing more socially isolated than they were even twenty years ago:

they will have come to the same conclusions you've arrived at and the conversation will be a much more positive one.

ask about their day. But go deeper. Ask what made them laugh.

If you ask with respect and interest, you cannot go wrong.

No matter how "important" or successful you are, no one is immune to the pleasure of someone taking interest in you as a person

Professor Overstreet's wise advice: First, arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.

Come to think it over, I don't entirely agree with it myself. Not everything I wrote yesterday appeals to me today. I am glad to learn what you think on the subject. The next time you are in the neighborhood you must visit us and we'll get this subject threshed out for all time. So here is a handclasp over the miles, and I am, Yours sincerely