Quotes About Connection

Saint Simeon once said that tears are a sign of the Holy Spirit's presence.

You know what, Gwen?" he managed, once he'd caught his breath. -"What?" "I'm glad you picked me as your birthday present." -Ethan Banks

You are a medium," Marta said. "Although so is everybody a medium, an involuntary host to free-floating misery. But you're a more available one.

I wanted to escape my head because my head is so stupid these days. I wanted to be inside someone else's head.

With a family of six, there is always something to make, create and do together.

Family comes first. You're the only thing they have.

I believe that when you put a smile out there, you get a smile back.

Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don't want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them.

Kids who know they're cared for and cared about have fewer behavioral problems and stronger relationships. •

First evidence of this is when a toddler points to things. Finger-pointing is code.

Das Lieben. Das Lieben is schoen. Schoener als das Singen. Das Lieben hat zwei Personen. Das ist beim Lieben der Kummer.

Der Mutterschoss ist keine Einbahnstraße.

Unconditionally! Love is always unconditional, you see. Haven't you…haven't you ever loved a woman?

Si sa infatti che il vero bisogno, quando lo si avverta nella voce, quando lo si legga sul volto, ha il potere di chiudere le borse.

The ones you love are the ones you're bound to hurt the most, that's the law of love.

Embarrassment seems to be the sole means of communication between parents and children.

Udii il suo respiro; non so per quanto tempo, ma lo udii chiaramente, poi lei riattaccò. Io sarei rimasto a lungo così, con il ricevitore in mano, solo per sentirla respirare.

A régebbi zeneszerzÅ'k közül nekem Chopin és Schubert a legkedvesebb. Tudom, hogy a zenetanárunknak igaza volt, amikor Mozartot mennyeinek, Beethovent nagyszer?nek, Gluckot páratlannak, Bachot pedig hatalmasnak nevezte; tudom. Bach nekem mindig olyan, mint egy harminckötetes dogmatika, amely bámulatba ejt. De Schubert és Chopin két olyan földi lény, amilyen alighanem magam is vagyok.

Es gibt ein Mittel gegen die Einsamkeit, die einen plötzlich in einer fremden Stadt überfällt: etwas kaufen: eine Ansichtskarte, einen Kaugummi nur, einen Bleistift oder Zigaretten: etwas in die Hand bekommen, teilnehmen am Leben dieser Stadt, indem man etwas kauft [...]

Strangely enough I like the kind to which I belong: people.

One would like to know, for most people, being denied reliable telepathic communication, reach for the phone, which they feel is more reliable.

Most people, being denied reliable telepathic communication, reach for the phone, which they feel is more reliable.

Yes, we had made and excursion into another world and we had come back, but we had brought the joy of life and of humanity back with us. In the rush and whirl of everyday things, we so often live alongside one another without making any mutual contact. We had learned on the North Fae of the Eiger that men are good, and the earth on which we were born is good."(p.126)

They were nice, friendly people, and they invited us to share their fire and drink a cup of rancid butter tea with them.