Quotes About Connection

He had needed someone to see him, to understand; to astonish him, like the concert.

Mindfulness was a buzz-word in 2012 – took on steam by the time I was born. Mum said it was our last attempt to claim an emotional landscape before the undeniable march of apathy, the lack of any profound connection, the dullness.

Literature, which I have the honor to serve, is dear to me just because the noblest task it sets before itself is that of wiping out boundaries and distances.

The King sat down and I noticed that a brood of small transparent roots grew from the soles of his feet. 'Yes, I am also errant. My roots can find no soil and this is why they are visible.

María picked a thorn off the top of a maguey, made thread out of the sinews of the leaf, and told the maguey: 'Pardon me for taking your needle, pardon me for threading the needle with your body, pardon me for love, pardon me for I am what I am, and I do not know what this means.

You can't love anyone until you have drawn blood and dipped in your fingers and enjoyed it.

Mi estómago era el lugar donde se asentaba la sociedad, pero también el punto por donde me unía con todos los elementos de la tierra.

Houses are really bodies. We connect ourselves with walls, roofs, and objects just as we hang on to our livers, skeletons, flesh and bloodstream.

I am never lonely, Galahad. Or rather I never suffer from loneliness. I suffer much from the idea that my loneliness might be taken away from me by a lot of mercilessly well-meaning people.

Houses are really bodies. We connect ourselves with walls, roofs, and objects just as we hang on to our livers, skeletons, flesh and bloodstream. I am no beauty, no mirror is necessary to assure me of this absolute fact. Nevertheless I have a death grip on this haggard frame as if it were the limpid body of Venus herself.

I often feel I am being burned at the stake just because I have always refused to give up that wonderful strange power I have inside me that becomes manifested when I am in harmonious communication with some other inspired being.

I became so at ease with her that for one moment I forgot all etiquette

If only I could give you my total soul in one kiss

Before you, that another will possess me after you and would you enjoy it the less if another was happy at the same time as you?

The strongest relationships are between two people who can live without each other but don't want to.

Many marriages would be saved if we would only listen with the same passion that we feel about wanting to be heard.

Nothing you say can ensure that the other person will get it, or respond the way you want. You may never exceed his threshold of deafness.

Whole-hearted listening is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to the other person.

It's a cliché, but also a deep truth (as cliché's tend to be), that you can't love another person very well if you don't love yourself.

The miracle is that your children will love you with all your imperfections if you can do the same for them.

Through words we come to know the other person--and to be known. This knowing is at the heart of our deepest longings for intimacy and connection with others. How relationships unfold with the most important people in our lives depends on courage and clarity in finding voice.

I've yet to meet the person who aspires to be phony or invisible in her closest relationships.

Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.

Empathy requires us to step outside of our own agendas long enough to develop an understanding of the other person's perspective. It can be rightly stated that no relationship will be whole without ongoing displays of empathy.