Quotes About Connection

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.

Make love! He disliked the phrase. Could one make love?

les gens se sentent seuls quand ils rêvent .

Je suis comme un pont fragile, reliant à travers l'infini le passé et le présent. Je serre la main maternelle. Je ne peux pas la laisser échapper, car sans moi ma mère serait seule.

Mind and body were well or ill together.

There should be a deep attachment, heart should be tied to heart between parent and child, for unless the child learns how to love a parent profoundly, I believe that he will never learn how to love anyone else profoundly, and not knowing how to love means the loss of the meaning of life and its fulfillment.

You see how loving kindness conquers fear, even in animals. Let this lesson be engraved upon your hearts.

All human beings have noses, eyes, arms, legs, hearts, stomachs, and so far as I have been able to

But the railroads are a new force. No hatred is in their history. They heal the wounds of the past, and they reach toward the future.

Come possono quei rozzi stampi che sono le parole contenere l'essenza e lo spirito dell'amore?

They stood, eyes meeting eyes, yet neither took the next step toward the other. "When I know what reward is great enough," she said, "then I will give it to you." "Because you live I am rewarded," he replied.

The truth is I cannot hate wholly enough to kill a man. I always know how he feels, too.

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and when he was weary he lay down upon his land and he slept and the health of the earth spread into his flesh and he was healed of his sickness.

The fruit of her life is her grandson who is not yet born.

It is the highest reward when a writer hears when a book written in doubt and solitude, has reached a human heart with a deeper meaning than even the writer had been aware of, as she wrote. It is something extra, the unexpected return.

Lo que nos hizo encontrarnos fueron dos historias que apenas se dieron la mano en medio de los acontecimientos. Y lo que aquí no pasó, no va a ocurrir en ninguna parte del mundo. Me enamoré de ti como una perra, y tú solamente te dejaste querer. ¿Qué podría ocurrir en Cuba que me ofrezca la esperanza de tu amor...?

We were brought together by two stories that barely even shook hands with each other in the midst of everything that happened.

Y allí soltaron la risa, y ahí rieron a más no poder, como si sus corazones salpicaran juntos el arrebato pendejo de un errante frenesí. Qué le importaba a ella lo que pasara, qué le importaría llorar el después, si en ese momento podría morir de solo mirarlo, de solo sentir su mano amarrándole los hombros con el cariño cotorro de su abrazo.

Por qué tuve que conocerte?, se preguntó la loca mirándolo desaparecer. Pudimos no habernos cruzado nunca.

It had to do with the way women throughout time has known the feel of love when it came to them.

When we touch the center of sorrow, when we sit with discomfort without trying to fix it, when we stay present to the pain of disapproval or betrayal and let it soften us, these are times that we connect with bohdichitta.

Don't let life harden your heart.

We can use our personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.