Quotes About Connection

Since I see technology as being an extension of the human body, it's inevitable that it should come home to roost.

Philosophy is surgery; surgery is philosophy.

She took his hands in hers and placed them on her breasts. "They ache a bit, you know. After all, they've been penetrated by two hundred and forty tiny titanium pellets. Like asteroids and a cosmic dust shower.

When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection that is the source of real intimacy and friendship.

There's a whisper of revolution whenever people really speak to one another and really listen.

Witness calls for with ness, the complete opposite of detached observation... To receive the witness of another is to enter into a vision that isn't accessible to us in isolation; we realize ourselves as members of one another and feel compelled to act accordingly, finding that we can't easily live with ourselves if we don't.

To fall in love successfully, you don't want too much self-awareness.

Everything you do right now ripples outward and affects everyone. Your posture can shine your heart or transmit anxiety. Your breath can radiate love or muddy the room in depression. Your glance can awaken joy. Your words can inspire freedom. Your every act can open hearts and minds.

The way a man penetrates the world should be the same way he penetrates his woman: not merely for personal gain or pleasure, but to magnify love, openness, and depth.

Your only real choices are to open fully and receive their gifts or crucify them and be relieved of their force...But you must be willing to feel your heart's terrors and wounds or else you will close and protect yourself, striking back at the source of openness you most yearn to become...

There is an explanatory link between ought and is, and this provides one of the ways in which reason can indeed address moral issues.

These past few days I've realised—we're strangers to each other. I feel like I'm standing outside their house and watching them through the window. I love them, of course, but more in memory than anything else. And love should be more than an echo.

Carquinez Strait

In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.

I do not think that Mulder trusts any one other than Scully. He s very solitary. She is the only one who takes him seriously. I don t know if they re in love. In a way, their relationship is deeper than that, because they cannot live without each other.

You and me, we were married and we lived in that small dark space between two people where marriage exists.

Love and trust are Siamese twins, as conjoined as Chang and Eng.

Dear Reader, let me tell you this: Love and trust are Siamese twins, as conjoined as Chang and Eng.

I've heard them say the heart's bottomless but I don't agree. I love my boys and girls but when my mind is clear I have to admit I wish I could give out more love.

Einar felt lonely, and he wondered if anybody in the world would ever know him.

I know someone loves me from how they say my name. Like with my mom and dad, when they say "Benjamin" it's like my name is safe in their mouth.

Isn't it interesting what a stranger can offer? A little wisdom, a little mercy, a little love.

Do you know what I miss most about Rosemary? Simply knowing she was there.

There was a terrible stretch of time in Einar's life - from the time Hans left Bluetooth until the day he met Greta at the academy - when he lived without anyone to reveal his secrets to. Lili could remember that, the feeling of biting down on one's thoughts and feelings and storing them up for no one.