Quotes About Connection

I've learned two things in my life. One that love is the beginning and end of all meaning. And two that it is the same thing whatever shape our souls have taken on this journey. Love is love. Is love.

Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.

Though neither of them had ever called their meeting a case of love at first sight, they'd both agreed it had certainly been a case of "pretty damned sure at first hour.

A man who wants to find out who he really is should try watching the woman he loves as she dances the tango with a maestro.

That amazing thing doesn't need my poem, but my poem still needs it, the way every poem still needs all the world.

What do you mean, speak louder? If I could speak louder, I wouldn't need a telephone.

The sound of the sea you hear in Proust, as if the whole book were a shell held to your ear, is the sound of the amniotic fluid, reminding you, across all your barriers of self-protection, that the first thing you ever heard was voices in the water.

They cheer me because they all understand me, and they cheer you because no-one understands you. —CHARLES CHAPLIN TO ALBERT EINSTEIN AT THE 1931 PREMIERE OF CITY LIGHTS

His advocacy and understanding of Victor Hugo led to a close friendship,

Outside of being home with my family, I prefer a crowd.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another What You, too Thought I was the only one.

Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Friendship is...the sort of love one can imagine between angels.

Prosperity knits a man to the world. He thinks he's 'finding his place in it,' while really it is finding its place in him.

Well, I'm a standing on a corner In Winslow, Arizona And such a fine sight to see, It's a girl, my lord, in a flatbed Ford Slowin' down to have a look at me.

I look around for the friends that I used to turn to to pull me through. Looking into their eyes I see them running too.

I gotta say, it feel good coming back home to the projects. Where I belong.

The morning will come In the press of every kiss, With your head upon my chest Where I will annoy you With every waking breath Until you decide to wake up.

God works through people by stirring their hearts and sometimes people never know how they are helping others.

There was always a big party on the night before anyone left for the States. They called it an American wake, because the whole community stayed up to keep the emigrants company through their last night on the island, just as they would have bidden farewell to a soul beginning the long journey towards eternity. There was almost no chance that anyone present would ever see the departed again

I've got you under my skin,I've got you deep in the heart of me,So deep in my heart, you're really a part of me,I've got you under my skin.

A hand shifts our birdcages around. Some are brought closer. Some move apart. Do not try to reason it out. Be conscious of who draws you and who not.

Beyond our ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase 'each other' doesn't make sense any more.

We were all born by accident but this wandering caravan will make camp in perfection Forget the nonsense categories of there and here, race, nation, religion, starting point and destination You are soul, and you are love,... No more questions now as to what it is we're doing here