Quotes About Connection

Det korteste streif av ekte kjærlighet kan gi næring til et helt liv. Det må vi alltid huske.

I have dreamed of our bed as if it were a shore where we would be washed up, not this striped mattress we must cover with sheets. [from "After an Absence"]

The trip home always seemed to take half the time, because Murphy and Little Paint were eager for their dinner. We clung like burrs on their backs and rode like the wind. We were eager for our dinner too.

We'll see each other in about fifteen minutes

Corporate prayer transformed Karla's small, cold isolation cell into a holy room where God's child enjoyed solitude with her Creator.

I am happy to meet you, Nya," he said. "My name is Salva.

But [Patrick's] character is partly based on a boy named Mark who lived across the street from me when I was growing up ... I liked hanging out with him and was sad when he moved away after only a year in the neighborhood. I guess writing about Patrick is a way for me to spend more time with Mark.

The boy was still looking at him. "Your family?" he asked. Salva shook his head. "Me, too, " the boy said. He sighed, and Salva heard that sigh all the way to his heart.

shoulders. He seemed to know what Salva was thinking

Learning about our horses is learning about ourselves.

I need someone real, who will be right for me now, here, and soon. Until then I'm lost. I think I am mad at times." Because

I miss you every time that we say goodbye, even though I know I will see you the next day. I miss you when you are across the room, and I can see you. I miss you when you sit beside me and I cannot touch you.

Love shouldn't be binding, but freeing.

During this full moon we ask that our sanctuary always be there for us in our time of need.

Love, like Beauty, is suppose to take you somewhere. It has the possibility (the promise?) of taking you closer to yourself, closer to God, closer to life, to Spirit, to Mystery. No matter what you are loving.

All of this internet activity creates a feeling of community, a feeling of actual connection, and therefore has within in it, if you are authentic, if you are true, real risk. But what is this risk?... The risk, it might be argued, according to psychology, is to the ego, who might want a voice that is not one of many, but singular, unique. In this time of so-many-voices-talking, how does one become heard? And what, really, is important to hear?

On a day when you're tired, it's important to just say good morning to everyone so they're kind of aware that it's gonna be a good day. Jamie Lee Curtis told me that.

There's love, sweet love, for one and all-- For love is best for great and small.

Love is a bridge that links us heart to heart Mother and child can never live apart.

Keep thou an open door between thy child's life and thine own.

Humph. You have a spirit cougar

and only by assimilating into their community would they succeed.

This love is not a melting of self, a softened apprehension of the other. The loved one need not meet my gaze, acknowledge my presence, approve or know of me.

If I'm meant to love people, I should love everyone. What kind of tide can an ocean bestow if it picks and chooses the rocks it's willing to touch?