Quotes About Connection

Es detestable pensar en el público, lo único interesante es pensar en una persona que te escucha.

Una carcajada entre dos personas es mucho más vinculante que un apretón de manos, que cualquier contrato.

No sé por qué me importaste tú cuando no me importaba ya nadie

Without love, there can be no true marriage; with love, there can be nothing else.

home was where the people someone cared about lived.

I wonder if treecats pray?

I wish I knew what he called himself. I'm sure that treecats have their own names for themselves." "Me, too," Stephanie agreed, "and I bet they have their own names for us, too. I just hope mine isn't 'Source of Celery.

Ah, but hame is where yer loved, lad

Of course. And you already know you have hers," Pei said. And then, whatever his culture might have demanded, he cleared his throat hard, harshly. "And mine," he said huskily.

Art is the act of triggering deep memories of what it means to be fully human.

one small thing I've learned these years, how to be alone, and at the edge of aloneness how to be found by the world.

We name mostly in order to control but what is worth loving does not want to be held within the bounds of too narrow a calling. In many ways love has already named us before we can even begin to speak back to it, before we can utter the right words or understand what has happened to us or is continuing to happen to us: an invitation to the most difficult art of all, to love without naming at all.

Backster did tell me that if you "pray" over your food, by sending it positive, loving thoughts, it then seems to accept its role in helping you stay alive—and these severe reactions no longer occur on the graph paper.

some of us live in big cities so we can be alone, so we can avoid ourselves, and yet by living within massive populations we can have help or love within reach if necessary.

His eyes touched lightly, and passed on.

The distance had been evaporated by humor

There is really one city for everyone just as there is one major love.

Love, dear friends, begins with curiosity.

Hey. You know second contact is pretty important too.

This is what e-mail is: either a cowardly way for people to ask favors of you that they would never ask in person, or a way for people to pretend they are having a friendship with you when they really are not.

Bon Iver, "Holocene

Loneliness is a kind of suffering you can alleviate. It's not something you have to endure, like grief.

We don't fall in love, we fall in lust. We ascend to love.

Culture now spreads at central nervous system speed. It's a shame that compassion doesn't.