Quotes About Connection

Charles laughingly observed,'Gospel and the blues are really, if you break it down, almost the same thing. It's just a question of whether you're talkin' about a woman or God.

I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am at that place within me, we shall be one.

One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.

Sometimes it is only a True Friend who knows what we mean when we try to speak. Somebody who has spent a lot of time with us, and listens carefully to what we are trying to say, and tries to understand.

Feeling that one has some leverage upon something, even by proxy or association, makes one a great deal more interested in it.

To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.

If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.

Consciesness is just like a light particle. It may discover only the surface it can reach. While on our own, we like to believe that what we see is real. But when we come together, what we see is truth. Here is why we should learn to connect, understand and discover the world we share, with one another.

I don't like being alone.

For me, the sea was a great comfort, Pilar. But it made my children restless. It exists now so we can call and wave from opposite shores.

We speak in Spanish when we make love. English seems an impossible language for intimacy.

Sometimes I think I would rather just remember it in my head, all those streets and the places I loved. The way it smelled of car exhaust and sweet fruit. The thickness of the heat. The sound of dogs barking in alleyways. That's the Panama I want to hold on to. Because a place can do many things against you, and if it's your home or if it was your home at one time, you still love it. That's how it works.

Physical nearness does not necessarily breed intimacy.

She had been waiting for him, every day pouring cupfuls of water into the pots that held his plants, turning them in the sunlight, taking care of them because she thought it was a way of taking care of him.

Maybe it was denial, but maybe it was her only way of holding on to someone she had loved. Maybe we should all be so passionate.

We knew from the outset and in a terribly selfish way that our interest lay only in each other.

los que la desgracia les ha unido aún más,

Hay gente a quien su desnudez la viste -digo- , y hay gente que, al vestirse, se queda sola.

Porque no sé casi nada de ti y quiero saber, y me da miedo saber, y no quisiera preguntarte, pero te pregunto y tú no quieres hablar, preferirías un amor anónimo, que empezara hoy, o ayer, sin carnés de identidad, sin relato.

We know nothing about those we love, except our need of their presence

Me miró supe que me hacía falta. Tanto tiempo me hacía falta.

Las afinidades son moneda antigua: falsas señas de identidad del deseo: nunca en ningún lugar un deseo fue igual a otro.

You walk in my dreams, Leafpool

Now those are lethal weapons." He stroked her lower lip with the pad of his thumb. "My heart stops every time you kiss me.