Quotes About Connection

I wondered if we could ever truly understand each other, and if not, did it matter? Maybe that was where we had been going wrong all this time, always trying to understand, to make sense, to control, to fit Iran into our own frame of reference, instead of simply accepting?

L'humanité souffre. Et je souffre avec elle.

Tant bien que mal, avant j'aimais la vie, parce qu'on l'avait en commun. Avant, j'aimais la vie, même sachant tout ce que je savais, car dans l'immensité du vide, il était là qui souriait. Aujourd'hui, je chéris un fantôme, un souvenir. Je pense encore à lui chaque jour, chaque minute, chaque seconde…

Okay. Sorry," she mumbles. I move to the edge of the bed and peer into her face, looking for a sign of anything I can reason with. Her pale blue eyes are smoky, vacant.

The whole secret may be summarized in these four words: "Inflame thyself in praying." —ALEISTER CROWLEY38

In what other land save this one is the commonest form of greeting not "Good day," nor "How d'ye do," but "Love"? That greeting is Aloha--love, I love you, my love to you. Good day--what is it more than an impersonal remark about the weather? How do you do--it is personal in a merely casual interrogative sort of a way. But Aloha! It is a positive affirmation of the warmth of one's own heart-giving. My love to you! I love you! Aloha!

I'm already there Take a look around I'm the sunshine in your hair I'm the shadow on the ground I'm the whisper in the wind I'm your imaginary friend And I know I'm in your prayers

When we live in cities at a fast pace, it is almost impossible not to get disconnected from the natural world. Food is one of the few things in our daily life that can help us strengthen that bond. Maybe we need to remind ourselves that coconut comes from a tree, not from little blue bags in the supermarket.

Music is the universal language of mankind -- poetry their universal pastime and delight.

Not chance of birth or place has made us friends, Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations, But the endeavor for the selfsame ends, With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.

More and more do I feel, as I advance in life, how little we really know of each other. Friendship seems to me like the touch of musical-glasses--it is only contact; but the glasses themselves, and their contents, remain quite distinct and unmingled.

Denn gegen die Liebe ist kein Kraut gewachsen, gegen sie hilft kein Trank, keine Speise, nichts, was in Zaubersprüchen gemurmelt wird, sondern nur Kuss und Umarmung und nackt beieinanderzuliegen. - Philetas

There was never any yet that wholly could escape love, and never shall there be any, never so long as beauty shall be, never so long as eyes can see.

Daphnis is beautiful, yes, but so are the flowers. His pipe sends forth beautiful sounds, yes, but so do the nightingales. But no words come to me about those things. I wish that I could be his pipe so he could breathe into me all day. — - Longus, Daphnis and Chloe

If you want to live With all I have to give I need to feel true love Or it's got to end, yeah

I don't look at people and see color and race. I see inside.

I am yours," he whispered. "I live to hold you, Risa. I breathe to touch you.

You are a light that will always guide me, a whisper I'll always strain to hear.

Since I know you don't like me, don't bother answering, because it would trouble you; but I remember you always and I keep a place for you in my heart, brimful of poetry.

Men like to pleasure us, girl. They like to undo our plaits and give us water to drink from their own mouths. That's what makes the world go round.

The still pool of your mouth under a thicket of kisses.

I am ashamed to tell you how much I should like to hear from you, because you will suspect that I only want a supplement to the Times, or a later edition of the Echo.

Love without passion is dreary; passion without love is horrific.

I love not man the less, but nature more