Quotes About Connection

Então é isso: cada dia eu gosto de você de um jeito. E se a gente junta tudo que é jeito vê que gosta bem grande, vê que é amor.

Ana Clara contou que tinha um namorado que endoidava quando ela tirava os cílios postiços, a cena do biquíni não tinha a menor importância mas assim que começava a tirar os cílios, era a glória. Os olhos nus. Em verdade vos digo que chegará o dia em que a nudez dos olhos será mais excitante do que a do sexo.

Via agora que jamais poderia se libertar das suas antigas faces, impossível negá-las porque tinha qualquer coisa de comum que permanecia no fundo de cada uma delas, qualquer coisa que era como uma misteriosa unidade ligando umas às outras, sucessivamente, até chegar à face atual.

Descobri que ajuda muito na convivência com os outros. Às vezes a gente não sabe o que dizer e então acende um cigarro. Não sabe como começar um assunto e lá vem um cigarro, todos esses pequeninos gestos são importantes para os tímidos. E eu sou tímida.

Papai, papai!", chamou baixinho. Mas só o cipreste pareceu ter ouvido o apelo: fez um meneio sob o vento e em seguida curvou-se como um velho galhofeiro numa reverência.

Não conte a ninguém, mas descobri, a bolha de sabão é o amor

Love knoweth no laws.

Marriages are made in heaven though consummated on Earth.

It is only by human experiences that we can interpret the Divine.

I believe that God is the Great Companion, that we are not left orphans, that we may have comradeship with him.

Warm hearts are better than great thoughts.

A man is no less a person because he can speak in New York and be heard in Chicago, or press a button in Washington and set machinery in motion in Omaha. Extension of power does not lessen the personality of him who exercises it.

For to laugh is as religious as to weep; and smiles may bring us into the companionship of the Father no less than tears.

It was who they were, and it was who they always would be. They would remain forever in lust and forever in love, for theirs was a love that transcended body and mind. Theirs was a love of the soul. --Mistletoe (2012) by Lyn Gardner

I don't just want to write a story. I want to pull the reader into my ink so they feel the cold of a snowy forest or the pain of a tortured soul. I want them to laugh and cry, to smile and sigh, and when they reach the end of the book and find themselves wishing it hadn't ended...then I've done my job.

To any mental state there corresponds a physical condition.

Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a brief moment in the tender light of his sympathy.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

The groove is so mysterious. We're born with it and we lose it and the world seems to split apart before our eyes into stupid and cool. When we get it back, the world unifies around us, and both stupid and cool fall away. I am grateful to those who are keepers of the groove. The babies and the grandmas who hang on to it and help us remember when we forget that any kind of dancing is better than no dancing at all.

When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?

You keep seeing your picture on posters that you are missing but you're not. That'd be weird, right? Or say you look down at the sidewalk and earthworms are spelling your name. Or you open a peanut bag and the 'hello' is written in your writing on the inside of the shell. Would that weird ya?

i believe [images] are the soul's immune system and transit system.

As careers spread across more companies, sectors and different skills, one of the threads that connect intangible value over time will be a good reputation. This is particularly crucial at times when you decide to change jobs or sectors.

transformation does not occur in isolation, nor does it typically occur within the same group of friends.