Quotes About Connection

Better this immersion than to live untouched.

I'm no good at this kind of stuff, but you are suddenly the most important thing in my life

A national language is a national tie', Noah Webster

the fragrant pinewoods on one side of the road; a blueberry patch on the other. It was as though the positions of each plant and each cloud in the sky pierced her consciousness

Is it the pauses, not the parties, that create the friendship?

It strikes me that moments like these abound. At every turn, there is always n opportunity to say yes or no. To smile or stare straight ahead. To connect or pass by barely rubbing shoulders. One day we may wake up and wonder why we said no way Jose, why we stared straight ahead, why we passed up the chance for love, or ever 'like.' Why indeed? Because it seems like the right idea at the time.

Truth attracts truth as time attracts time

Sometimes when He seems the farthest away from us, He's really the closest.

But the truth is, I can't sip from an hour-long church service on Sunday morning or dash off a hasty prayer or gulp down a daily Bible verse and expect them to sustain me any more than I can expect a glass of water to last for a week.

We were meant to love people, and we need to accept their love in return. Otherwise, we ain't really living.

Torah says that if you seek Yahweh your God you will find Him if you look for Him with all your heart and soul.

You see, here's the word for man—and the word for woman. All the letters are the same except for these two. And if you put those two letters together, they form the name of God. If you share a love for each other and for God, His presence will dwell in your midst.

Ah, but that would require a spending time with God--more than an hour or two on Sunday, I suspect--getting to know Him, communing with Him, praising Him.

You have beautiful hair"... and she reached out to touch it, her bejeweled fingers gently caressing my head. A tear slipped down my cheek. I knew how the lepers felt when Jesus touched them and made them whole again.

God] wants us to work with Him, honey. Not for Him.

You know what I wish? I wish I could put time in a bottle and throw it into the ocean. Then I would have forever to spend with you. I wouldn't need air to breathe or food to eat. Holding you in my arms would be all the food I would need. Having your love would be the only air I would need to breathe.

I am a deep believer in the unknowability of other people

To say that he 'nailed a subject's soul to the canvas' makes the assumption that we persons, as well as artists, can see one another's souls. Maybe we do. Maybe we all have the ability to perceive another's soul, and do so every day, only we take it for granted, and don't even know it when we're doing it. We call it knowing someone's 'character' or 'personality.

It is my belief that marriage is made holy by two souls in communion, not by the order of the law.

The Plenimarans lay scattered in a wide circle. At its center, Seregil and Alec lay side by side, hands clasped between them even in death.

It was Alec who brought their lips together. Seregil's first reaction was disbelief. But Alec was insistent, clumsy but determined. It lasted an instant, an eternity, that one awkward kiss, and it spoke silent volumes of bewildered honesty. The moment that followed was too fragile for words.

You hardly know me. Why do you want me to come with you?" "Who knows? Perhaps you remind me just a bit of—" "Someone you used to know?" Alec interjected skeptically. "Someone I used to be .

Talí." It was the only thing Seregil could think of that encompassed everything he felt right now. Alec smiled. "You called me that by accident the first time, remember?" "Unthinking, perhaps, but no accident." Alec's cheeks went crimson as he declared softly, "You're my talí, too.

Say me aye," he whispered against her mouth. "Say me aye." How could she say anything else?