Quotes About Connection

I would like to be the airthat inhabits you for a momentonly. I would like to be that unnoticed& that necessary.

I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.

Beauty puts a face on God. When we gaze at nature, at a loved one, at a work of art, our soul immediately recognizes it and is drawn to the face of God.

But it is pleasant to be remembered in England.

One does not analyse a person one loves. One just loves them as they are.

Well, love don't count one rass unless it's a verb.

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.

Appreciation can make a day - even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary. -- Margaret Cousins

Appreciation can make a day, even change a life.

Here every bird and fish knew its course. Every tree had its own place upon this earth. Only man had lost his way.

He watched their faces, and he knew each meant desperately what she said because they loved each other, and deep inside surely each knew the words were false, that the true words were those unspoken.

To join the others was to care, and to care was to live and to suffer.

She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.

Love sometimes comes fast, sometimes slow. Snatch it when it does, either way.

she too lives in and for words, for the words of others. Other men's flowers. 'These are other men's flowers, only the string that binds them is my own.

for an incestuous friendship will outlive, as I have discovered, any passionate love.

She is pleased to see that this healthy and happy young person shares some of her metaphysical defiance. It is an exoneration.

After a year or two of keeping my head down and trying to pass myself off as a normal person, I made contact with the five other people at my university who were interested in writing; and through them, and some of my teachers, I discovered that there was a whole subterranean Wonderland of Canadian writing that was going on just out of general earshot and sight.

I am yours. If you feed me garbage, I will sing a song of garbage. This is a hymn.

But all through the evening every time I looked at him I'd find his blue eyes fixed on me, with that naked look one can't help recognizing, and can't help remembering either that one has a certain power and occasionally men are vulnerable to it, and sometimes one ends up hurting them. But when it's happening it all seems worth it, and in the end too: however it ends I think, as far as I can tell so far, it still stays worth it.

Wherever the living are,' whispered my foster mother, 'the dead will be there too.