Quotes About Connection

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind- the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other that has always been my firm faith about friendship.

You're not listening to any of this, are you?" As far as she was concerned, it was really a rhetorical question. Rather than answer yes or no, Esteban had a question of his own. "Would it matter?" he asked her. "You seem to like to talk, and I've got a pulse." He looked at her over the hood of the car before getting in. "I figure that's about all you require.

Energetically speaking, when you are lost in your thoughts, you are a closed system that's emitting "I'm not available" vibes. You reduce the probability of meeting someone because spiritually, you're not open for business.

Awareness is the key that allows you to stop automatically doing things that drive men away and begin naturally doing things that support happy and satisfying relationships. Master this stuff and you'll notice that men, women, children, small animals, large animals, dust bunnies, and anything else that's not glued down will find it virtually impossible to resist you.

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Yes, Liebling." He kissed the top of her head. "I am yours. Time to make sure you know you're mine.

I am living. I remember you.

Poetry is telling something to someone.

Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story...told for the body to forget what it once loved.

But there are moments, walking, when I catch a glimpse of myself in the window glass, say, the window of the corner video store, and I'm gripped by a cherishing so deep for my own blowing hair, chapped face, and unbuttoned coat that I'm speechless: I am living. I remember you.

Someone hanging clothes on a line between buildings, someone shaking out a rug from an open window might have heard hammering, one or two blocks away and thought little or nothing of it.

and he: (and this was almost unbearable) he saw me see him, and I saw him see me. He said something like, You're going to be ok now, or, It's been difficult hasn't it, but what he said mattered only a little. We met — in our mutual gaze — in between a third place I'd not yet been.

Forever and ever, kid, until you're sick and tired of seeing me.

I've been searching a long time for something I think I lost. I felt like I found something when I saw you back there.

Ich habe auf Dich gewartet, sagte die Frau. Ich habe Dich nicht gekannt, aber man kann auch auf Jemanden warten, den man noch nie gesehen hat.

I grasp his salt and pepper hair to steady myself as his tongue lingers and plays, making my legs feel weak with desire. - from The Gorgeous Girls by Marie Wilson

When there is no bread and even when there is we should eat our fill of one another.

A family is a cracked mirror that nevertheless reflects us accurately.

Babies have the power to make grumpy people happy because they love you no matter what. Dogs are that way, too.

A smile takes but a moment, but the memory of it lasts forever.

What people really seek, even if they project it sometimes onto outer objects, is the feeling of being alive.

There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.

A degree from UC Berkeley will never change the fact that I cannot understand my grandfather when he asks for more coffee." —Esther G. Belin (Navajo) from In the Cycle of the Whirl. L

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