Quotes About Connection

What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were?

You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex—that's quite a thought, isn't it?

You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.

For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.

Stay with Jesus, and He'll stay with you.

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Women remember. Our bodies remember. Every part of us remembers that has ever happened. Every touch, every feel, everything is there in our skin, ready to be awakened, revived.

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Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts.

So maybe my own life is not so drastic and dreadful...maybe I am just like all those other girls who have come before me with their oily T-zones and random terrible days and bittersweet triumphs, the world billowing out behind them.

I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.

Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.

Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.

Life is the true revealer: I can never understand the whole by reason, only when the heart-beat of the whole throbs through me as the pulse of my own being.

Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood.

Am I beautiful? It is for you alone. Say that you love me, for without you I cannot live.

Speak for me, Nikeratos. Someone's soul is always listening." Someone's always is, I suppose, if one only knew. Plato never forgot it.

If you know about yourself, presumably you know about at least one other person.

I don't know what more there is to say, except this: that since one can't refuse to know oneself, and it must have happened eventually, I would rather it was through you than anyone else.

I know what you feel like anyone else. It's people that matter. If not, what are you worrying about. What's Madge got that you can't have for a bob against the railings? You care about someone and they let you down. Where's the difference?

Uno no teme una conversación simplemente por el miedo a que se vuelva intensa. Pero la intensidad puede constituir un poderoso disolvente de superficies protectoras finas y frágiles.

the tenet of the philosopher that for each man there was only one perfect friend;

when you feel less superior it seems you feel more lonely.

True friends share everything, except the past before they met.