Quotes About Connection

I almost can't believe I'm going to make myself vulnerable to him again. But what is love but the most

Synchronicity? Or bullshit?

As we kissed, it was as if I were returning to somewhere safe. We kissed, and it was like coming home after a long, grueling odyssey. Marcus and I kissed, and kissed, and kissed, and I never wanted to leave this familiar place again.

Because I know you.

Scream silently in your prayer; remember the pain of others.

The essence of a mature human being in religious terms is the ability to see, to be aware of others' suffering and to be touched by it.

Sometimes we miss people, and it's beyond words.

I look up at his eyes brightening through the tears. I haven't seen them shine like that in over a year.

And the two of us eat in silence. But it's not the empty kind of quiet.

Chloe Carlson: But don't think I'm all alone without Lennon. Oh, no. I'll be perfectly fine. I still have my friends, Ben and Jerry. Riley Carlson: They're my friends too!

The whole of your being is sacred to me.

The king lifted a hand to her cheek and kissed her. It was not a kiss between strangers, not even a kiss between a bride and groom. It was a kiss between a man and his wife, and when it was over, the king closed his eyes and rested his forehead in the hollow of the queen's shoulder, like a man seeking respite, like a man reaching home at the end of the day.

Who am I, that you should love me?" "You are My Queen," said Eugenides. She sat perfectly still, looking at him without moving as his words dropped like water into dry earth. "Do you believe me?" he asked. "Yes," she answered. "Do you love me?" "Yes." "I love you." And she believed him.

Nothing ever begins when you think it does. You think you can trace something back to its roots but roots by definition never end. There's always something that came before: soil and water and seeds that were born of trees that were born of yet more seeds.

You can't fight tribalism with a tribe. All you can do is read and think and listen. And if you're lucky, eventually will come that rousing, fleeting moment when you hear someone say the thing that makes you feel less alone.

At some point in my early forties I realized that my primary goal in just about any verbal exchange is to lighten the mood.

The book that I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of life

Love can attain what the intellect cannot fathom.

You are because God is, God is because you are. But that experience one in a million can have.

All talk about the path and the goal is as a lantern carried by a blind man. The blind man needs a staff in his hand, the seeker needs his hand in the God-Man's

A beautiful road is a beautiful friend; you never get bored with it!

A gate to nature is a gate to heaven!

A life which did not touch the life of others is a wasted life!

Amicus scientia est amicus Deus: Friend of science is the friend of God!