Quotes About Connection

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself... If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

Power is anathema to intimacy, as it is to love, because when you have power, you have fear. So if you are trying to get closer to someone than you are right now, try recognizing their power rather than showing them yours.

And they say that there is no intimacy unless there is mutual acceptance and mutual trust, no matter whatever else there is, and I would side with them.

The Poem flows throughout one's heart, only when it is filled with the Love!

A long, slow kiss. With mouths open. Teeth knocking. Tongues tangling. The kind my brother Marsh used to call a Saturday Night Special.

The weirdest stuff in the world is certainly to don't love and don't know how to love, that's why others can not be a reason to don't love

It isn't any particular person I want to lie down with and make my own. It isn't anybody at all. It is the feeling of being taken care of that I want to pin down and rock my hips against. Sling a leg across it and fall asleep. This longing for body comfort and security is familiar as my own face. The need is urgent. The need makes me stupid.

It's not true but I long to be connected like that. I want someone to be able to tell I am out of sorts by the details of my distraction, like leaving the drawers of my dresser cracked open. I want someone to know me as well as

The normal guardrails of healthy emotional boundaries were never constructed inside me. I think it's normal that I feel what Emily feels. Better than normal: I believe tuning into other people's emotions is my secret superpower. I can bend steel with my bare hands. I can find a way in. I am CAPTAIN EMPATHY—able to intuit feelings like Superman leaps tall buildings.

If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.

I am the wilderness lost in man.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Ne želimo svjedoka za naše slabosti, a ako ih pred nekim krijemo, zašto bismo ga nazivali prijateljem?

My point is that when you fall in love it's with a real person with flaws. Not with a perfect character from a fairy tale.

Conversation is food for the soul.

You can't teach a blind man to see but you can teach him how to feel just what you feel

Por que não escreveste nunca? Não é de te ler que mais tenho saudade. É o som da faca rasgando o envelope que trazia a tua carta. E sentir, de novo, uma caricia na alma, como se algures estivessem golpeando um cordão umbilical

Rir junto é melhor do que falar a mesma língua. Ou talvez o riso seja uma língua anterior que fomos perdendo à medida que o mundo foi deixando de ser nosso.

O silêncio não é a ausência da fala, é o dizer-se tudo sem nenhuma palavra.

Depois de tantos anos, deixamos de viver na casa e passamos a ser a casa onde vivemos. - É como se as paredes nos vestissem a alma

Aqueles que matámos, por mais estranhos e inimigos que sejam, tornam-se nossos parentes para sempre. Nunca mais se retiram, permanecem mais presentes que os vivos.

Beijo não se dá nem se recebe. A vida é que beija, recíproca. Repito, mano: a vida é que nos beija, dois seres se resumindo num único infinito.

Amar - disse ele - é estar sempre chegando.