Quotes About Connection

the humanity of whales.

As the belletrist extraordinaire Christopher Hitchens once told me, mastering the pen and the podium means never having to dine or sleep alone.

There are many sources of spirituality; religion may be the most common, but it is by no means the only. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades.

And there are certain people—I could think of several myself—who seem to depress one and undermine one's energies, quite unconsciously of course, but one feels somehow that vitality has passed from oneself to them.

If it takes night to make day, pain to know pleasure, black to make white, then doesn't it stand to reason that the depth of our friendships could be measured by the quality of our enemies?

The life spark in my eyes is in no way different than the life spark in the eyes of any other sentient being.

Perfection is death,' Anastasia said. 'The world is imperfect, but if it weren't, who would love it?

It's not always possible to sit down and eat at home in this day and age of fast-paced living, but if you are going to eat out, do so as a family and support all the great local places in your areas. I'll still eat at the same diner I did as a kid with my parents.

I always say that "half of who you are is other people," meaning that the beliefs, attitudes, and biases of the people around you gradually become your own.

It was almost as if LSD provided the human consciousness with access to a kind of infinite subway system, a labyrinth of tunnels and byways that existed in the subterranean reaches of the unconscious, and one that literally connected everything in the universe with everything else.

There's nothing more complicated – or fragile – than the relationship between parents and their children. It's like no other relationship there is. And no one tells you how to make it work. Either you find your way or you don't.

One of the great lies we tell ourselves is that just because we're related to people, we have to like them.

Straight people get married so that they can have sex. Gay men have sex so that they can get friends.

Sometimes seeing the changes in one another had the opposite effect and actually comforted them. Seeing that they weren't alone in growing older, they stopped caring, or at least caring so much. But often this seemed to be accompanied by a kind of neutering, a gradual disappearance of anything remotely resembling sexuality, until finally the men in question were more like kindly old aunties than men who liked to fuck other men.

It's sort of perfect, when you think about it. Isn't falling in love a lot like losing your head?

I mean, sure this guy is a little nuts. You have to spend your whole life following bears around. But I get it, too. When he was with the bears, they didn't care that he was kind of weird, or that he'd gotten trouble for drinking too much and using drugs. They didn't ask him a bunch of stupid questions about how he felt, or why he did what he did. They just let them be who he was.

Jack was there. He was on his back, the leg with its cast stuck out at an angle. Sitting astride him, Brian was moving up and down, his hand wrapped around his own cock while Jack's filled him from underneath

How do you really know if anyone loves you?

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

We can make ourselves more resilient by making the world around us supportive.

It may be that it is not given to us to know when we are angels. We may only be given to know when others are. This may be one of the reasons we need each other so.

Powerful Leaders pursue a destiny rooted in relationships (Is that you?) not performance (Is that it?); what's in your destiny?

We are like plants which – whether we like to admit it to ourselves or not, must with our roots rise out of the earth in order to bloom in the ether and to bear fruit.

This day, Lord, I thank You that I am in You and You are in me. Thank You that no matter how I feel, I abide in You. Thank You, Lord, that it is not a position I must struggle to maintain, for You have put me there. This moment is all I will be concerned for. I accept my position of abiding with joy."