Quotes About Connection

When I think a given concept, I am entirely this concept, when I think tree, I am the tree, when I think river, I am the river, when I think number, I am through and through and from head to toe, number. that is the unquestionable experience of thinking.

Mon boucher : «Monsieur Tournier, quand on vous connaît comme moi en vrai, on n'a pas besoin de lire vos livres, hein?»

La tendresse maternelle et l'érotisme des amants ne sont que des aspects particuliers de l'ardent besoin de contact physique qui fait le fond de la chair et du cÅ"ur.

Yes, we have abolished the distance that artistic contemplation necessarily requires. So what is left? Love plus anatomy are left.

Perché per rispettare gli altri e trattarli in modo giusto, non dobbiamo dimenticarci che abbiamo tutti bisogno di qualcuno. Che siamo tutti dipendenti. Senza eccezione. E che la dipendenza non è necessariamente negativa.

Ma l'amore è questo: prendersi cura l'uno dell'altro, anche se in maniera sgrammaticata e maldestra, ognuno a partire dall'intensità imperfetta della propria storia fino alla perfezione neutra della complementarietà.

I know well that, at this hour, I could as easily forget your name as the food by which I live by; nay, it were easier to forget the food, which only nourishes by body miserably, than your name, which nourishes both body and soul, filling the one and the other with such sweetness that neither weariness nor fear of death is felt by me while memory preserves you to my mind. Think, if the eyes could also enjoy their portion, in what condition I should find myself.

One doesn't enter groups of people simply because one wants or needs to. One has an infinite number of opportunities that occur for no particular reason. Sometimes you feel a sudden unexpected pleasure at being where you find yourself.

Modern life is very difficult for people who are unprepared. But this new environment will eventually facilitate more realistic relationships between people.

Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.

Bound to you as the rays are to the sun.

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

What is life," he asked the maiden, "without love? I would rather have this one night with you than another thousand years.

A minute later he (Brady) collapsed next to me. "What do you say to the person who gave you the best orgasm of your life?" "Thank you, Keanu (Reeves)?

Excuse me, but where do you think you're going?" I asked. "I figured I'd put my underwear in with yours. That way they could all get to know each other." One brown eyebrow lifted. "Unless you want to make some formal introductions right now?

He'd taken her fully and completely. Pierced her with that amazing piece of manliness.

I didn't mean to interupt you if you were looking for your friends Miss--' 'Callihan,' but you can call my Jasmine. Or Jas.' Or Snookums. Honeybunch. Hotsie Totsie Cowgirl. My Little-- 'It's nice to meet you Jasmine, I'm Jack.

Which left me with the cheery knowledge that my father would wan tto spend time with me even if i were a cold, stiff corpse. not every daughter can say that, i bet!

And we'd look at each other the way you do when you see someone on the street you think you recognize, but not quite. Someone you wish with all your heart were there but who is actually just a stranger. And you feel a kind of deep longing that hurts like a huge gash and your inability to fix it leaves you frustrated and angry and bone-deep lonely.

Ford! Sadie shouted sharply. His eyes snapped open and he called "Present!" like a student waking up in class. It had worked. It had worked. Sadie laughed, and he started to laugh too and mutter, "Present!

The memory brought back the timbre of her voice and the tickle of her hair on my chin as I put her to bed that night and the feeling of belonging to someone, mattering to someone, having someone whose first smile in the morning was for you. Someone who slipped their hand into yours when they were scared and trusted you to make them feel better. Someone who knew you, the important things about you, and loved you anyway.

Are you willing to care enough to get hurt?

Love is not a matter of counting the years . . . But making the years count.

Our children need to see that faith matters, that it's relevant to our daily situations, that it's real.