Quotes About Connection

No one ever wants to hear about how stressed out anyone else is, because most of the time everyone is stressed out. Going on and on in detail about how stressed out I am isn't a conversation. It'll never lead anywhere.

We clung to each other with blind loyalty, like Lord Voldemort and his snake, Nagini.

When they arrived, we all sat around my small apartment, ate delicious Indian food, and talked and talked for hours. I was surprised by how calming it was to be around people who looked like me and who reminded me of where I was from.

We text, and one time she asked if I would ever need her again. I told her I don't know if I'll have another baby, but if it meant she would come and live with me, I may just go ahead and do it.

In that moment, standing alone in my bedroom, I felt so connected to my mother. It was finally clear. The reason I'm Kind of Hindu and will raise my daughter to be Kind of Hindu is to have this connection deep inside my own heart to other people who look like us and have shared key experiences, thousands of miles away.

And when she's at the door, Mark stops her and he says, "I like you, very much. Just as you are." It's ridiculous that I love this so much. It's so simple. It's not a witty, perfectly phrased, Ephron-y declaration by our charming, neurotic hero. It's so … plain. But the idea is the most beautiful thing in the world. So, obviously, it makes me cry.

Going on and on in detail about how stressed out I am isn't conversation. It'll never lead anywhere.

Interspecies Friendships. A smart, small observational show about two animals who are friends against all odds.

In my mind, the sexiest thing in the world is the feeling that you're wanted. The slightly nervous asking of your phone number. The text message asking you to dinner. The simple overture of wanting me can satisfy my ego for a good long time.

My barometer for making friends is that you can't get to know someone by hearing about everything they like—you need to hear about what they don't like. It's only when you are willing to go out on a limb by admitting you're not a fan of something that you're vulnerable enough to earn my trust.

I got to see my friend B. J. Novak daily, which, when we weren't fighting, was the absolute best.

We forewent seeing any DC museums or national monuments to order cheeseburgers and watch Will & Grace in bed at our hotel, because we are real best friends, not lame fake friends trying to impress each other with how fascinated we are with culture and learning.

Drag the kids to the art museum in the morning,

contact between people is more important than convenience.

I took the obi from my father's chest and took it with me. I kept it until I met my husband. I gave it to him. He still wears it.

coincidences are seductive

In nature there is no alienation. Everything belongs.

Let us not hold ourselves above our fellow human beings, no matter how great the disparity. To withhold your scorn is already beautiful. To see how we are all of one family is compassion.

Let us not hold ourselves above our fellow human beings. To see how we are all of one family is compassion.

Niekados nesišaipyk iš žmogaus, kur? myli ir kuris dar labiau myli tave, ir niekados jam nepriekaištauk! Tikr? meil? patiri tik kart? per vis? inkarnacij?.

Reposes, i jo reposo en tu, i et penso tendrament, i et veig, i et tinc.

HOME NOU Neix una nova edat de tu i de mi que a cada instant ens fa el viure més clar; amb tu reprenc el goig de caminar, i en tu i per tu confio en el destí. No em sé ni em vull si tu no em fas costat; la ment em fuig cap on et trobes tu. Prem-ne com sóc: desvalgut, pobre i nu, i fes-me l'home nou que he somiat.

ESCRIC DE TU Escric de tu i de mi per recordar-te. La tarda em pesa suaument als muscles i dibuixa l'espai en què et retrobo sense tenir-te. Tota l'esperança se'm fa desig intens a la mirada i l'ombra de tu pels marges solitaris. Escric de tu i de mi, des d'aquest angle de tarda que ens pertany perquè vam fer-ne l'àmbit fecund i clar dels nostres somnis.

Heu esbrinat que en un instant només pot estimar-se tant com en tota una vida.