Quotes About Connection

Surely love, if there was any such thing, should be ease and tenderness...

Thoreau, "At death, our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us, and are found out, or depart farther from us, and are forgotten.

fell into their open arms.

Few people associate words like serenity and tranquility with motorcycling, but some of us discover those mind-states by motoring along on our own two wheels, out in the weather and part of the scenery, on quiet roads of our choosing.

enchantment is the means through which we may gain access to sacredness. Entertainment is the means through which we distance ourselves from it.

Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone.

The distance between rationality and advertising is now so wide that it is difficult to remember that there once existed a connection between them.

In courtrooms, classrooms, operating rooms, board rooms, churches and even airplanes, Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other.

What did we do before we were so tethered? I

Did he have extra-sharp hearing or just a sixth sense about the approach of his best friend?

click of doggie

God is everywhere, you know.

Vann had a practiced eye for loneliness. He walked over to her and said that she was pretty and complimented her on her clothes.

He had not felt any genuine grief until the moment he accepted the flag, because he had hardly known his father and knew even less about what his father had done.

If there was anything I'd learned, it's that the man never chooses the woman. All he can do is give her an opportunity to choose him.

There is a downside to casual sex: Sometimes it stops being casual. People develop a desire for something more. And when one person's expectations don't match the other person's, then whoever holds the highest expectations suffers. There is no such thing as cheap sex. It always comes with a price.

Intimacy is sharing your reality with someone else and knowing you're safe, and them being able to share their reality with you and also be safe.

used to think that intelligence came from books and knowledge and rational thought. But that's not intelligence: It's just information and interpretation. Real intelligence is when your mind and your heart connect. That's when you see the truth so clearly and unmistakably that you don't have to think about it. In fact, all thinking will do is lead you away from the truth and soon you'll be back in your head, groping with a penlight in the dark again.

We can know all about God, but not know Him at all. We

Live music is better.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.

when we were strangers, I liked you from afar when we were lovers, I loved you with all my heart

Pearl Jam is a band I have a lot of respect for. Nirvana and Sonic Youth I feel the same way about. Mumford & Sons, My Morning Jacket, Wilco, Givers, and Foo Fighters are just some of my favorites. I respect bands that give me something of themselves that I can feel. ("Posing" bands turn me off generally speaking.) It all has to do with a feeling I have about them. That is what music is to me, a feeling. It's similar with people too.