Quotes About Connection

No feeling was better than that of being surrounded by her own. Her children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

No one should travel alone in this world.

JOÃO CHOSE AAOR. HE accepted help from it and talked to it and caressed its small breasts once he realized that neither it nor anyone else minded this. The breasts did not represent true mammary glands. Aaor would probably lose them when it metamorphosed. Most constructs did, even when they became female. But João liked them. Aaor simply enjoyed the contact.

They're good words. Not good enough to welcome a child into the world and into the community. No words are good enough to do that, and yet, somehow, words are needed. Ceremony is needed.

Create no images of God. Accept the images that God has provided. They are everywhere, in everything. God is Change— Seed to tree, tree to forest; Rain to river, river to sea; Grubs to bees, bees to swarm. From one, many; from many, one; Forever uniting, growing, dissolving— forever Changing. The universe is God's self-portrait.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the Other.

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

the world changes if two, dizzy and entwined, fall on the grass

Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.

Love is an attempt to penetrate another being, but it can only be realized if the surrender is mutual.

because two bodies, naked and entwined, leap over time, they are invulnerable, nothing can touch them, they return to the source, there is no you, no I, no tomorrow, no yesterday, no names, the truth of two in a single body, a single soul, oh total being...

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks out another. His nature - if that word can be used in reference to man, who has 'invented' himself by saying 'no' to nature - consists in his longing to realize himself in another. Man is nostalgia and a search for communion. Therefore, when he is aware of himself he is aware of his lack of another, that is, of his solitude.

Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.

My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do so with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Treasure the friendship you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.

Middle age is when you are sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it is not for you.

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.

Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.

Elephants are useful friends: they have handles on both ends.