Quotes About Connection

I want the two million—or the five million, depending on whose scenario piques your fancy—to have themselves tested and know, so I will have people to talk to. Because after midnight and during weekends I cannot talk to those who play at business as usual.

Wouldn't you like right now to last forever?' Roger said as we lolled on the picnic slope. The afterglow of it lasted for days, for we bragged about it as if we'd just ascended K-2.

I suppose we'd been waiting for each other all our lives.

The better you get at being just a shoulder, the more unsexed you become.

What Richard wants is what I want, what everyone in the world wants. To be accepted, to be loved for who we are, not for some playacting phony version of ourselves.

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

Since when has love ever looked for reasons, or evidence? Why would love bow to the reality of things, when it creates a reality of its own, so much more vivid, wherein everything resonates to the key of the heart?

Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.

skill in dealing with emotions (yours and someone else's) and in communicating effectively on an interpersonal level.

To accomplish this, we practice and develop skill in interpersonal communications.

Intimacy in a relationship develops as a result of working through problems. Handled in this manner, a problem truly becomes a win/win situation. Everybody wins.

Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted.

Stop looking for love and start showing it.

More than seventy studies on intercessory prayer have shown the same nonlocal energetic connection effects as detected in the cheek cell experiment. One example of such a study was conducted by Dr. Randolph Byrd in San Francisco. It showed that patients undergoing heart surgery who were prayed for by groups scattered around the world did significantly better in their recovery than those who were not prayed for by these groups.9

We seldom say we love someone with all of our head, send brain-shaped candy on Valentine's Day, or tell our lover that we want to give our brain to them.

As Sandra now knows, her husband, Jim, received the heart of a young woman from New York. Her family said she was prone to depression throughout her life, was shy and soft-spoken, had worked part-time in a flower shop, and had taken her own life in despair over a lost love.

The black color of the pupil results from an energy convergence and the total absorption of all of the energy waves of the color spectrum. When you look into another person's eyes at their black pupil, you are looking at what has become of you in their eyes.

I feel a connection to the work of the Pictures artists. We have a shared interest in common, everyday images and how they shape reality. But I understand this shared interest as something more than media critique. There's an uncanny emptiness lurking beneath the surface of every glossy image. For me, the legacy of the Pictures Generation is a desire to disrupt the surface illusion of reality and to access another dimension.

Everybody is damaged goods. Everybody got bumps and dents, ja? But sometimes two people fit together, and the bumps go into the dents, and you have a whole thing like a potato.

In fact, I had the idea because of Peter Falk. I saw my dad watching a Peter Falk movie and something clicked in my head. I gotta go make a movie for Peter Falk and me.

Seeing the smile in your eyes, I have forgotten that people die

That's what sex is: inserting your heart into someone else's heart.

What did we ever do before text messaging?' Vi asked... Write notes to each other. On paper' Seems positively archaic now.' Pretty soon we'll just be wired into each other and orject our thoughts back and forth,' Skye said...