Quotes About Connection

thanking them for coming, and reminding Con to give the dog a bit of something when he gets home late, she forgets altogether to hand him the letter. Holding it after he has left she thinks of the many crucial things left unsaid.

Quite unselfconsciously she ran her hands along her neck, all along the sides and then to the back to feel the stiffnesses, and though she had not asked me I felt without the words that she wished me to massage her and I did, searching out the knots and the crick, then along the nape, under her swallow, holding the bowl of her head in my hands, entreating her to let go, to let go of all her troubles

remember love is all bull, the only true love is that between mother and child.

motherless mothers with their skinless mysteries.

her untimely death. Death for her meant death for us both.

I am far from those I am with, and far from those I have left.

Con la lengua se puede llegar a cualquier parte o a ninguna.

Qué dices? Y dijo: —Que querría tener otra vida para vivirla contigo. Otra vida para vivirla conmigo. Eso querría. Eso dijo.

To all of you who have made my being alive so wonderful, so exciting and so full, my thanks and all my love.

The cult of the individual that dominates modern minds, the ideology of the "I," prevents most of us from seeing ourselves as products of the chronicle and choices of our predecessors

Remember that, lad, if you never remember anything else. We all touch each other's lives, for better or for worse. So say the things you have to say to people while you still have the chance.

A person is not really gone until everyone who knew them is gone.

All of our time, energy, and money go into keeping people away from us, into building up walls. What if we didn't do that? What if we became part of the world around us? What if we used all of that time, energy, and money for something else? For a greater good? We would no longer be people who were only worth a trash bag full of ransom money. We would be people who were worth something real.

so intimate is the connexion between the throne and the altar, that the banner of the church has very seldom been seen on the side of the people.

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

when I talk to people I really like to talk to them, and not just exchange pleasantries and wonder which of us is going to try to get away first. Most social occasions leave me less than enthralled.

I wanted to tell you somethin, and I have been workin my mind so the words will tumble out in a straight line. You know how that can be, John. I do, Barnum. Just set them words one by one and they'll do fine and we'll get where we got to go.

They say that we're all made by our previous lives. Our affinities for each other were made in the deep past, and when we meet people who become important in our lives, it may seem like a chance accident—no more significant than the flapping of a butterfly's wing—but in fact a hidden force is drawing us together across the surface of the stream of life. Yuanfen, they call it.

And Dirk van Dyck the Dutchman realized that he never had been, and never would be, as proud of any child as he was of his elegant little Indian daughter at that moment.

Frank Master wasn't really her lover yet. Though he didn't quite know it, he was still on trial. She found him intelligent, kindly, somewhat ignorant of opera, but maybe improvable.

Whatever you do, keep your family together. That's the most important thing in the world.

When I am in his company, I am so happy. I just want to be with him. That's all I know." She shrugged. "I want to be with him, all the time.

uno de ellos desempeña en los hechos históricos

For it is a fact that the roots of a tree mirror the spreading crown of its branches. As the branches spread out, so do the roots in proportion. If the tree's branches die back, the roots do too. As above, so below. In this respect the system of the tree as a whole rather resembles, at top and bottom, the magnetic field of a bar magnet, or indeed of the Earth itself. And who knows what force fields, as yet unmeasured by man, may surround the physical manifestation of a tree?