Quotes About Connection

Each … breeze," he says, watching the ripple of the bright, unfurling leaves, "will be me, missing. You." Smiling

In some ways we were more remote than strangers because strangers at least have the possibility of yet unmade connections.

I think he's telling the truth," she said. "Like prison inmates have grapevines that keep them informed about what's happening on the outside, these kids have the same sort of system. It's rather remarkable when you think about it.

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

When we live in memory we cut ourselves off from the universe, we live in isolation. This is the root of all suffering.

You want me to talk about love, to give you a hold, something to feel, to admire or obtain. I will not give you a straw to grasp, and in this emptiness you will be taken by yourself. You are love so don't try to be a lover.

Welcoming, openness, is the nature of life.

First you recognize stillness, then you are it. You feel yourself as autonomous, that is, not identified with what is all around you. And now true relation is possible.

While he has not, in my hearing, spoken the English language, he makes it perfectly plain that he understands it. And he uses his ears, tail, eyebrows, various rumbles and grunts, the slant of his great cold nose or a succession of heartrending sighs to get his meaning across.

If you want to fall in love, you can't hold everything in. You have to open up, take that risk. You'll be hurt sometimes, but if you don't, you'll never be happy. The one you find may not be the kind of woman you expected to fall in love with, but it wont matter, you'll love her for exactly what she is.

They stared at each other, wanting each other, drawn to each other, but their silent shout of love went unheard in the roar of misunderstanding, and the clatter of culturally ingrained beliefs.

When you are alone, you have all the time in the world to practice whistling like a bird. When there is no one in the world you can turn to, a horse or .even a lion may give you companionship. When you don't know if there is anyone in the world like you, you seek contact with something living however you can

I don't know, Jondalar. Maybe you haven't found the right woman. Maybe the Mother has someone special for you. She doesn't make many like you. You are really more than most women could bear. If all your love were concentrated on one, it could overwhelm her, if she wasn't one to whom the Mother gave equal gifts.

The little girl's gentle touch struck an inner chord in his lonely old heart.

As Creb looked at the peaceful, trusting face of the strange girl in his lap, he felt a deep love flowering in his soul for her. He couldn't have loved her more if she were his own.

All in all, in-person social interaction is much better for mental health than electronic communication.

[H]e sang words without sense, but their tone went to his heart...

And yet there leaped from his heart a high fountain of love, which penetrated even to the remotest brother.... his heart adhered everywhere like hooked seed, and sent the roots of its happiness into every other being's lot.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.

Present, I flee you: absent, I find you again.

happiness heldis the seed happiness shared is the flower, happiness seems to be shared