Quotes About Connection

Vivir bien quiere decir aprender a amar.

I call it sniffing someone out. If they smell real, I give them a signal to come close.

Intento explicaros que el saber es útil, sin duda, pero que el conocimiento solo no ayudará a nadie. Si no utilizáis, además de la cabeza, vuestro corazón y vuestra alma, no ayudaréis a nadie.

La conclusión básica que saqué de todo esto, y que no ha cambiado, es que todos los seres humanos, al margen de nuestra nacionalidad, riqueza o pobreza, tenemos necesidades, deseos y preocupaciones similares. En realidad, nunca he conocido a nadie cuya mayor necesidad no sea el amor.

Somos culpables de haber destruido muchos dones de la naturaleza y de haber perdido toda espiritualidad.

Si uno se toma el tiempo de sentarse junto a la cabecera de la cama de los moribundos, ellos son los que nos informan sobre las etapas del morir.

Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone, is kin in the radiant tapestry of being.

My mother-in-law's last night on earth, a fox crossed our path in Branford, Connecticut, as we left the hospice. We knew somehow that it was her, as I now know the ravenous hawk came to take Ficre. Do I believe that? Yes, I do. Poetic logic is my logic. I do not believe she was a fox. But I believe the fox was a harbinger. I believe that it was a strange enough occurrence that it should be heeded. Zememesh Berhe, the quick, red fox, soon passed from this life to the next.

In all marriages there is struggle and ours was no different in that regard. But we always came to the other shore, dusted off and said, 'There you are, my love.

People make one happy, not houses.

when you consider they didn't grow up together.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach

Earth's crammed with heaven... But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you in the idea of you my whole life long.

Love me sweet With all thou art Feeling, thinking, seeing; Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.

What I do, and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.

I turned on my e-mail

Shrinks will tell you there are only five problems: sex, money, intimacy, trust, children. No, six: add parents, as in in-laws, Alzheimer's, inheritance. And of course they are all related

What is it that makes a family? Certainly no document does, no legal pronouncement or accident of birth. No, real families come from choices we make about who we want to be bound to, and the ties to such families live in our hearts.

But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so deep and true, one knows better than to try. One sees that this is not the place for that.

Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you