Quotes About Connection

David was catnip and kryptonite to me.

The appreciation of pleasure can be the anchor of humanity.

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.

you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead.

The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.

This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark.

People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything you're holding back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.

When I was younger, I had wanted to be at the very center of all the action in New York, but I slowly came to realize that there is no one center. The center is everywhere - wherever people are living out their lives. It's a city with a million centers.

This is what I've found about life, as I've gotten older: you start to lose people, Angela. It's not that there is ever a shortage of people - oh, heavens no. It is merely that - as the years pass - there comes to be a shortage of your people. The ones you loved. The ones who knew the people that you both loved. The ones who know your whole history. Those people start to be plucked away by death, and they are awfully hard to replace after they go.

I like it when science and devotion find places of intersection.

To feel physically comfortable with someone else's body is not a decision you make. It has very little thing to do with how two people think or act or talk or even look. The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.

Whatever this feeling is - this is what I have been praying for. And this is also what I have been praying to.

I couldn't care less about evidence and proof and assurances. I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water.

In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.

It all comes down to one simple question: Do you want your belly pressed against this person's belly forever--or not?

The Hopi Indians thought that the world's religions each contained one spiritual thread, and that these threads are always seeking each other, wanting to join. When all the threads are finally woven together they will form a rope that will pull us out of this dark cycle of history and into the next realm.

You can recognize the people who live for others by the haunted look on the faces of the others.")

Your tears are my prayers.

You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have four legs, instead of two...But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look thorough your heart, instead

Everything falls apart. The only thing in life that is permanent is family.

But we are not what the other one needs, still he is certain that I will find great love in my life someday. He is sure of it. After all, he says, beauty attracts beauty.

This is the singular fantasy of human intimacy: that one plus one will somehow, someday, equal one.

Your father only has one foot on this earth. And really, really long legs . . .

when you set out in the world to help yourself,sometimes you end up helping Tutti.