Quotes About Connection

the appreciation of pleasure can be an anchor of one's humanity.

I love my pizza so much, in fact, that I have come to believe in my delirium that my pizza might actually love me, in return.

And with me and Rosella—things were never bad. We just lived separate lives. What you gotta understand about South Brooklyn, is that the neighborhood itself is a family. You can't break up that family. Really, my wife is married to the neighborhood. It was the neighborhood who took care of her while I was in the service. The neighborhood still takes care of her now—and Angela, too.

I'm not interested in the insurance industry. I'm tired of being a skeptic, I'm irritated by spiritual prudence and I feel bored and parched by empirical debate. I don't want to hear it anymore. 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.

itself. Although we never lived together or shared a bed, he was always a part of me. I saved stories for him all week, so I would have good things to tell him. I asked for his opinions, because I respected his ethics. I came to cherish his face precisely because it was his. Even his burn scars became beautiful to my eye.

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 that's holding you 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... they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they leave. And thank God for it.

History has a pulse, they say- but mostly I have never been able to hear it, not even when its drumming in my goddamn ears.

He doesn't speak. Instead, he grasps me by the collar of my coat and presses his lips to mine. Kiaran kisses me deeply, with an urgency I never thought him capable of. He kisses me like he knows he's going to die. He kisses me like the world is going to end.

We're all related, after all, so there's going to be some repetition of creative instinct. Everything reminds us of something. But once you put your own expression and passion behind an idea, that idea becomes yours.

But maybe that's where love grows best -- in the deep space that exists between polarities.

I realized as a songwriter that all I really do is make jewelry for the inside of other people's minds.

Am I centered enough now to be the center of somebody else's life?

I am touched that you are trying to comprehend me. A friend could not be more loving.

I'm tired of being a skeptic, I'm irritated by spiritual prudence and I feel bored and parched by empirical debate. I don't want to hear it anymore. 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.

But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God.

But it is my understanding that the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it. As long as even two souls are locked in conflict, the whole of the world is contaminated by it.

Everything you do, you do for God. And everything God does he do it for you.

We could not possibly have been more different. But maybe that's where love grows best—in the deep space that exists between polarities.

only thing I'd said was that a supreme intelligence exists in the universe, and that it longs for union with us.

Yeah, baby! And you are the magnet and I'm the steel! Bring to me your leather, take from me my lace!

But for me, to experience life through mere reason is to feel about in the dark for God's face while wearing heavy gloves.

Para hallar el equilibrio que buscas te tienes que convertir en esto. Debes tener los pies tan firmemente plantados en la tierra que parezca que tienes cuatro piernas en lugar de dos. De este modo podrás estar en el mundo. Pero debes dejar de mirar el mundo con la mente. Tienes que mirarlo con el corazón. Así llegarás a conocer a Dios.

Moreover, they would likely agree that there is not one special person waiting for you somewhere in this world who will make your life magically complete, but that there are any number of people (right in your community, probably) with whom you can seal a respectful bond.

believe that we are surrounded by a host of unseen friends and loved ones, now passed away, who exert an influence upon our lives, and who never abandon us.