Quotes About Engagement

If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.

I've noticed that the magic getting along with someone isn't really magic. If you break it down, you can see how it happens. You say something a bit off-center and see if they react. If they get it, they push it a bit further. Then it's your turn again. And theirs. And so on, until it's banter. Once it's banter, it's friendship.

She accepted the permission bestowed by passion to live entirely in the present.

I've noticed that the magic of getting along with someone isn't really magic. If you break it down, you can see how it happens. You say something a bit off-center and see if they react. If they get it, they push it a bit further. Then it's your turn again. And theirs. And so on, until it's banter. Once it's banter, it's friendship.

I came across Piper deep in conversation with Jet one afternoon and when I asked her what they were talking about she shrugged and said Dog Things.

and sometimes I looked back at him doing the same expression myself just to see what he'd say.

Dennis was present, still present, and this, she thought as she stayed landed against him, was no small talent.

But sometimes the way to get involved is to just live your life and be yourself with all your values intact.

If you want more to do," said Kim, "then do more. That's the rule of thumb in any workplace.

And then he perceived her politeness or kindness or even her vague responsiveness as interest,

She read with "abandon," it would probably be called, though when you read a book you didn't abandon anything; instead, you marshaled it all.

How are any of us in this room supposed to care about anything, when we're constantly being pulled back by unbearable thoughts and feelings?

Nor is it simply the small socialist gatherings Joe attends, though he hates to be a joiner, can't stand to be part of a group, even for a cause he believes in like this one, sitting earnest and cross-legged on someone's mildewed carpet and just listening, just taking information in, not offering anything of his own.

It was like some kind of full-mind, full-body fuck. That was what it was like when your entire self was engaged. That was what it was like to pay attention.

It did something else that art is supposed to do. Absorb you.

But sometimes the way to get involved is to just live your life and be yourself with all your values intact. And by just being you, it'll happen. Maybe not in big ways, but it'll happen.

To be lost in a novel meant you were not lost in your own life.

There are no boring stories. Only a failure to truly listen.

I turned only halfway, gave him half my attention. Half of myself. "Are you ever going to be happy again?

The minute our correspondence becomes obligatory, there's no point in keeping touch at all.

At some point in my early forties I realized that my primary goal in just about any verbal exchange is to lighten the mood.

A life which did not touch the life of others is a wasted life!

Do not exaggerate to stay lonely! Do not exaggerate to stay in the crowds! Come and go, from one to another! Spend not long time in either of them!

Take your hands out of your pocket, because life may push you hardly at any time!