Quotes About Reconnection

Perhaps someday we could all make it back to the places where we started. I didn't believe it, but I tried to.

If you feel far from God right now, guess who moved? You're only a decision away from reconnecting.

Because of the chasm which his grandfather's visit had opened before him, and the consequent revulsion from his late mode of life, it was inevitable that he should look around in this suddenly hostile city for the friends and environments that had once seemed the warmest and most secure. His fist step was a desperate attempt to get back his old apartment.

I think anybody who goes away finds you appreciate home more when you return.

How do you stay married 47 years? You are probably apart 20 of them. You get fired, move to another job. She would raise the kids and come six months later. Just start all over again. New romance.

I want to spend more time with my family, and get back to what made me enjoy making games in the first place.

When I moved back to Cumbria, one of the first things I did was locate a decent bookshop.

One thing I really want to do is - I spent ten years in New York doing theater before I moved to L.A. to do TV and film. I'd really like to go to back New York and do some theater.

replenish the connection that you have never truly lost with Earth.

I wonder if much that ails our society stems from the fact that we have allowed ourselves to be cut off from that love of, and from, the land. It is medicine for broken land and empty hearts.

Restoring land without restoring relationship is an empty exercise. It is relationship that will endure and relationship that will sustain the restored land. Therefore, reconnecting people and the landscape is as essential as reestablishing proper hydrology or cleaning up contaminants. It is medicine for the earth.

She loves you. She's just forgotten how to show it.

Rereading books is like visiting old friends.

I felt for the first time that the library belonged here. The house was reclaiming its spirit, and the library, which had stood aloof and apart for so many years, was turning back into what it was always meant to be: the heart of this home.

let me belong again to that faraway place I left so long ago, from which I am alienated, and which has forgotten me, in which I am an alien now even though it was the place where I began, let me belong again, walk those streets knowing they are mine, knowing that my story is a part of those streets, even though it isn't, it hasn't been for most of a lifetime, let it be so, let it be so

Let the rich man rediscover the poor one; the free man the pisoner; and the resurrected man the corpse.

My father had not been outside the house except to drive back and forth to work or sit out in the backyard, for months, nor had he seen his neighbors. Now he looked at them, from face to face, until he realized I had been loved by people he didn't even recognize. His heart filled up, warm again as it had not been in what seemed so long to him- save small forgotten moments with Buckley, the accidents of love that happened with his son. ~pgs 209-210; Buckley, Lindsey and Jack on Susie

It was hard to venture back near the place you'd been bred without settling into the characteristics of the person you'd been there.

She bought tennis rackets, didn't know if Wayne knew how to play. It had been so long for herself that she couldn't even remember how to score. She just knew that even when you had nothing, you still had love.

think I hit my head on something and knocked my shadow off. Are you going to stick it back on, or did it get away?

Anger tells us we've disconnected from life. The purpose in anger is to use it to come back to life.

We return to the places we're from; we trample faded corners and pencil in new lines.

I feel like everybody has an old flame: if you've had someone you've broken up with and then gotten back together with. Everybody goes through that. It's always a good moment when you've been away from somebody you loved for so long.

If it hadn't been for Senator Sanders, I don't know if I would've been brought back into the fold of politics.