Quotes About Reconnection

After being away from it for so long, it's really nice to go out and have 10- or 15,000 people show up and enjoy it. It leaves you with a very good feeling.

There are two ways of knowing how good God is: one is never to lose Him, and the other is to lose Him and then to find Him.

and one knows, after a long time of solitude, after the many steps taken away from one's kind, toward the kingdom of strangers, the hard prayer inside one's own singing is to come back, if one can, to one's own, a world almost lost, in the exile that deepens, when one has lived a long time alone.

It's always great to see old friends, especially those I have not been able to see in 15 months.

away, but he swung back

We all get stuck. We all lose ourselves a little bit in a fantasy or in our jobs and forget how we feel about other things. It's really important to check yourself, to spend some time alone.

I just need some time away to remember why I stay.

After being on the road so much I want to spend more time with my family, who I hear are wonderful people.

How many times had she heard women in New York - maybe women everywhere, for all she knew - speak lyrically of how they wouldn't see friends for months, perhaps even years, and then it was as though they had never been apart. Picked up where we left off was the common phrase. It was supposed to signal some magical communion, but if you looked it right in the eye, it came down to this: the kinds of people they considered friends they might not even actually see for a long long time.

How many times she had heard women in New York - maybe women everywhere, for all she knew - speak lyrically of how they would't see friends for months, perhaps even years, and then it was as though they had never been apart. Picked up where we left off was the common phrase. It was supposed to signal some magical communion, but if you looked it right in the eye, it came down to this: the kind of people they considered friends they might not even actually see for a long long time.

We can go for weeks without talking to each other, but we never have to explain why we haven't been in touch. We simply pick up where we left off. That's true friendship.

At what point do we just re-create the people who have disappeared from our lives?

I have been struggling to find my way back into my body my whole life.

We can discover such civilized eating again

You never quite know when you may hope to repair the damage done by going away.

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

I really doubt it's a stroke of luck that she's turned up in your life again.

What you don't do is contacting someone you haven't reached out for 10 years and asking for money.

Rereading one's own novels after many years is always a fraught business, but when a novel has fallen out of print - 'The Very Model of a Man' is the only novel of mine that has - and so crops up infrequently in conversations with readers or indeed with oneself, revisiting it can be perilous.

After time away it always makes you realise how special it is to play for England and what an honour it is.

I just rediscovered my guitar.

When you start reconnecting with these missing [parts of yourself], you tend to realize that, until then, you had never really been incarnated on the planet. You thought you were, but if one considers the totality of your being, you were hardly there. You were literally all over space. The result was that you were sleeping your life instead of living it. Only when a gathering of all the parts has taken place inside your heart can you be fully present and find your real purpose on earth.

Sometimes we need to go home to find the parts of ourselves we left behind before we can truly become whole.

It was like they were strangers. Maybe they were, again.