Quotes About Connection

We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment.

In the wall-less house of sounds, humans became the animals that come together by listening. Whatever else they might be, they are sonospheric communards.

When I really feel like dancing, I want someone who knows how to lead.

Ihre Gedanken scheinen stillzustehen und mit ihnen die Zeit, und alles verbindet sich mit ihr, wird zu einem einzigen, wunderschönen Gefühl, das Licht, die Gerüche, die vereinzelten Geräusche, die die plötzliche Stille noch intensiver machen.

Es gibt mir das Gefühl, nicht allein zu sein, wenn ich nachts aufwache." "Du bist nicht allein." "Nein", sagte Agnes, "jetzt nicht.

Sie war unruhig, und doch schienen wir - ohne mehr voneinander zu wissen als unsere Namen - über Nacht vertrauter miteinander geworden zu sein.

Man nahm den Wald nur wahr, wenn man sich in ihm befand.

a personal relationship in an impersonal world

You'll never get anything done if you walk around with an unchipped heart.

To do magic, to do great magic, he has to know himself as a piece of the universe. A piece of the universe? A little piece that has all the rest of it in it. Everything outside of him is also inside of him.

Then, out of the blue, in a bookstore, he meets a woman who makes him laugh and, better yet, makes him want to make her laugh.

If people are forced to suppress the emotion of love for their fellow human beings then they certainly can't have love for anything else, including God.

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ein Philosoph ist ein Mann, der in Ermangelung einer Frau die ganze Welt umarmt.

Finally, for research like this, the quality of the translators is crucial. Kirundi is a language of allusion and proverbs: information is conveyed between the lines, hinted at, but rarely expressed directly. The challenge is also social: the translator is the front-line person who interacts with the interviewees, making the connection, maintaining the social aspects of the relation, putting people at ease.

Mobility A surprisingly large number of answers related peace to mobility. For example: Peace is being free to move around and visit friends and family. (Twenty-four-year-old female, remote colline in Busiga) When you can visit others there is peace. (Eighteen-year-old man, Ruhororo IDP camp) A place where you can come and go as you wish, that is peace. (Twenty-year-old male student, Bwiza)

To get the xs to compose something, one need only bring them into contact; if the xs are in contact, they compose something; and if they are not in contact, they do not compose anything.

It's really kind of… well, beautiful, in a way. Even the monsters, once you get to know 'em. We're all beautiful.

Everyone's got intimacy issues these days, in case you hadn't noticed." He must have; the population had been dropping for decades.

I love other creatures almost as much as I hate people

You give up a lot when you don't trust the EM spectrum.

IF I CAN BUT MAKE THE WORDS AWAKE THE FEELING. —Ian Anderson, Stand Up