284 quotes found
“The skin is a variety of contingency: in it, through it, with it, the world and my body touch each other, the feeling and the felt, it defines their common edge. Contingency means common tangency: ...”
“Eating connects us to our histories as much as it connects our souls to our bodies, our bodies to the earth.”
“We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another. On rare occasions there is total collision, but m...”
“In a universe devoid of life, any life at all would be immensely meaningful. We ARE that meaning. And what we see, says the poet Mary Oliver, is the world that cannot cherish us, but which we cheri...”
“To maintain any degree of sanity, we must believe that everything is interconnected on some level and to experience that level fully once in a while.”
“It came to me in whole form that the energy of the Universe swirled and coalesced and formed into suns and cooling planets orbiting those suns. And on the planets (one specifically that I know of) ...”
“We truly can reconfigure how we see ourselves and reclaim the love for ourselves that were innately capable of.”
“Although love is often depicted as starry-eyed and sweet, love for the self is made of tougher stuff.”
“And Lotto beamed with pleasure, preening, eyes darting around to see which kind soul in the room could have sent along the champagne, the force of his delight such that wherever his eyes landed, th...”
“From the deepest silence between us arose uncertain, utterly vague and, as it were, whispered varieties on the theme smile.”
“Lovers are easy to find and easy to forget but finding an authentic connection is exceptional and limited. It rarely happens, which is why there are so many unhappy people out there.”
“The extraordinary triumph of the cellphone among Indias poor stemmed from its ability to enable a most mundane human need, which is to chat with other people. And when the poor chat, it is not alwa...”
“She wasn't entirely sure how she felt, All she knew was that he entered her world And she felt more alive than she had before, secretly wishing he was feeling the same.”
“Intensity of connection,Depth of emotion,Unified thoughts,No doubts in the significance of you.”
“A personal brand is determined by what you have created, whom you have connected, and how you have made those people feel.”
“Not everything that happens during the day is an open portending a good or evil development in the future, but everything has meaning to one degree or another, for the world is an ever-weaving tape...”
“Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.”
“The true Renaissance person is endowed with panoramic attention.... The habit of noticing the ensemble of everything and its constituent parts is a matter of will, not of innate aptitude. It involv...”
“If Christians insist only on condemning what they don't like, they will cut themselves off from that shared cultural life.”
“Someone once joked, Hell is other people. But the truth is that connection to other people can be sacred. Why else did God give so many people life? (Adam was't enough.) Or more simply, why else wo...”
