Quotes about Connection

According to the Talmud, every blade of grass has its own angel bending over it, whispering, "Grow, grow.

The effort to untangle the human words from the divine seems not only futile to me but also unnecessary, since God works with what is. God uses whatever is usable in a life, both to speak and to act, and those who insist on fireworks in the sky may miss the electricity that sparks the human heart.

Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.

Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.

I felt the kindliness of the moss, which is all over everywhere once you get out of the made world. God's flooring. All the kinds, pillowy, pin-cushiony, shag carpet. Gray sticks of moss with red heads like matchsticks. Some tiny dead part of me woke up to the moss and said, Man. Where you been.

I should like to write my books only for the dear person who lies awake reading in bed until page last, then lets the open book fall gently on her face, to touch her smile or drink her tears.

That means you're my kid, I explained, and I'm your mother, and nobody can say it isn't so.

Always we walk each other home. And always we walk some of it alone.

I didn't wish to be comforted. "You can't replace people you love with other people," I said. "They're not like old shoes or something." "No. But you can trust that you're not going to run out of people to love.

I shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers.

How strange that a boy could make a kite of his pants, fly them around the world, and somehow arrive back at the house where everything began.

This is why we have families.... So we never have to go a single day without worrying ourselves sick.