Emotional Bonding Quotes

But the experience that I had, which was basically just feeling loved and taken care of in a room full of thousands of people I didn't know, seemed to be a pretty strong sign that what I was doing was a good thing.

Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all unifying agents.

We treat our dogs as if they were "almost human": that is why they really become "almost human" in the end.

On my football field, I know what bliss is. My team cuddles more than the missus. We won't inject drugs, just oodles of hugs. I warm up my team with some kisses.

Unless we work to strengthening the family, … all the rest : schools, and playgrounds, and public assistance, and private concern, will never be enough to cut completely the circle of despair and deprivation.

When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening. She becomes what's happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once. On the other side of a plate-glass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time.

My friendships are very important to me.

Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.

Relationships. Ugh. You have to laugh sometimes.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

I was supposed to be adopted when I was five, but then my adoption was pushed back by two years.

When I imagine my viewer - and it sounds saccharine - but it's a family thing. People in line for my books came as families.

Music really is a way to reach out and hold on to each other in a healthy way.

But, I think that the reason I responded to this book, sort of paradoxically, is that it starts out like The Big Chill, sort of. Four friends, who are not quite happy with their life, and every year they get together for a week and look for some comfort from each other.

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers.

She makes love just like a woman.

Sex without love is like a goddamn business transaction. And sometimes both parties feel as if they got a good deal, but that doesn't make it any less so.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

When I've got a girlfriend, I like to be with them as much as possible, and I'm very affectionate.

Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.

I feel like I'm kind of a bit of a sponge in a way. Like, if people around me are going through things, I find it very hard not to be empathetic.

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.

When you hold a baby in your arms, you don't want to put it in a basket right away. You want to keep the baby close.