Reconnection Quotes

We're not trying to be something we aren't; rather, we're reconnecting with who we are.

I did not in late November start the plethora of linking my private life with public events again.

Relationships are always worth restoring.

Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

The true Resurrection is based not on the mythical lie of the guilty victim who deserves to die, but on the rectification of that lie, which comes from the true God and which reopens channels of communication mankind itself had closed through self-imprisonment in its own violent cultures.

When your thirteen colonies won their freedom from Great Britain you took a brand from our council fire and kindled your own fire. Now the same fire is trying to consume the very people who taught you the worth of such a fire. The hand that guided and protected your ancestors is now open to you for justice.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart... Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again.

Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them.

I knew it,’ she says. ‘I knew I had met you before. I knew it the first time I saw your photograph. It’s as if we had to meet again at some point in this life. I talked to my friends about it, but they thought I was crazy, that thousands of people must say the same thing about thousands of other people every day. I thought they must be right, but life… life brought you to me. You came to find me, didn’t you?

Playing with Iggy pulled me back in for a while and reminded me of what I love about music.

I love and have respect and admiration for everybody in my past. I don't have any animosity toward anybody.

Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

We only part to meet again.

I never thought I'd be able to go back to Ukraine.

We'll Meet Again' is the one that means more to me than anything.

Quarrels are a natural part of relationships. Making up is always the best part.

I've given up trying to reason with people who despise me.

When I lived in New York City, I loved it so much. But every six months, I had to go home to Texas to remember who I was. Get filled back up.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

A lot of times as an actor you watch a film it's like thumbing through a photo book from your past. It's people you haven't seen in a while, there are people that have passed away, and there are people you owe phone calls to.