Quotes About Connection

Don't worry about your abilities. You have the ability to love. That is enough.

quanto mais as pessoas estavam ligadas às redes sociais, mais solitária a sociedade se tornava.

The lonely mind in the busy city yearns for connection because it thinks human-tohuman connection is the point of everything. But amid pure nature (or the 'tonic of wildness' as Thoreau called it) solitude took on a different character. It became in itself a kind of connection. A connection between herself and the world. And between her and herself.

È la gioia più semplice, la più pura del mondo, penso, far ridere qualcuno a cui vuoi bene.

the more people were connected on social media, the lonelier society became.

It is lonely, this world, without a friend.

She felt the strangeness of being connected to the world through someone else.

Minäkin hymyilin, ja iloni siitä, että joku ymmärsi minua, tuntui ankkuroivan sieluni paikoilleen.

Politeness is often fear. Kindness is always courage. But caring is what makes you human. Care more, become more human

Sometimes the links between depression, anxiety, and productivity are undeniable.

Isobel held my hand. The glabrous underportion of her thumb stroked my skin. This unnerved me even more. I wondered why she was touching me. A policeman grips an arm to take you somewhere, but why does a wife stroke your hand? What was the purpose? It wasn't the touch Cosmopolitan had talked about, and it certainly didn't boost my mood. Did it have something to do with love? I stared at the small glistening diamond on her ring.

I soon discovered the act of talking is in itself a therapy. Where talk exists, so does hope.

Moments ago she had been in the garden with Ash and Nora and Plato

Maybe this was the only meaning humans had on this planet. Their purpose was simply to pursue the enlightenment of orgasm. A few seconds of relief from the surrounding dark.

So love is about finding the right person to hurt you?

They have mental hospitals and body hospitals, as if one doesn't directly affect the other. And so, if they can't accept that a mind is directly responsible for the body of the same person, they are hardly likely to understand how a mind—albeit not a human one—can affect the body of someone else.

After a while, with a dog on your lap, you realize there is a necessity to stroke it.

The silence of not needing to talk. Of just being together, of together-being. The way you could be happily silent with yourself.

Don't ever be afraid of telling someone you love them. There are things wrong with your world, but an excess of love is not one

And I felt an incredible excitement at being able to witness the love reemerge inside her, because it was a total, prime-of-life love. The kind that could only be possible in someone who was going to die at some point in the future, and also someone who had lived enough to know that loving and being loved back was a hard thing to get right, but when you managed it, you could see forever.

Nora had also felt that simply to be in his presence was to commit some kind of invisible crime.

Love is an attitude to life. It can save us.

seemed the more lives she lived, the harder it was to feel at home anywhere.

You are no longer insulated; but I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it."' 'What's that? A quote?' I ask. 'Fitzgerald.