Quotes About Connection

Mum turned around in the passenger seat and looked at me and smiled and the smile had a slightly crumpled quality, her eyes glazed with tears. I felt it. The weight of Mum. The weight of being a son that had gone wrong. The weight of being loved. The weight of being a disappointment. The weight of being a hope that hadn't happened the way it should have.

their friendship became just a vapour trail of sporadic Facebook and Instagram likes

Love was a way to live forever in a single moment

If you truly feel part of a bigger picture, if you can see yourself in other people and nature, if this you becomes something bigger than the individual you, then you never truly depart the world when you die. You exist as long as life exists. Because the life you feel inside you is part of the same life force that exists in every living thing.

The comfort, then, is the weird truth that in one sense we have most in common with others when we feel awkward and alone. Isolation is as universal as it gets.

We don't have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility. So let's be kind to the people in our own existence. Let's occasionally look up from the spot in which we are because, wherever we happen to be standing, the sky above goes on for ever.

So let's be kind to the people in our own existence. Let's occasionally look up from the spot in which we are because, wherever we happen to be standing, the sky above goes on for ever.

You sometimes have to look at what you know is there and discover the things right in front of you. The people you love.

In order to find the people who like you, it is first necessary to be you.

I miss you", she said into the air, as if the spirits of every person she'd loved were in the room with her.

Well, what would you say if I said that I have visited my other lives, and I think I have chosen this one?' 'I would think you were insane. But I'd still like you.' 'Well, I have. I have had many lives.' He smiled. 'Great. Is there one where you kiss me again?' 'There is one where you buried my dead cat.' He laughed. 'That's so cool, Nor. The thing I like about you is that you always make me feel normal' And that was it.

Kissing was very much like eating. But instead of reducing the appetite, the food consumed actually increased it. The food wasn't matter, it had no mass, and yet it seemed to convert into a very delicious energy inside me.

Never be cool. Never try to be cool. Never worry what the cool people think. Head for the warm people. Life is warm. You'll be cool when you're dead.

The only reason I am still in this life is because of you . . .' She lunged forward and kissed him.

And that had led to them talking about social media – he believed that the more people were connected on social media, the lonelier society became. 'That's why everyone hates each other nowadays,' he reckoned. 'Because they are overloaded with non-friend friends.

Once we take our personal unseen experiences and make them seen, we help others, and even ourselves, to understand what we are going through.

Things had faded between them until their friendship became just a vapour trail of sporadic Facebook and Instagram likes and emoji-filled birthday messages.

loving and being loved back was a hard thing to get right, but when you managed it, you could see forever.

Places don't matter to people anymore. Places aren't the point. People are only ever half present where they are these days. They always have at least one foot in the great digital nowhere.

is about finding the right person to hurt you?

Of course, most parents love their children instantly. But I mention it here because I still find it a remarkable thing. Where was that love before? Where did you acquire it from? The way it is suddenly there, total and complete, as sudden as grief, but in reverse, is one of the wonders about being human.

Check how a tweet/photo/status update is going down (and keep checking). Want to go offline, without going offline.

Andrew Martin

On Earth, social networking generally involved sitting down at a non-sentient computer and typing words about needing a coffee and reading about other people needing a coffee, while forgetting to actually make a coffee.