#connect

Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#attention #concentration #connection #eagerness #inspiration

Man can no longer live for himself alone. We must realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship with the universe. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#life

Our connection was like a hidden force pulling us towards one another, and resisting it took a strength that I didn’t know I could keep up for much longer. ↗

— Michelle Madow

#love #love-story #true-love #love

We are beasts, you know, beasts risen from the savannas and jungles and forests. We have come down from the trees and up out of the water, but you can never, ever fully remove the feral nature from our psyches. ↗

— Yasmine Galenorn

#consciousness #human-nature #interconnection #nature

Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#psychology #psychology

Invisible threads are the strongest ties. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#invisibility #thread #ties #connection

Calories don’t count if they’re connected to a celebration. Everyone knows this. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#connection

Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, and in the elegant way that they connect to one another, each to each. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#story #connection

It’s not great. What kind of connection is this? A one-way hotline to Pervyville?” I took a step forward, on a roll now. “It’s disgusting. Freaky—stop laughing, Seth! ↗

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

#seth #connection

I have never really thought of him as a person, either.... A guy whose strings were broken, who didn’t feel the root of his leaves of grass connected to the field, a guy who was cracked. Like me. ↗

— John Green

#connection