“Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That’s an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don’t want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you’d rather have a discussion that was a discussion,…”— Ed Sheeran, glamour.com
“It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.”— Dan Simmons, amazon.com
“Ultimately, the universe doesn’t care about us. Time doesn’t care about us. That’s why we have to care about each other.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“I don’t think that anything happens by coincidence. No one is here by accident. Everyone who crosses our path has a message for us. Otherwise they would have taken another path, or left earlier or later. The fact that these people are here means that they are here for some reason.”— James Redfield, amazon.com
“Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.”— Frances Hodgson Burnett, amazon.com
“People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections.”— Khaled Hosseini, denverpost.com
“Our connection is paper thin—or, like sutures, weaving through the sinews of my heart, stitching fragments of you to me, of me to you to your chest cavity, laying claim, filling those hollow spaces, making you whole so you won’t miss me, haven’t missed me since I’ve been gone.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“The conversation between your fingers and someone else’s skin. This is the most important discussion you can ever have.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.com
“How can we mindfully navigate this life? Can we foster a sense of interconnection with all life on this earth?”— Jack Kornfield, twitter.com
“Maybe we’ll always be connected across the expanse of space and sky, and when I lift my head from the pillow, you’ll feel my energy too. You’ll wonder why you’ve felt so restless ever since I left.”— Marisa Donnelly, shopcatalog.com
“I know those controversial comments get replies but I don't think they change anyone's mind. Like, screaming at each other is a bad way of listening, but I think it's also a bad way of getting heard.”— John Green, youtube.com
“All these bad ways of starting conversations, they're effective ways to start conversations because we all feel compelled to respond. Like, hostility generally gets answered with hostility.”— John Green, youtube.com
“Connect with people who see your potential, people who want to invest their time and effort in you and help you grow.”— Kim Cruz, twitter.com
“We wish to talk to each other about life and death, about love, despair, loss, and innocence. We sense that in order to live together we must learn to speak of peace, of history, of meaning and values. The big words.”— Patricia Hampl, amazon.com
“I think that when you have a connection with someone, it never really goes away. You snap back to being important to each other, because you still are.”— Jenji Kohan, Alex Vause, Laura Prepon, imdb.com
“It takes courage to choose hope over fear. As I look around the world, I’m starting to see people and nations turning inward, against the idea of a connected world and a global community. The path forward is to bring people together, not push them apart. I hear fearful voices calling for building wa…”— Mark Zuckerberg, developers.facebook.com
“One reason old souls are so good at seeing multiple points of view is that they understand that people have a lot more in common than they realize. While most see the differences between individuals and groups, old souls see the points of connection.”— Jen Hubley Luckwaldt, rodalesorganiclife.com
“How many times had I let myself connect with someone only to have it thrown back in my face?”— Jay Asher, amazon.com