connection

Humility is not thinking less of yourself. It’s thinking of yourself less.

The particularity of our problems can be made bearable only through the recognition of our universal humanity. We suffer uniquely, but we survive the same way.

cheryl strayed • Brave Enough

“These days, it’s easy to feel that we’ve fallen out of connection with one another and with the earth and with reason and with love. I mean: we have. But to read, to write, is to say that we still believe in, at least, the possibility of connection.”
― George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on

moments defined not by their grandeur, but by their authenticity, by the genuine connection they foster.

Evan Armstrong • Live Fuller, Not Bigger

Ideas related to this collection