Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

—Joseph Brodsky

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About Joseph Brodsky

Portrait of Joseph Brodsky

Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996), anglicized as Joseph, was a Russian and American poet and essayist.

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Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

—Joseph Brodsky

Man is what he reads.

—Joseph Brodsky

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

—Joseph Brodsky

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Friendship leads to human connection, which feeds your soul. More than kale or spinning or fifteen-minute naps under your desk, conscious communication with your clutch friends is the best form of self-care.

—Karen Kilgariff in Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered

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It's interesting, isn't it? That you can find yourself feeling so awkward in unfamiliar surroundings that you become more self-aware and more self-conscious? Maybe that lack of connection to an unfamiliar place can actually give you freedom to open up and see yourself.

—Lauren Graham in Maybe

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Yes, now. Now, please now, only now, not anything else only this now, and where are you and where am I and where is the other one, and not why, not ever why, only this now; and on and always please then always now, always now, for now always one now; one only one, there is no other one but one now, one, going now, rising now, sailing now, leaving now, wheeling now, soaring now, away now, all the way now, all of all the way now; one and one is one, is one, is one, is one, is still one, is still one, is one descendingly, is one softly, is one longingly, is one kindly, is one happily, is one in goodness, is one to cherish, is one now…

—Ernest Hemingway in For Whom the Bell Tolls

For the Dargara people, death results in simply a different form of belonging to the community. It is a lesson… that change is the norm, that the world is defined by eternal cycles of decline and regeneration.… Death is not a separation but a different form of communion, a higher form of connectedness… providing an opportunity for even greater service.

—Malidoma Somé

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She's your one. The one who reaches you. The one who makes you different.

—Abbi Glines in Hold On Tight

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