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- "We live in an age where we feel guilt whenever we have to cut someone off but the reality is that some relationships do need to die, some people do need to be unfollowed and defriended. We aren’t meant to be this tethered to the people in our past. The Internet mandates that we don’t burn bridges and keep everyone around like relics but those expectations are unrealistic and unhealthy. Simply put, we don’t need to know what everyone else is up to. We’re allowed to be choosy about who we surround ourselves with online and in real life, even if it might hurt people’s feelings." (Ryan O’Connell, You Don’t Have To Be Friends With Everybody)
- "Sometimes, letting go looks like the fall of the first snowflake, the fall of the autumn leaves, the rise of the Sun. Letting go, it can be beautiful." (Lukas W)
- "The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other." (JR)
- "Everyone's like sheep on social media; like, one person starts making noise, and everyone's like, 'Hey, yeah!' and then you got a whole bunch of people making noise at you." (Earl Sweatshirt)
- "Shallow emotions. An incapacity to feel genuine love. A need for stimulation. Frequent verbal outbursts. Poor behavioural controls. These are just some of the things that social media are encouraging in all of us. They're also a pretty comprehensive diagnostic checklist for sociopathy - in fact, that's where I got the list." (Milo Yiannopoulos)
- "We live in an age where there is a firehose of information, and there is no hierarchy of what is important and what is not. Where the truth is often fashioned through a variety of digital means. Are you your avatar? Who are you in social media? What face do you turn toward the world? How much does it have in common with who you actually are?" (David Carr)
- “Distracted from distraction by distraction” (T.S. Eliot)
- "Most people use social media not to unite, not to open their horizons wider, but on the contrary, to cut themselves a comfort zone where the only sounds they hear are the echoes of their own voice, where the only things they see are the reflections of their own face." (Zygmunt Bauman)
- "The great thing about social media is that it takes all the horrible things about the world and then catapults them directly into your face." (Chuck Wendig)
- "It amazes me that we are all on Twitter and Facebook. By ‘we’ I mean adults. We’re adults, right? But emotionally we’re a culture of seven year olds. Have you ever had that moment when are you updating your status and you realize that every status update is just a variation on a single request: 'Would someone please acknowledge me?" (Marc Maron)
- "What the eyes see, the mind believes." (Houdini)
- "In this age of the quantified self, we measure how many hours we slept, steps we took, calories we burned. Yet we know nothing about ourselves. We spend more time checking-in to our stats than our souls. Our experience is mined for data but not depth. We have all these numbers to improve now, but no idea how to dial back the numbness. / Life needn’t be a spreadsheet, yet our useless fascination goes on. We spend more time shopping, in considering the thread-count of our sheets before purchase, than we do soul-searching, that beautiful art of thinking about the quality and purpose of our lives. / We are addicted to the constant digital stream, often peering gape-mouthed into the sordid details of other people’s lives; in the process we have checked-out of reality, neglecting our own life so pregnant with potential and meaning. / If we are to measure and monitor and improve anything, let it be our presence and character, a mindfulness for who we are and how we are experiencing and relating with the world. Have I been true to myself? Have I lived vibrantly today? Have I loved openly today? Have I made a difference today? Let us check in to ourselves in these ways; for, in the end, these are the only measures that matter." (Brendon Burchard)
- "Nobody on their deathbed wishes they had taken more selfies." (Jonny Gellar)
- "Authorship has become very slippery, and the ownership of ideas has become less interesting today than the rapid sharing of them." (Michelle Grabner)
- "You didn’t actually eat it if you didn’t instagram it. And you didn’t think of it first if you didn’t status update it. You also don’t agree if you don’t retweet it. And that constant urge to prove ourselves - we did this and we saw that - through these truly distancing means, such as Facebook and Twitter and even our phones, is a sickness I pray to God my children don’t fall victim to." (Within this Soul)
- "Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us." (Lana Del Rey)
- "Boredom is different nowadays. It’s about super-saturation, distraction, restlessness. I am often bored but it’s not for lack of options: a thousand TV channels, the bounty of Netflix, countless net radio stations, innumerable unlistened-to albums, unwatched DVDs and unread books, the maze-like archive of YouTube. Today’s boredom is not hungry, a response to deprivation; it is a loss of cultural appetite, in response to the surfeit of claims on your attention and time." (Simon Reynolds, Retromania: Pop Culture’s Addiction to Its Own Past)
- "Sometimes we just have to cut off the dead branches in our life. Sometimes that’s the only way we can keep the tree alive. It’s hard and it hurts, but it’s what’s best." (Nicole Williams)
- "It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over." (Paulo Coelho)
- "There’s something beautiful about keeping certain aspects of your life hidden. Maybe people and clouds are beautiful because you can’t see everything." (Kamenashi Kazuya)
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