Allen Ginsberg Quotes

It is important for everyone to keep in close contact and preferably be in physical proximity with their loved ones.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women, but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends.

The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever.

I not only enjoy a really great friendship with both my girls but also a close mother-daughter bond as well.

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.

People confuse friendship and relaxation. It's incredibly important to be relaxed - you don't have a chance if you're not relaxed. So I try very hard to relax any kind of tension. But friendship is different.

Although I really like the people I travel with, family is just different, and having them around at all times is a really nice thing - and a luxury.

Any one of us knows how happy you get when your best friend, or your sister, or your brother sends you a text and just says, "Hey, how are you? I was thinking about you." That's become such a important part of our lives.

Our children are extensions of ourselves in ways our parents are not, nor our brothers and sisters, nor our spouses.

It's the family you choose that counts.

Music really is a way to reach out and hold on to each other in a healthy way.

More than anything, for me, is how people really still do care about you.

Children need the wisdom of their elders; the aging need the encouragement of a child's exuberance.

It's really vital to have rock music because it connects the generations. It's important in that way.

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.

The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.

Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.

I realized that there were times when we talked not because we needed to communicate anything important, but simply because we each drew comfort from the other's voice.

In the end, that's what we all need more than anything else: to be there for each other, in every kind of situation.

It is important to have friends and family around that I love and trust and who love and trust me.

As we're growing and stuff, it's been amazing to feel so embraced and have them be so excited. I definitely leaned into my dad a little more starting out because once we actually started to get those people knocking on our doors and emailing.

Sisters are made by living everyday with each other and wearing each other down until the rough spots are smooth. They're made by sharing secrets you'd never tell mom, and out of doing things for each other just because you feel like it, not because you have to. I guess you could say sisters are 'grown,' not manufactured, in a very special place called a family.

The support of one's personality is friends. A part of one's self and a real foundation and existence.