Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

Relationships are so important to all of us.

I think the most important thing in life is relationships. I think that feeds us almost like food.

Happiness, for me, is a function of the number of people I love, and I think joy and happiness is directly related to how many people are in our lives and how deeply we are bonded with those people.

Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.

I knew I could write infinitely about relationships. That's the most beautiful, most confusing, most rewarding, most heartbreaking thing in our lives - and not just romantic relationships: that's all relationships.

You can't make someone be your best friend.

It's the quality of your relationships that matters.

God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends.

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

You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.

I think most people would struggle to define their whole relationship with just one label - like: my girlfriend, boyfriend, brother, sister, confidantes, whatever - but in those moments, there's true joy in each other.

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

I've been my most happy and my most unhappy in relationships. I have family and friends and people I care very much about. I've got a really, really, really good life.

I'm very close with my family and friends.

I love being with my family, my friends, and my boyfriend.

The bonds of love are what connect us to the other side.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

To me, there's no greater reward than being around people you care about and can be present with.

The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.

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

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

How I measure riches is by the friends I have and the loved ones I have and the people that I care about in my life, and that's where my values are and that's where my riches are.