Jonathan Haidt Quotes

Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.

By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier.

I really care about people around me, and I can't live without my family and friends.

Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.

I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.

We need to have intimate, enduring bonds; we need to be able to confide; we need to feel that we belong; we need to be able to get support, and just as important for happiness, to give support. We need many kinds of relationships; for one thing, we need friends.

Everybody needs somebody.

I like having a woman. I like having someone to come home to, to make all of the hard work feel worth it. I need someone with me. And I want someone.

What makes a fulfilling relationship or fulfilling life is not simply found in another. It's found in a group of others.

What people don't realize is that everybody needs support, one way or another.

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

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

Friendships have been such an important part of my life both emotionally and logistically.

Family is anybody you sit down to a meal with - and very often, after college, your family is your friends or the people you work with.

It's not just the number of friends you have, and it's not whether or not you're in a committed relationship. It's the quality of your close relationships that matters.

The third discipline is community. Whom do you choose as your companions? Whom do you choose to be friends with, to live with? Are they people who love you, and care for you, and nurture you?

Lena realized that a fundamental layer of their happiness depended on the four of them being close to one another. Their lives were independent and full. Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives, but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.

You can't live entirely alone. You have to have some kind of a support system.

We can't expect everybody to be there for us, all at once. So it's a lucky thing that really, all you need is someone.

Social support is everything.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.

I don't want to be alone my whole life. It is much more fun to share what you have than to have it to yourself. And it isn't like I don't have love in my life. I have a lot of friends who love me and who I love.

Humans are social beings, and we are happier, and better, when connected to others.