Anais Nin Quotes

If one is aware and alive, then it is one's relationships that make you live. It makes life worth living.

I must remember that a good friend is a new world.

Friendship is something whose depth fits human aspirations and fulfills human possibilities. It has heft to it, as a gold-piece does and a gambling chip does not.

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.

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.

I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in their friends. It does give some depth and meaning to their lives.

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

All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.

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

Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with. The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.

To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even up.

I can understand companionship.

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.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.

The longer I go about living, I see it's the relationship that is most meaningful.

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

You can't make someone be your best friend.

The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.

Friendship is such an important thing to me, and I feel like the people who I love and help keep me whole - I can't imagine a life without them.

I just like people. We have a good time together.

I think one needs a companion at some point in life.

Relationships are so important to all of us.

I'm all for any place, any way, any media that can help people connect with somebody and not be lonely.

I really, really need community.