Chance The Rapper Quotes

But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.

Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.

Everything happens through relationships.

To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he had understood the nature of human beings - they needed each other even when they appeared hostile, and it was very sweet to be loved by them.

Without love, the world itself would not survive.

Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who cleans your office. Happiness is not a noun or verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.

The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.

Intimacy is important in my work because I don't understand existence without intimacy. All of us are dependent on other people - and in ways we don't know. You cross the street and assume that person isn't crazy, they don't want to mow me down with their car. I don't know that person but I am already in a relationship with them. I am asking them to abide by the traffic laws. If they decided not to, I'd be dead. Even in those anonymous ways, we're in relationships.

We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons.

I just think that the only way we come to ourselves is through each other.

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

Technology is teaching us to be human again.

No one person is an island.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

You do need people. You can't live without them. We're all interconnected in some way.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

We're now married to the world. But we keep acting like we're on a big date.

Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain.

I think that sometimes we open our hearts a little more easily to animals than we do to each other.

What I've always valued is people.