Robert McAfee Brown Quotes

Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes identity. These are natural and very human instincts.

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.

One of the most important parts of my life has been community.

She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.

Life is better when you share it.

I have friends who were friends of mine before I did music and they are my friends now, and we share life experiences. It's no fun unless you're sharing with people, looking out for them as they are looking out for you.

Success is nothing if you don't have the right people to share it with; you're just gonna end up lonely.

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

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

I just really like people, and being a freelancer can be lonely during the day, when you're at home trying to write anything you can. 'Flight Of The Conchords' was so wonderful because I had a family for two years.

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.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

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

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

My theme is, 'The spirit of friendship is the balance of life.' Not money. Not the World Series. It's friendship. The relationships I have with people, that's enough to keep me happy.

I'd like to get back to my family and friends - believe it or not, I do have some real friends.

No one was created to be alone.

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

I never want to feel too far away from people. I think that's when you get in trouble.

I really, really need community.

The happiest people are the ones with the most community.

It's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends.

Solitude is only a good idea if you have the right people along to share it.