Vera Brittain Quotes

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

I really like feeling connected to people and feeling like I have a good, solid sense of empathy.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

We must take our friends as they are.

I get to meet a lot of people, and I really like people.

I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.

I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

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

I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Communication is at the very core of our society. That's what makes us human.

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.

Every person you meet has a story.

Conversation is the most human and humanizing thing that we do.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Because you know what happens when you say 'hello' or 'good morning?' You make a connection. And isn't that what being human is all about?

That's what this game is about; it's about relationships.

Love has been defined, analyzed, explained and excused. It has been the cause of wars, feuds, heroism, martyrdom, inordinate passion, and beautiful friendships. It pulls two people of opposite temperaments together into a married state and permits them to live happily. It makes friends understand each other without the necessity of words.

Life is about relationships, not transactions.

One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.