Grace Lin Quotes

There's a great need to convene at the table with family and friends. People are feeling it and wanting it. For me to be a minor player in helping with that, it makes me so happy.

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

I have so many people out there that celebrate with me when they know that I'm happy. And they hate it when they know that I'm suffering because someone has hurt me.

Be in community, go out to dinner together, do things together. We lose that, we lose a lot. It's important to come together.

Life is better when you share it.

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

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

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

Where there is love there is life.

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

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

You can never have too many friends.

I realized that food was actually a metaphor for bringing us all together. It's about us communicating and being like family.

Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.

I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen.

I think family, friends and a sense of community give you greater happiness than money. But, of course, one has to have a minimum on which to live. The joy I get from sitting around and having a laugh is immeasurable - much greater than anything that I have ever bought.

'96 is the year of love. We all need to pull together.

There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.

Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us.

The fact is that we like each other very much, and we of course see each other on stage all the time, but this means more time to spend together, and that's great. We couldn't be happier.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

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

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

We must build relationships, get to know one another's children, open our arms rather than close our hearts.

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.