R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

We've been in each other's pockets our entire lives.

The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

We all need one another; much and often. Just as every human creature needs a place to be alone in, a sacred, private "home" of his own, so all human creatures need a place to be together in, from the two who can show each other their souls uninterruptedly, to the largest throng that can throb and stir in unison.

We are not, and never need be, alone.

You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.

We're all going through our problems, but we all have the same insecurities and we all have the same abilities and we all need each other.

What we share may be a lot like a traffic accident but we get one another. We are survivors of each other. We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something.

We are created for community, fashioned for fellowship, and formed for a family, and none of us can fulfill God's purposes by ourselves.

Every great group is an island... but an island with a bridge to the mainland.

Now and then it's clear to me, that need is love, and love is need.

We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws.

You fixed yourself. You didn’t need me.” “No, Sydney.” My voice was ragged. “I do need you. You have no idea how much I need you.

We live in community, and we're created in community. We're created out of the unity of two people, and then we're made into a family. It's just inherent in who we are.

The thing we need most is each other.

How much finer things are in composition than alone.

The church isn't simply a collection of isolated individuals ... we need to learn again the lesson that a hand is no less a hand for being part of a larger whole, an entire body. The foot is not diminished in its freedom to be a foot by being part of a body which also contains eyes and ears. In fact, hands and feet are most free to be themselves when they coordinate properly with eyes, ears, and everything else. Cutting them off in an effort to make them truly free, truly themselves, would be truly disastrous.

We need each other to do things that we can't do for ourselves. If we are intimately connected with each other, we just give things to each other; if we don't know each other we find another way to handle it. If you think about it, each according to his or her abilities and each according to his or her needs is sort of the same thing as supply and demand.

If we were good at everything we would have no need for each other.

I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me

In most vital organizations, there is a common bond of interdependence, mutual interest, interlocking contributions, and simple joy.

No man is an island unto himself.

Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there; She gives the best light to his sphere; Or each is both, and all, and so They unto one another nothing owe; And yet they do, but are So just and rich in that coin which they pay, That neither would, nor needs forbear, nor stay; Neither desires to be spared nor to spare. They quickly pay their debt, and then Take no acquittances, but pay again; They pay, they give, they lend, and so let fall No such occasion to be liberal. More truth, more courage in these two do shine, Than all thy turtles have and sparrows, Valentine.

A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.