Stephen Lovegrove Quotes

It turns out that people who are more socially connected to family, to friends, to community, are happier, they're physically healthier, and they live longer than people who are less well connected.

The absence of high-quality friendships is bad for your health, spirits, productivity, and longevity.

The degree to which we connect to a community is in proportion to our individuality.

All people want on this earth is to connect with others. Other than eating and sleeping. Human beings need to connect with other human beings. Otherwise, they lose their mind.

Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous affects will invade his heart, extravagant thoughts will germinate in his brain, like thorns in an uncultivated land.

We are all a unique person with everyone we meet.

People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being.

The local community is very important in one's life; the feelings of identification with a place and people.

One major challenge within happiness is loneliness. The more I've learned about happiness, the more I've come to believe that loneliness is a terrible, common, and important obstacle to consider.

I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.

American poverty is darkened by lonliness: poverty in so many poor countries …. Is brightened only by community. Helping people gain other people to lean on—not just offering cheaper health care and food stamps, tax cuts and charter schools—seems essential to making the American dream work …

Intimacy and community buffer stress.

I don't need friends.

I have wonderful friends. I'm not just a lonely old lady.

The more empathy you have and the more connected you are to society, the better off you'll be.

As humans, we need to reach out for support.

I've actually read that isolation is the enemy, so why do that to myself?

Loneliness is a huge issue for both individuals and for society. It's taken a long time for the issue to be treated seriously and for us to begin to understand the impact it can have.

People who are more isolated than they want to be from others find that they are less happy, their health declines earlier in midlife, their brain functioning declines sooner, and they live shorter lives than people who are not lonely.

Love, safety, belongingness and respect from other people are almost panaceas for the situational disturbances and even for some of the mild character disturbances.

Isolation and loneliness create the conditions for rapid aging. The key is to stay connected and open to new relationships throughout your life.

People who have at least three or four very close friendships are healthier, have higher wellbeing, and are more engaged in their jobs. But the absence of any close friendships can lead to boredom, loneliness, and depression.

You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.