Nora Roberts Quotes

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.

Because everything of value that we will know in this life comes from our relationships with those around us. Because there is nothing material that measures against the intangibles of love and friendship.

You meet people, you part ways, sometimes you cross paths again. Mostly, you don't.

That's really what ultimately matters - the emotions and feelings that you experienced and people around [whom] you experienced [them].

As you go through life you realize that the love that you have for the people in your life and their love for you is all that matters. It's really about how you regard them and how they regard you.

Relationships are at the core of any political system and economic system - any family - and I think we drifted away from understanding that in our country. The people-to-people level is critical. It is ironic, though - we can text with anybody in the world, we can have a videoconference with anybody in the world, but [there should be] an even higher premium on showing up and getting to know someone.

Ultimately, you're left with the people you love and who love you- everything else fades into oblivion.

When you connect with people, they want to help you.

The thing that is always important to me is the relationships. I feel like until I get around with the actual people that I am going to be working with there is only so much that I can do.

Part of life is a quest to find that one essential person who will understand our story. But we choose wrongly so often. Over the ensuing years that person we thought understood us best ends up regarding us with pity, indifference, or active dislike. Those who truly care can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive our worst sins. Rarely do we find someone capable of both.

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

Everyday I am reminded that our life's journey is really about the people that touch us.

Sexuality is, of course, a great way of having a conversation between people.

We have to listen to other people's stories. That's the thing. And that's the only way that we eventually get to know ourselves.

Love is not something people feel, but something people try to express no matter how they feel.

We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can't get across that gully.

Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy.

Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery... brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run to.

The most important thing in life will always be family. The people right here, right now.

I have stayed in touch and connected with many over the years. I am very lucky that way. Some that you don't expect to connect with you will wind up loving. The ones that you look the forward to the most will sometimes let you down.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.

When we die our entire legacy is simply the added together strengths of all the connections we make with others. This is the ghost of ourselves we leave behind. This is showing up.

The great irony to Dirk [Gently] is that he sees connections in everything, but the one thing he fails and struggles with most is connecting with other people.

You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.