Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

No matter how convenient it is for us to reach out to people remotely, sometimes the most important task is to show up in person.

Try to do your best to look people in the eye and talk to them without a gadget being in between you all the time.

One of my New Year's resolutions was to interact more with people. That sounds quite technical, but literally face time. Not FaceTime, because that's a thing now, but to be in the room with someone. To turn your phone off. To sit and have dinner and just be there with somebody.

You know, it's recently come into focus for me why I want to be an actor: It's because of the connection I feel to people.

There is enormous value in face to face interaction.

The only thing people are interested in is people.

There's the caveman in us. The caveman in you says, "I want direct contact. I don't want a picture." The caveman in our body says once in a while, we have to go outside. We have to meet real people, talk to real people, and do real things.

She liked people. Me, I can take them or leave them, but mostly leave them.

So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.

I do feel there is a certain amount of distance and apathy that's created when you feel like there's a distance between you and the other people. So it's very easy to... when you have an app that sets it up where you very clearly swipe somebody's face off of your screen because you don't like the way they look, you're asking people to not appeal to their best selves. You're asking people to be brutal.

Thanks to the greatly improved possibility of communication, we overrate its importance. Even stronger, we underrate the importance of isolation.

One can't love humanity. One can only love people.

The network by itself is meaningless. Only the people were ever meaningful.

I'm a person who loves people. It's all about the vibe of the environment I'm working in.

On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?

People are always going to need physicality; they're going to want to meet other people even more. I've got faith in the physical angle. People have their needs. They won't forget about them.

With some of the bad things that come with love, there's also a lot of good. For example that connection... which I struggle to have with most people.

Maybe it's important to open up I people- people who are right there with you, not some thousand miles away in another universe. Or maybe it's something else. Maybe I should just settle for not knowing. Maybe it's just good to know that you're not the only one who doesn't know.

Meeting people in a genuine way and feeling like there is a vital and meaningful connection going on makes me come alive.

I am starting to get tired of relying on words. They are full of meaning, yes, but they lack sensation. Writing to her is not the same as seeing her face as she listens. hearing back from her is not the same as hearing her voice. I have always been grateful for technology, but now it feels as if there's a little hitch of separation woven into any digital interaction. I want to be there, and this scares me. All my usual disconnected comforts are bieng taken away, now that I see the greater comfort of presence.

The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the same way that people can.

Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul.

I'm a little bit antisocial and I recently discovered that I'm introverted. But the love between people makes me alive.

I realized that even I have weird intimacy issues with humans - like, I need my friendships to get deeper, I need to be locked in, I need to remember people's names. I know this sounds really stupid, but I just need to be more present in my life.

One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been from time to time in the closest intimacy.