Albert Einstein Quotes

Men are not tied together by papers and seals. They are led to associate by resemblances, by conformities, by sympathies.

Humans are designed to be with other humans, even those with mixed blood. They need each other's laughter. They require each other's sorrows.

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.

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

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? And there's not a lot known about that.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership... these are scientific values we can point to.

It's human nature to want to be with other people.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.

Sports can bring people together in a way that politics cannot.

Thatcher was wrong. People don't exist - well, they don't flourish - as individuals. Life's about swapping ideas and communicating with other people.

I feel we have the opportunity of being part of a new and emerging category for human co-experience.

Twitter helped others to see me as a human being. And showed me their humanity, too.

And it’s not just that ‘we all need somebody to lean on’; recent work on giving support shows that caring for others is often more beneficial than is receiving help. . . . We need the give and the take, we need to belong. An ideology of extreme personal freedom can be dangerous because it encourages people to leave homes, jobs, cities and marriages in search of personal and professional fulfillment, thereby breaking the relationships that were probably their best hope for such fulfillment.

There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content; There are souls like stars that dwell apart, In a fellowless firmament; There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths Where highways never ran,-- But let me live by the side of the road, And be a friend to man.

We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — "Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought."

Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being.

Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

God created us to thrive on encouragement from others

Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone.

We're social animals; we're meant to be together, but we were never necessarily meant to be together without being together. That was never the plan, I don't think.

The point of life for me is just to make connections with people and share experiences with people.