Charles de Lint Quotes

By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier.

What makes a fulfilling relationship or fulfilling life is not simply found in another. It's found in a group of others.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

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

The value of friends has always been a natural thing. I prefer too many to too few.

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

One of the most important parts of my life has been community.

Friendship is such an important thing to me, and I feel like the people who I love and help keep me whole - I can't imagine a life without them.

People crave comfort, people crave connection, people crave community.

Family is anybody you sit down to a meal with - and very often, after college, your family is your friends or the people you work with.

I don't think about it. I have always been linked up with everybody.

I really care about people around me, and I can't live without my family and friends.

Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who cleans your office. Happiness is not a noun or verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.

God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

I really like people and I keep friendships. I have people from all parts of my life.

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

While it's nice to appreciate the fashion world... what makes you happy are real relationships and the moments you share with loved ones.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

The bonds of love are what connect us to the other side.

Men come and go - God knows they certainly have in my life - but girlfriends are for ever. I have a lot of girlfriends but only a few very, very close ones.

Love alone could waken love.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.