Charles Handy Quotes

When we talk about having a life of significance and meaning, it's not about fame or money or resources. It's about people and lives and hearts. That's my biggest passion in life.

We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.

Love is the reason you were born.

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

Technology is best when it brings people together.

If you have love in your life, you have life.

What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life.

Connecting the dots is connecting people.

Maybe heaven entailed more than a soul residing in a single place, but instead having pieces of yourself spread among the hearts and memories of people you've touched.

Social media is fine, but we need to put the phones down and look somebody in the eye. Talk to your neighbor. Talk to your community. Especially talk to the one you love. It's all about connection. It's hard, but it's ultimately what gives us meaning in the world.

What's the point of being alive," she said, "if you're not going to communicate?

Love gives life purpose and meaning.

Our assignment comes with the alignment. Too many people look for the assignment without first finding their alignment.

When you know your not going to die, you have to ask yourself... What's the highest and best use for myself.

He measures our lives by how we love.

I thought about the bigger picture of my life, and about the people—and particularly the guys—I would encounter during my lifetime. How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed … connection?

All visions begin with relationships. My relationship with God is where I receive the vision; my relationship with my people is where I give the vision. If those relationships aren't what they could be or should be, on either side, the receiving or the giving out, the vision is going to be aborted.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live.

It's not the place, I think. It's the people. We'd have all been the same anywhere else.

We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.

When a poet writes a poem, meaning arises - because the poet is not alone; he has created something. When a dancer dances, meaning arises. When a mother gives birth to a child, meaning arises. Left alone, cut off from everything else, isolated like an island, you are meaningless. Joined together you are meaningful. The bigger the whole, the bigger is the meaning.

Life and work are the most wonderful things a man can have.

What I found interesting is that it's human nature to have a family.

(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.

I believe love opens people up.