Kanye West Quotes

Those who unlock your compassion are those to whom you've been assigned.

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.

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

I love sharing my stories and experiences with people and connecting to them on both a humorous and emotional level.

If I have a tombstone when it's all over, it will say, 'He tried to connect.'

I know that in my own personal life, the people who I have dated who are funny can get away with a lot more than the people who aren't.

I've not been in a live-in relationship. But I've been exposed to various kinds of equations that can exist between people. When I came from Bangalore, it was black and white. Over the years, I've realised that there's more to what we see on a day-to-day basis. There are all kinds of relationships, all kinds of equations.

Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.

A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person. If this person makes you feel good, then they're a person to be around; if they don't, they're not. Being in a band is different. The group is the more important part, and you have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you're in a group of people that you work with.

I got to thinking—when it was too late—you have to reach out to people. To your family, too. You can't just let them sit there, you should put your hand out. If they slap it back, well you reach out again if you care enough. If you don't care enough, you forget about them, if you can.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

And without understanding, could each properly love the other?

I do not believe in things. I believe in relationships.

You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.

I find people confusing.

You can't build a relationship with everybody in the room when you don't care about anybody in the room.

Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.

After all, the only way to communicate is to find someone who can comprehend; the only way to be forgiven is to find someone who is willing to forgive.

When you trust someone, you don't need to know everything.

All of us... when we think we are talking most intimately to someone else, are actually addressing an image we have of the person to whom we believe we speak.

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

Our lives are stories, and the stories we have to give to each other are the most important. No one has a story too small and all are of equal stature. We each tell them in different ways, through different mediums—and if we care about each other, we'll take the time to listen.

Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don't know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.

Our phones do play to our natural nervousness about being vulnerable to each other, but that doesn't mean that we can't we can't pull ourselves together, and say - we need to talk to each because it's in conversation, the most human and humanizing thing that we do, that empathy is born, that intimacy is born, that relationship is born.

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