Glen Hansard Quotes

Relationships unlock certain parts of who we are supposed to be.

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

All of us, regardless of how we identify, need a community in which to grow our faith. We require the tangle of other souls to enlarge our hearts, to perfect our relationships with one another and to help us understand more deeply our better Selves (big 'S').

Relationships with parents, grandparents, friends, and siblings were important to me when I was young and have remained so throughout my life. Our relationships with other people both shape and reflect who we are. These relationships are infinitely fascinating to explore!

All the pictures in magazines and all of that is fun but in the end it's all about your soul and who you are and have you connected with the people.

The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that some people are born great, others achieve it, some have it thrust upon them. In truth, the ways in which your character is built have to do with all three of those. Those around you, those you choose, and those who choose you.

We fell in love with different people. Looking back, we might have done it in a different order, but we got invested. We really wanted to do the flashbacks because we wanted to explore who these women were on the outside versus the inside, and get a fuller picture of the masks we wear.

I think, over the course of one's lifetime, there are always certain core elements that are intriguing to you, and you take different looks as you get older, but it's something you keep coming back to. I've always been interested in the relationship between vulnerability and control. That's something that's a big thing for people, whoever they are, no matter how old you are. I think at different times, you're more aware than others.

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.

There is no other way to find ourselves but in each others faces.

We have to listen to other people's stories. That's the thing. And that's the only way that we eventually get to know ourselves.

How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in the world, where I fit in the lives of the people dear to me?

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

The bottom line in all of it is that, in life, it's all about people.

All relationships are your mirrors and all people are your teachers.

Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.

You know, we have two families: the one we're born into, and the one that we make for ourselves afterwards.

People are people, and they want to know about their own experiences.

I just think that the only way we come to ourselves is through each other.

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.

The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. It's other people. It's relationships. It's experience.

In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we can be.

Your roots, your family, your friends all become so much more important to you as you get older, especially if you are a wandering minstrel like me.

I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.

It took me 30 years to figure out who I really am, as a person, and who I want to surround myself with. I was very much the kind of person who would just meld in with whatever group I was near.