Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

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

You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

If you have a friend, things are better than if you didn't have a friend.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

I think the most important thing in life is relationships. I think that feeds us almost like food.

Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.

If one is aware and alive, then it is one's relationships that make you live. It makes life worth living.

How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people.... Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.

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

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

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

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

I could hold on to everything for the rest of my life. I don't make friends easy, and I don't lose friends easy.

Everybody needs somebody.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.

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

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.