Kallistos Ware Quotes

Friendships are among the most fundamental of human needs.

Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

What is one's personality, detached from that of the friends with whom fate happens to have linked one? I cannot think of myself apart from the influence of the two or three greatest friendships of my life, and any account of my own growth must be that of their stimulating and enlightening influence.

I have a great family by the way, but you need to find people who can pull something out from you that might be otherwise unseen.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

I have enjoyed every call. The ones involving direct contact with people have been most rewarding.

I meet people from different walks of life that I can have relationships with.

No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.

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

I think that's what the most fascinating part of getting to know someone is - to see how they do things, and how their way of doing things is different from your way of doing things, and the fun of trying to do it their way and to see what value there is in looking at things from their perspective.

We do become our conversations. We really will become our associations.

There are a lot of really valuable services that are always pushing you to communicate with other people. But there are relatively few services that are about helping you be the person you want to be and fulfilling your ambitions.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

With every person you meet, there is a new and exciting experience to be had.

Finding real friends - that's something that was an obstacle for me. And learning how to deal with my problems and talking about them.

We're kind of influenced by all the different people we meet.

Everybody I interacted with in my life, directly or indirectly, has placed a fingerprint upon my life. That combination has made me who I am.

When I was a kid, I was a really bad collaborator. I was pretty introverted.

A good life depends on the strength of our relationships with family, friends, neighbours, colleagues and strangers.

The real harvest of life is the outworking of the internal. If there's nothing in there, there's nothing to work out.

There is no fixed, true and real person inside of you or me, precisely because being a person necessarily implies becoming a person, being in process.

To live among friends is the primary essential of happiness.

When you realize that the real breakthroughs come from levels of higher consciousness, then you also realize that the achievement of maturity and wisdom is the most powerful generator of new beginnings possible.