Tony Kushner Quotes

Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who cleans your office. Happiness is not a noun or verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.

We live in community, and we're created in community. We're created out of the unity of two people, and then we're made into a family. It's just inherent in who we are.

Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.

You do need people. You can't live without them. We're all interconnected in some way.

What I've always valued is people.

A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.

We all act as hinges-fortuitous links between other people.

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

I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? And there's not a lot known about that.

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.

Everything happens through relationships.

No one person is an island.

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.

No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

We're all connected, related, part of one another's lives through the stories we tell ourselves and each other. For good and for bad.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

Everybody's somebody's everything

However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation - to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our coworkers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships.

Think back to the most important experiences of your life, the highest highs, the greatest victories, the most daunting obstacles overcome. How many happened to you alone? I bet there are very few. When you understand that being connected to others is one of life's greatest joys, you realize that life's best comes when you initiate and invest in solid relationships.

No man is born unto himself alone; Who lives unto himself, he lives to none.

Nobody can survive alone, in this world. People have bonds, and sometimes those bonds are broken. And then, that person goes spinning off and connects with someone else.

A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he had understood the nature of human beings - they needed each other even when they appeared hostile, and it was very sweet to be loved by them.

The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons.

Nobody exists in a vacuum.

My big thing is people. I just love people in my life.