Brian Chesky Quotes

To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere.

He has learned that God uses solitude to teach us how to live with other people.

I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.

With relationships, I've been through a lot of different situations with different people, and I write about it.

If we look honestly at our relationships, we can see so much about how we have created them.

Part of growing up is realizing you learn to love so many people. It's about forming those relationships and finding what will last forever.

What's valuable to me has become clearer as I've got older. To me, it's about the value of your time and your day and the value of the people you spend it with.

I don't treasure things much - just people. And pets.

I have been with some great organizations, crossed paths with special people, and made numerous lasting relationships.

Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.

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

I really love to be with people. It's nice, that. To have achieved sudden intimacy with strangers is perhaps the most human thing you can do. We all love our friends and families, as much as we hate them. When you can achieve intimacy with strangers, it's very exciting and heartening.

I remind myself that I'm always more satisfied by human interaction than by a digital connection.

I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.

Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even up.

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

Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.

I haven't had many relationships.

All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.

Having a child with someone, you're always going to be respectful of that. But the song 'I Bet' was honestly inspired by my life experiences - I can't just say it's from one experience.

Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.

Acting for me is finding those things that, finding the strings of humanity that tie us all together. And you only find that by living life and loving and breaking up.

The stories we can tell are those that happen to us; we meet, work, live, laugh, love, demonstrate, strive in community.