Lidia Bastianich Quotes

Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.

I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen.

The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.

Parties are fun, but they don't create community.

I like to spend time with family and friends and share my experiences with them.

I love coffee, but I don't photograph it. That's not who I am. I'm a social creature, so my subject should not be the coffee. It's about being together with friends.

Life is better when you share it.

Humans are social beings, and we are happier, and better, when connected to others.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

I love spending time with my friends and family. The simplest things in life give me the most pleasure: cooking a good meal, enjoying my friends.

I realized that food was actually a metaphor for bringing us all together. It's about us communicating and being like family.

We need to have intimate, enduring bonds; we need to be able to confide; we need to feel that we belong; we need to be able to get support, and just as important for happiness, to give support. We need many kinds of relationships; for one thing, we need friends.

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family... and that's really important to me. Things can get so lonely without it.

Human beings are not designed to be alone. None of God's creatures are.

I'd like to get back to my family and friends - believe it or not, I do have some real friends.

We need to reach out - spend more time together.

Be in community, go out to dinner together, do things together. We lose that, we lose a lot. It's important to come together.

I live by myself, so I derive a lot of joy from being with my friends and their families.

I don't want people to be lonely. I would like them to find partners.

It's important to have a good social life.

Whenever you do a show, there are happy reunions of people; it's very familial.

I love to share in a scene - I'd rather share than be alone.

I've lost friends, perhaps dozens. But I've gained hundreds, thousands - who knows? - of allies.

Everybody understands companionship, wants it, gets it, no matter what it looks like.