John C. Maxwell Quotes

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

Everybody needs somebody.

I think one needs a companion at some point in life.

The women in the room chatted about love, about childhood, about losing parents, about Mr. Spock, about good books they'd read. They mothered each other.

I don't want to be alone my whole life. It is much more fun to share what you have than to have it to yourself. And it isn't like I don't have love in my life. I have a lot of friends who love me and who I love.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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.

How we need another soul to cling to.

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.

There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.

People are going to come into your life that need you, and being there for them makes the day worth living. People are going to come into your life that you need, and that's the really crazy thing.

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

When you see a struggle that you may be having personally put on a big screen and in a roomful of people, then it makes you feel less crazy or alone, because you're seeing that other people are dealing with it too. You get to see in this imaginary scenario how people might try and answer some questions or deal with some problems.

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.

Belonging has always been a fundamental driver of humankind.

No one was created to be alone.

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

Being with someone makes you happier and more content as a human being and takes your personality to greater heights and vice versa. And I don't think that's being too demanding.

We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we've cleared the way.

An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen, but greatens, his life.

In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond endearments and tender officiousness; and, therefore, no one should think it unnecessary to learn those arts by which friendship may be gained.

You can't live entirely alone. You have to have some kind of a support system.

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.

I often think that drama helps people feel less lonely about things.