Brene Brown Quotes

I think that human beings are often looking for a reason to relate.

So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.

All people want on this earth is to connect with others. Other than eating and sleeping. Human beings need to connect with other human beings. Otherwise, they lose their mind.

She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.

I think that's what we all want on this earth - to feel that at some level we have connected with other human beings.

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

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

I like people.

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

I love people. I enjoy people.

Humans need to touch each other. We need to look at each other… We are human creatures, meant to be linked… So, yes, it's a gift for me to be able to look at somebody that I know or don't know, that I love or maybe not love, and to be able to connect.

This idea of shared humanity and the connections that we make with one another - that's what, in fact, makes life worth living.

I feel that we Germans are spending less and less time talking to each other. And even less time listening to each other.

Whatever the reason is, I am happiest when connecting with the human experience. It lets me know that I'm not alone in this world.

Unless we give part of ourselves away, unless we can live with other people and understand them and help them, we are missing the most essential part of our own human lives.

I said there are at least two kinds of satisfaction, however, and the other has nothing to do with skill. It comes from human connection. It comes from making others happy, understanding them, loving them.

The value of emotions comes from sharing them, not just having them.

When we're connected to others, we become better people.

But life's joys are only joys if they can be shared.

We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.

The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering for want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did not know that I was suffering at all. Secondly, as an Irishman might say, I had thought it was indigestion of the society I got.

We’re creatures of contact regardless of whether/ we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together.

More and more do I feel, as I advance in life, how little we really know of each other. Friendship seems to me like the touch of musical-glasses--it is only contact; but the glasses themselves, and their contents, remain quite distinct and unmingled.

I don't remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far less interesting than the adventures and dialogues I read in my books.