David A. Bednar Quotes

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

Happily, though we must each walk through life on our own, we don't have to do it alone.

We were not placed on this earth to walk alone.

The journey never happens alone.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others.

I'm not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work.

As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.

Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.

You cannot heal yourself. You cannot heal anybody else. We're designed to do this in community because we were created inside community for community by community.

Friendship is such an important thing to me, and I feel like the people who I love and help keep me whole - I can't imagine a life without them.

I need to feel part of something.

That's my message: I'm not alone, and neither is anyone else.

A lot of the things that we do in life are to find connection.

You are not alone in the world. You are part of an ensemble.

We belong to each other.

Friends are like coals in a fire - together, they glow; apart, they grow cold.

Life is better when you share it.

There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he's held up by the others until he regains his footing.

Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.

No man is an island. No man stands alone.

By being friends with all, we are not alone.

I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in their friends. It does give some depth and meaning to their lives.

Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.