Tom Rath Quotes

We engage in the public institutions of work and school and club and team, because it is there that we find meaning and purpose. But sometimes when we engage, we find confrontation not affirmation.

Social connection is such a basic feature of human experience that when we are deprived of it, we suffer.

We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.

I haven't isolated myself. I am not living on a yacht somewhere. I am not tucked away or behind a gate somewhere. I am not flying on a private plane. I am going to the airport, I am with people, some of the interactions are good, some of them are not so good, but it keeps me in touch with being, you know, part of society.

Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.

We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it.

We need to pay attention to each other. We are our brother's keepers. We are our sister's keepers.

I meet people from different walks of life that I can have relationships with.

When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.

Sometimes you can make friends, and sometimes you can take friends. Sometimes people want to be friends with you, and you gotta be like, 'Okay, I can deal with this person's personality and be their friend, but not necessarily do I have to change who I am. I'm not gonna change myself to be their friend.'

I've never been one to tear the social fabric.

I don't want to make more friends. I have four kids, I have plenty of friends, and all the personal relationships I need.

The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.

A city like London is sociable in a sense that there are people gathering in bars and restaurants, concerts and lectures. Yet you can partake of all these experiences and never say hello to anyone new. And one of the things that all religions do is take groups of strangers into a space and say it is OK to talk to each other.

L.A. is such a real, active place. My mother was very into the core of the city. She worked in politics, and you have to know your territory. It's an active matrix; we're all parts of it, but people don't often stop to wonder what's going on.

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

Man has been adjudged a social animal.

By my senior year in high school, I was friends with every group.

Our species likes being social.

How do I make the son, daughter, wife of Paterno interesting? Then you just have to start seeing people.

Any time you make more than a couple of friends at an event, I think that you actually made no friends.

I would rather see a game where you play to feel happier and to make other people like you and to make the people you care about happy.

Baboons who have friends do much better in terms of their physiology. And if that applies to a baboon, it could certainly apply for a human.

It turns out that people who are more socially connected to family, to friends, to community, are happier, they're physically healthier, and they live longer than people who are less well connected.

I think it's very important to be part of the Boston society and the people who live in Boston.