Sandi Toksvig Quotes

Any time you can be with like-minded people, laughing or crying over the same joke or the same scene... For me, it's therapeutic. You just feel a little less alone on the planet.

We hunger for connection to a larger community.

We humans are not born alone; joining and being active in a club whose members share your passion for ideas and get your jokes is one of the great joys of life.

Pack is for comfort when you hurt, I thought, putting my head back down. And for the first time in a long time, maybe the first time ever, I appreciated being a part of one.

Suffering is easier to endure when shared.

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

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.

The thing about being an Indian person is that you feel most at home with your own people.

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

The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are the things that can mirror back to you what you're experiencing, and can affirm to you that the stories you are telling are true.

At the end of the day, humans are social animals and we are at our best when we get to do things with others who appreciate and enjoy what we enjoy. It's what keeps us human.

I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.

People talk about alienation in the city. Diners are a place where you feel comfortable, an extension of your house.

There's enough hard stuff going on in people's lives, and you really need that joy that laughter can bring. I don't have to put that in a Christian compartment.

Being able to laugh at a situation can help you hang on to your perspective. And there's an intimacy in laughter that nothing else can come close to.

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.

If you can have a laugh with someone, you're then in each other's world.

We felt like we just got surrounded by this community of friends.

People could empathize with other people who had gone through the same experience as they had.

So many things can be filtered through fandom - joy, compassion, love.

When I talk to another Afghan I am his or her equal and that moves me to tears.

I just always wanted to be part of something where I felt like I belonged.

To be a member of something. To be a member of something helps get rid of that lonely feeling.

There's nothing more gratifying than making someone laugh in today's time when everybody is grappling with some issue or the other.