Randy Pausch Quotes

Coming to know one another based on a shared humanity through dialogue is the key to breaking down the walls of isolation and reversing the decline of life-to-life bonds among human beings.

I think sharing experience makes everything better. When people get talking about how they've overcome something or how they haven't, it's nourishing.

Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than we know ourselves. We need them to tell us. We need them to say, "I know you, Al. You are not the kind of man who.

Friends broaden our horizons. They serve as new models with whom we can identify. They allow us to be ourselves-and accept us that way. They enhance our self-esteem because they think we're okay, because we matter to them. And because they matter to us-for various reasons, at various levels of intensity-they enrich the quality of our emotional life.

My son took many years to learn the simple truth. You cannot love any one person adequately until you have made friends with the rest of the human race also. Adult love demands qualities which cannot be learned living in a vacuum of resentment.

It's proper that people have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely.

[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68)

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

Anytime you share life stories with other people, you know, you are acknowledging their humanity and kind of accessing some things about yourself, and other people start to expect things about themselves. It's kind of like a fellowship.

I like people.

My favorite thing in the world is to have just a big dinner with friends and just sit and talk about their life and their difficulties and all of that.

I believe that we were meant to live as social creatures, to reach out and bless each other's lives.

People care about others in their immediate network.

The more empathy you have and the more connected you are to society, the better off you'll be.

That's the potential power of a single voice - a neighbor's, a teacher's, a parent's, a friend's. It can change you, make you feel as if you have a place in the world.

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

Working with different people anyway is like life and meeting different people... as long as you can be empathetic, you can take a bit of them on and see what you can do to help their process. That said, my relationship with Woody Allen was trying to hang on his every word so that I could tell everybody what he said afterwards. But certainly, he was a very good example of somebody who you didn't hear talk above a very low volume for the entire time he was on-set.

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.

You have to learn how to care about people without taking on all of their problems.

The dumber people are, the more they feel the need for a broad set of shoulders they can lay their head against.

When I find myself having to share a meal with someone who simply wants to complain about the world, I almost feel myself wanting to crawl out of my skin and just sort of scurry away. But being able to pick up on that stuff and being able to easily identify the people walking towards the light instead of walking towards the darkness, that's a skill I'm very, very glad to see growing in myself.

People need other people to feel things for them," she said. "It gets lonely to feel things all by yourself.

We... heal ourselves by giving others what we most need.

We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.