Beanie Feldstein Quotes

There is always someone in the world who is better or worse off than yourself, and I've never seen that - in either direction - as a barrier to becoming friends with somebody.

When you're close to somebody, you can never really know how they're experiencing the world.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.

There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.

Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't equal to the complexity of human emotions.

Family is just the people you care about. We can bond with people that we have nothing in common with, even if it's just for a moment.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

I am often drawn to what appear at first to be 'dark' or 'difficult' subjects, but which, upon further examination, are always and only reflections of the ways human beings attempt, however clumsily, badly, or well, to connect with others.

What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.

I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.

Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.

Human beings have a lot of problems identifying themselves with other human beings who don't resemble them exactly. But there's something about drawing that means that anyone can identify to a drawing. I mean, people can identify themselves with Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse.

A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.

The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.

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

You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.

The thing about Buffy and Spike is they understand each other on a level that nobody else understands her.

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

I love experiencing other people's realities, seeing the world through their eyes for a short period of time.

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? And there's not a lot known about that.

I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another is really by knowing them... whether that's in a classroom, or a soccer team, or a food pantry, or any of those things. I mean, we're kind of more alike than we are different.

People are going to come into your life that need you, and being there for them makes the day worth living. People are going to come into your life that you need, and that's the really crazy thing.

There's no way for me to know, but my best guess, as it must be for everyone, is that other people are pretty much like me.