Human Connection Quotes

"Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret." "Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being" "You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving" "True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it." "The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time." "Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That’s why they look alike. " "The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance." "Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine" "The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love" "Muddling up loneliness and companionship as usual" "There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor" "We all need someone to look at us to see the real, deeply buried person underneath the surface, more than we need another person to talk." "Only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn’t exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive." "Love is something more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives" "I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen" "Only someone who is sincere recognizes the value of us thinking that we do not love enough" "Life is comfortable when you separate yourself from people who are different from you but it’s never what God intended." "Sometimes, it's hard to leave yourself behind and step into somebody else's shoes." "Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant " "The happiest people are not the ones with the most money or the most stuff, but the ones who have invested the most time in others"