Albert Einstein Quotes

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him.

No man is born unto himself alone; Who lives unto himself, he lives to none.

We are all interconnected in a web of kindness from which it is impossible to separate ourself.

Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

You do need people. You can't live without them. We're all interconnected in some way.

There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police We must love one another or die.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

Everybody's somebody's everything

No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.

Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who cleans your office. Happiness is not a noun or verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons.

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

I just think that the only way we come to ourselves is through each other.

I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a lot of life's value if you don't see yourself as a member of the family of man.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

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.

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.

No one person is an island.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals.

I feel that each and every one of us as individuals has a responsibility to one another. None of us would be here without the help of someone else - whether it be guardians, teachers, parents, relatives, etc. - someone contributed to your well being as a person. We're all connected in so many different ways.

I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.