Shane Claiborne Quotes

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

I often find myself writing about people taking care of each other, or trying to.

People would say, 'Can I hug you?' And I would say, 'Yes, you can hug me! We're fellow New Yorkers!'

The more we reach out and become vulnerable and share our stories, the more people we will meet that will unite and help us to achieve more equality.

Life is about relationships, not transactions.

And I think that's what our world is desperately in need of - lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with fellow strugglers along the way, and who actually know the faces of the people behind the issues they are concerned about.

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.

Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.

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

What makes a fulfilling relationship or fulfilling life is not simply found in another. It's found in a group of others.

The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.

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.

'96 is the year of love. We all need to pull together.

A relationship with young people is very important to me. It's important to have a sense of what's going on in their world and not just in my own. So the opportunity teaching provides is a gift.

You can't build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation.

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

Metaphorically speaking, it's easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.

The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

You cannot heal yourself. You cannot heal anybody else. We're designed to do this in community because we were created inside community for community by community.

If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.

We must build relationships, get to know one another's children, open our arms rather than close our hearts.

I've only ever written about one thing in my life, which is the fact that we, as human beings, have a responsibility to one another and that it's important that we empathize with others, that we organize society so that we all become happier and we all get the life we really want.