Kiki Smith Quotes

All I have are the people.

A good life depends on the strength of our relationships with family, friends, neighbours, colleagues and strangers.

One faithful Friend is enough for a man's self, 'tis much to meet with such an one, yet we can't have too many for the sake of others.

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.

We can't expect everybody to be there for us, all at once. So it's a lucky thing that really, all you need is someone.

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.

You can't achieve anything entirely by yourself. There's a support system that is a basic requirement of human existence. To be happy and successful on earth, you just have to have people that you rely on.

I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.

My girlfriend is a great support, and I've got a big circle of mates who keep my feet on the ground.

But you base everything on people you know.

Women friends get me through the bumps in the road.

Friendships have been such an important part of my life both emotionally and logistically.

I have a lot of people in my life who support me.

How many people ask you to come share their life?

Human relationships are primary in all of living. When the gusty winds blow and shake our lives, if we know that people care about us, we may bend with the wind ... but we won’t break.

I am very much a people person. If I am in a beautiful place but I don't like the people, I am miserable.

I've been lucky enough to be surrounded by close friends and family and they've definitely kept me grounded.

One of the things that you see ancient philosophers and contemporary scientists agree on is that strong relationships are a key to happiness, maybe the key to happiness. People who have more strong relationships in their lives just feel happier.

You can't live entirely alone. You have to have some kind of a support system.

There is no life without friendship

I like people, for a little while.

There are four people in my life, not counting my reps who know everything, two of whom are my parents, that know everything, so that when I feel like I need to let it out, I can talk to any of those four people.

No one can live without friendship, because what would you do all day without friends?

We all say in our own lives that money isn't everything. Love matters, friendships matter. My relationship with my kids matters. It shouldn't be a giant leap to take that thought and introduce it into political dialogue

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.