Dallas Willard Quotes

Relationships with parents, grandparents, friends, and siblings were important to me when I was young and have remained so throughout my life. Our relationships with other people both shape and reflect who we are. These relationships are infinitely fascinating to explore!

We do become our conversations. We really will become our associations.

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

We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.

Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.

We are all a unique person with everyone we meet.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Everybody I interacted with in my life, directly or indirectly, has placed a fingerprint upon my life. That combination has made me who I am.

She liked people. Me, I can take them or leave them, but mostly leave them.

Other people may complicate our lives, but life without them would be unbearably desolate. None of us can be truly human in isolation. The qualities that make us human emerge only in the ways we relate to other people.

How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?

Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.

Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would be.

Life is beautiful not because of the things we see or do. Life is beautiful because of the people we meet.

People have multiple identities.

How happy you are depends to a very large degree on your relationships with other people.

Just as I need other human beings in order to learn from them, so I also need their trust. If we aren't aware of that, if we fail to take it to heart and instead betray other people's trust, things will go badly with us.

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 were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.

Only other people can make you feel real.

On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?

We might not know we are seeking people who best enrich our lives, but somehow on a deep subconscious level we absolutely are. Whether the bond is temporary or permanent, whether it succeeds or fails, fate is simply a configuration of choices that combine with others to shape the relationships that surround us. We cannot choose our family, but we can choose our friends, and we sometimes, before we even meet them.

People are social beings and want interaction and social learning is the primary form of learning, just as word of mouth advertising is the highest form of advertising.

I guess there are a lot of people out there that think they're supposed to define themselves in isolation, but that's not necessarily the case.