Mother Angelica Quotes

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.

Man absolutely cannot live by himself.

You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean before they came here I could stand it... But now it has changed. You can't go back, he thought. You can't go from people to nonpeople." - J.R. Isidore

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Life is lived in common, but not in community.

Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.

There is no one subsists by himself alone.

She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.

No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.

Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.

Not only is there no question of solitude, but in the long run we may not choose our company.

You can't be human alone.

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.

You can be with other people, which is ideal, or you can be alone.

Man is not meant to live alone.

The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.

There's really no honor in proving that you can carry the entire load on your own shoulders. Andit's lonely.

Community is a sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either ignore or fight each other. It is a sign that we don't need a lot of money to be happy--in fact, the opposite.

I cannot live without people. I need to live my life with others.

People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition.

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

More and more of us live segmented, compartmentalized lives. This isn't natural. For millions of years, our forebears knew everyone around them and everyone knew them.

We are all in this together, by ourselves.

We all need each other.