Gretchen Rubin Quotes

Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

Our friendships are really the epicenter of our social world and emotional lives.

Everybody understands companionship, wants it, gets it, no matter what it looks like.

By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier.

I don't want to be alone my whole life. It is much more fun to share what you have than to have it to yourself. And it isn't like I don't have love in my life. I have a lot of friends who love me and who I love.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.

You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

I think most people would struggle to define their whole relationship with just one label - like: my girlfriend, boyfriend, brother, sister, confidantes, whatever - but in those moments, there's true joy in each other.

I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in their friends. It does give some depth and meaning to their lives.

I think the most important thing in life is relationships. I think that feeds us almost like food.

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

People are really happier with friends than they are with their families or their spouse or their child.

I'd like to get back to my family and friends - believe it or not, I do have some real friends.

I think one needs a companion at some point in life.

I do have many close girlfriends; these relationships are paramount in my life.

In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

Life is nothing without friendship.

How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people.... Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.

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