bonding with others Quotes

Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.

Through love, through friendship, a heart lives more than one life.

The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

Friendships, along with love, make life worth living.

Belonging. Togetherness. These words are as complicated and confusing as the word love. It’s probably all the same thing. Or it would be if we let it be. I can only guess from observation.

Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives.

To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Perhaps what makes friendship and love exciting is the continuing discovery of another personality.

Friends make life a lot more fun.

The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.

I don't think I ever believed in love, not really. Just though it was something James Bond made up, a long time ago, to get laid.

Friendships offer good practice in accepting the transience of experience and the persistence of feeling.

Togetherness has to do with focused attention. It is giving someone your undivided attention. As humans, we have a fundamental desire to connect with others. We may be in the presence of people all day long, but we do not always feel connected.

That's love. That's all it means. It means sharing joy with people.

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

People deal with me, but they are genuinely fond of Prim. Maybe there will be enough fondness to keep her alive.