Relational Value Quotes

I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy.

Everyone you know and all the people you meet have the potential to be someone important in the lives of others.

If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.

We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.

History is only a value of relation.

I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.

A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.

You're not really necessarily the coolest guy in their life. You are a conduit to the really cool people.

Our greatest heart-treasure is a knowledge that there is in creation an individual to whom our existence is necessary - some one who is part of our life as we are part of theirs, some one in whose life we feel assured our death would leave a gap for a day or two.

Alone-sex didn't count. It's like the difference between thinking to yourself or having a good conversation with someone--the pleasure is in the exchange.

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.