But the experience that I had, which was basically just feeling loved and taken care of in a room full of thousands of people I didn't know, seemed to be a pretty strong sign that what I was doing was a good thing.
Technology is best when it brings people together.
The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth.
A smile costs nothing in money, time, or effort but it is literally true that it can be of supreme importance in ones life.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
God designed humans to live in community.
Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.
The exercise of democracy begins as exercise, as walking around, becoming familiar with the streets, comfortable with strangers, able to imagine your own body as powerful and expressive rather than a pawn.
being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.
A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
In the early days of Twitter, it was like a place of radical de-shaming. People would admit shameful secrets about themselves, and other people would say, 'Oh my God, I'm exactly the same.' Voiceless people realized that they had a voice, and it was powerful and eloquent.
A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.
I certainly never imagined 80-year-olds singing along, like they were watching Cats. I'm fascinated by that kind of pop cultural zeitgeist that it's attached itself to.
There's a difference between good chemistry and a bond. Chemistry is something you have with somebody you meet - or you don't. It's an intangible. It may be superficial. It's much harder to put your finger on than a bond.
When I'm bored, I hate being alone so there's always a friend at my place.
Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors
People who get together, regardless of other structures, will find something in common. They are bound to. That was the Pete Seeger let's-all-sing theory.
When I grew up, I lived in a neighborhood that had social clubs. It's never delightful to glamorize one's youth. My neighborhood was poor. But people felt part of the neighborhood. This was in Rockaway Beach, Long Island.
He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him.
These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.
People always tell me that they grew up with me - like I'm their brother or uncle or some other family member. That keeps me going.
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my neighbours.
