Quotes About Community

The fabric of our complex society is woven too tightly to permit any part of it to be damaged without damaging the whole.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It's you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

I went to school in Hooks, Texas, where most people can't even read the name stitched over their own pocket.

Pesach without children is like a cantor without a song, like an actor without any lines, or a storyteller without an audience.

move from being selfish to selfless.

These dedicated individuals return to their homes, where the positive effects they've produced in their own lives ripple out to positively affect their families and communities, continuously expanding their vibrational influence of harmony and coherence throughout the world.

Rumors would later abound in the black community that Gates and the LAPD had simply let the initial rioting explode so that, as Bill Parker had suggested twenty-seven years earlier, the white public would later get out and "support a strong police department.

Where could you go in Harrisonville?-this smalltime place haunted by by homilies, platitudes, and booshwah.

5º MANDAMIENTO: ENTRENAR EN GRUPO POCAS VECES

This world was no place for anyone with access to another.

Don't waste any time mourning—organize!

I've always thought that when something really bad happens to a person, other people just have to know about it. You can't be a tree falling in the woods with no one to hear you crash.

Don't waste time mourning. Organize

Prison didn't frighten him especially. He had a lot of fans in there.

To live for others was to live fully; to live only for yourself, a cold kind of death.

A flock isn't such a bad thing if you belong, but a few hundred starlings will tear an unlucky martin to feathers if it crosses their path.

Give a man a choice between reality and loneliness or fantasy and community, he'll pick having friends every time.

It's easy to dismiss religion as bloody, cruel, and tribal. I've done it myself. But it isn't religion that's wired that way—it's man himself. At bottom every faith is a form of instruction in common decency. Different textbooks in the same class. Don't they all teach that to do for others feels better than to do for yourself? That someone else's happiness need not mean less happiness for you?

The best time to see her is when the place is almost full.

Eu acho isso a parte mais linda de todas. Tudo aquilo que você acha que te define é removido feito um embrulho de Natal. O Brilho te reduz à sua parte mais verdadeira, à sua melhor parte, à versão de você que vai mais fundo do que um nome ou do que o time de futebol para o qual você torce. E você adquire consciência de si mesmo como apenas uma folha numa árvore, e todos aqueles que você conhece e ama são as outras folhas.

So much kindness," Renée said. "So many people looking after us. They don't know a thing about us except we're in need. I read a Cormac McCarthy novel once, about the end of the world. People hunting dogs and each other and frying up babies, and it was awful. But we need kindness like we need to eat. It satisfies something in us we can't do without.