Quotes About Community

If your environment is like Rat Park—a safe, happy community with lots of healthy bonds and pleasurable things to do—you will not be especially vulnerable to addiction. If your environment is like the rat cages—where you feel alone, powerless and purposeless—you will be.

Addiction," he said, "is a disease of loneliness.

As John was proving how this effect plays out in humans, other scientists were investigating it in other animals. For example, Professor Martha McClintock separated out lab rats. Some were raised in a cage, alone. Others were raised in groups. The isolated rats developed eighty-four times the number of breast cancer tumors as the rats who had a community.

Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself

Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose failings drive me - drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality.

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence—this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

If you inquire what the people are like here,I must answer, "The same as everywhere!"

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

There occurs the beautiful feeling that only humanity together is the true human being, and that the individual can be cheerful and happy only if he has the courage to feel himself in the Whole.

Even people who are entirely strange and indifferent to one another will exchange confidences if they live together for a while, and a certain intimacy is bound to develop.

Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.

God save you, my brethren, with all your -isms and schisms! I am a citizen of the world, and a man of Weimer. I have established myself by culture in this choice society; and if anyone knows a better place, let him go to it.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.

The only joy in this hard life is serving others.

Rent is about a community celebrating life, in the face of death and AIDS, at the turn of the century.

No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone.

Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything about.

Caring for our seniors is perhaps the greatest responsibility we have. Those who walked before us have given so much and made possible the life we all enjoy.

Story is where people go to practice the key skills of human social life.

Give me a Sunday morning, that's full of grace, A simple life and I'll be okay, here in small town U.S.A.

Softball isn't just a game it's away of life.