Quotes About Community

Technology is in its proper place when it helps us bond with the real people we have been given to love. It's out of its proper place when we end up bonding with people at a distance, like celebrities, whom we will never meet.

Poverty is the absence of linkages, the absence of connections with others

If you are looking for a single proximate cause of the loneliness that is epidemic in our world, it is the dearth of households.

Human creativity, then, images God's creativity when it emerges from a lively, loving community of persons and, perhaps more important, when it participates in unlocking the full potential of what has gone before and creating possibilities for what will come later.

We are meant not just for thin, virtual connections but for visceral, real connections to one another in this fleeting, temporary, and infinitely beautiful and worthwhile life.

All real change starts with the number of people who can sit around a table in a single household

shared a pot of fresh bee tea.

People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.

but I always say, one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party.

Our town was known for two things--no, three: salted fish, expertly dyed fabrics, and corruption.

Damn. It's still the Midwest around here, no matter how many open-minded people you surround yourself with.

Me and Butchy sit in front of the TV and watch another church fall down in flames. Flames that I can feel sitting a thousand miles away. Flames that I will feel long after the TV is turned off. Flames and the looks on the faces of people watching their churches burn down—burning hot into the night, burning dark when the morning comes up.

Why not a new village of farmers, citizens of the world through schools and radio and space-consuming transportation, grouped together in friendly sociability, building directly upon the soil?

The world owes us nothing; we owe each other the world.

and half of learning to play is learning what not to play and she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to say and she's trying to sing just enough so that the air around her moves and make music like mercy that gives what it is and has nothing to prove she crawls out on a limb and begins to build her home and it's enough just to look around and to know that she's not alone up up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god's work isn't done by god it's done by people

i do it for the joy it brings because i'm a joyful girl because the world owes me nothing and we owe each other the world

God. I couldn't have stood another minute of it. Straight people are so depressing.

I didn't think they liked women in a place like this." Jack guided her to a barstool. "Oh, they're friendly enough. They know you wouldn't be here if you weren't gay. They figure, you leave them alone and they'll leave you alone.

She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.

Lena studied the faces of the girls on the sidelines. She could tell that Kostos owned the lust of what few local teenage girls there were in Oia, but instead he chose to dance with all the grandmothers, all the women who had raised him, who had poured into him the love they couldn't spend on their own absent children and grandchildren.

When you belonged nowhere, you sort of belonged everywhere.

If you are distant and misanthropic, selfish or cruel, you will find yourself alone in life and death.

i don't want to be the only good thing in the world.

Lena remembered herself in all the old familiar things they said. She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.