Quotes About Community

phrase no man is an island means that no one is truly self-sufficient, everyone must rely on the company and comfort of others in order to thrive.

No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a promontory were. As well as if a manor of thine own Or of thine friend's were. Each man's death diminishes me, For I am involved in mankind. Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee.

Give me tender and supple and conformable affections, that as I joy with them that joy, and mourn with them that mourn, so I may fear with them that fear.

I truly believe that if we are to have any voice in the community we need to first love the community. We need to show them that we care.

For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.

We can so easily deceive ourselves, mistaking the presence of physical bodies in a crowd for the existence of spiritual life in a community.

I was born and I live in a small village, where the centre of life is the square, and the small bar/cafe.

I think the American people lose a large part of the joy of life because they do not live for generations in the same place.

Engagement is the good life. What could be more exciting than getting involved in something that you care about and joining with others and seeing something change? What could be more thrilling?

I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.

Keep saying hello to people. They will be the differentiator for you for the rest of your life.

Good ball players make good citizens.

If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.

If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.

Hospitality is the key to new ideas, new friends, new possibilities. What we take into our lives changes us. Without new people and new ideas, we are imprisoned inside ourselves.

Take time to make a difference. Don't just obsess about how you can make your life better. Think about how you can make somebody else's life better as well.

The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons".

Mere physical growing up, mere mastery of the bare necessities of subsistence will not suffice to reproduce the life of the group. Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required.

I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.

The [nonprofit] sector enhances our creativity, enlivens our communities, nurtures individual responsibility, stirs life at the grassroots, and reminds us that we were born free.

My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.

My life goal is to see the world's one billion people with disabilities embraced and encouraged by the church.

Life is special when you reach out beyond yourself to be a true servant leader for others.

Around the world today people are spontaneously spawning a culture dedicated to creating conditions conducive to life.