Quotes About Community

My life is bigger than basketball.

So, the ant way of life is very ancient and very successful. As far as human beings are concerned, we've been around for only one million years--too soon be sure.

We want the same effect as if someone's house burned here. We want to give them a normal life as soon as possible.

It seems like a necessary balance to life, being part of the community.

Doubtless, the life of an Irregular is hard; but the interests of the Greater Number require that it shall be hard.

The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live.

The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.

Absent opens a door to a view of Iraqi life we have seldom seen. With a compassionate eye Khedairi explores a community, damaged by wars and sanctions, struggling for survival.

I cannot overstate the power of libraries in my life.

I spent the last week of Ryan's life in Indiana, Indianapolis, with Jeanne and Andrea, Jeanne, his mother, Andrea, his sister, and some other beautiful people who came. And it taught me a lesson.

I will be a role model for cancer patients for the rest of my life. But you know what? When I was getting chemo, those people inspired me.

Where unity and self-sacrifice are indispensable for the normal functioning of society, everyday life is likely to be either religiofied (common tasks turned into holy causes) or militarized.

I grew up at 'All My Children;' I got married, had a daughter and made life-long friends there!

The main thing is to be philanthropic in your everyday life. You don't have to have money to do that. You can do it with your time and your energy.

There was no private property in the past. Everything was communal property. In the Indian community where I was born, everything belonged to the community. This way of life is more equitable.

When you get to a certain age, you don't get lost. If you have a good set of pals around about you can have a great life.

Food has always been at the center of community bonding, of family life, and simple pleasure, but it is becoming more and more an obsession, a source of pain.

Approach life knowing there will be plenty to go around. Be generous.

Globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums.

Take out two pieces of paper. One piece of paper, list all the people you know who are adding to your life.

If your're not having a very good time with your life, its because you haven't done much for others. You may have done many things but you havent done much for those around you.

The idea of the walls of monastery was to keep everybody else out because you wanted to develop a certain type of life. Most people in the world had different ideas on the subject.

I seemed to be leading a very incongruous life from the point of view of the definition of the community I was in.

The rhythm of life is give and take. It is necessary to put things back into the system. To not do that is to foul your own nest - to use up all the natural resources greedily.