Quotes About Community

Tilling the ground of our own minds through meditation is how we begin to create a community garden. In doing so we are helping to create a new culture, a culture that can thrive in the modern world and can at the same time support our human journey in an uplifted and joyous way. Such a culture is called enlightened society. Enlightened society is where the flower and the rock will meet.

when you give.. it grows and grows.

Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

I often find myself grateful for the comfort of strangers; a man who gave up his seat for me on the bus, a woman who helped me out with a heavy shopping bag. Remembering small acts of kindness puts the world in a finer, sweeter order.

I believe, completely, that life is about connection; that nothing else truly matters.

All people need a place where their roots can grow deep and they always feel like they belong and have a loving refuge. And all people need a place that gives wings to their dreams, nurturing possibilities of who they might become.

When someone once asked me just what it was that my parents did that made me believe in God, without even thinking I said, "I think it was French toast on Saturday mornings and coffee and Celtic music and discussions and candlelight in the evenings . . ." Because in those moments I tasted and saw the goodness of God in a way I couldn't ignore.

How we need more "homemakers" so that all who live in this transient, contemporary world might have a place to belong, to feel loved and valued, to serve and be served, to give and receive and celebrate all that is good. So

In our hurry-up, multiple-option, online society, we can always leave someone or something we find difficult—a person, a place, a church, a friendship. There is always another option. But real community, long-term friendship, and marriage are precious gifts only to be kept by a commitment to remain in the circle of love they create.

Look for other women with whom you can connect as well. So many women are isolated—with no friends as neighbors, no family close by, no kindred spirits.

You are capable of more than you know. You are the right one to handle your life. And what is more, you are never alone in the journey. You have your Girls' Club around you, and more fundamentally than that, you have God. I think you have it in you to go a little bit farther.

We are hungry for the sustenance of sturdy, deep friendships, but we are fed an idea of friendship that is neither nourishing nor satisfying. Friendship can and must be so much more.

I didn't think I was the only one who loved my children but struggled with isolation and boredom in the sometimes overwhelming details of daily life. I believed that, among like-minded women, there was a need for community as we strived to raise godly children without many people to teach us or to share our burden.

He who walks with wise men will be wise, But the companion of fools will suffer harm. PROVERBS 13:20

Deep friendships are often so very hard to find because this is the fallen place.

We were meant, in other words, to continue the work of the God whose image we bore, a God who had just completed a cycle of rich, generous, lavish creation. We were meant to be fruitful, existing within the bond of family, connected to community, united in our care for the gift of the earth.

Sally Goldenbaum

Sally Goldenbaum

Sally Goldenbaum

People don't want to connect with brands. They want to connect with each other. Fascinating companies create more opportunities for people to connect with each other, through the brand.

People identify with fascinating brands: They identify themselves, their opinions, and their community. (As the commercial says, "Are you a Mac, or PC?")

Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975.

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.

The proverbial hospitality of the South may be selectively extended but it is not a myth.