Quotes About Community

Applause is a constant thing in AA. It's how we buy drinks for each other.

I came to think that maybe God was what you believed in because you needed to feel you weren't alone.

You can never replace it. The good news is you do learn to live without it. You miss it. You want it. You hang out with a bunch of other crazy people who feel the same way and you live with it. And eventually, you start to sound like a cloying self-help book, like me.

Applause is a constant thing in AA. It's how we buy drinks for each other.

Stars should not be seen alone. That's why there are so many. Two people should stand together and look at them. One person alone will surely miss the good ones.

A big, friendly-looking man approaches me. "Hey, I'm Bobby," he says with a thick Baltimore accent, "… and I'm an alcoholic.

The theater itself is not revolutionary: it is a rehearsal for the revolution. ~ Augusto Boal

Theatre is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society. Theatre can help us build our future, rather than just waiting for it. ~

If you're feeling helpless, help someone.

If you're feeling helpless, help someone. " ? Aung San Suu Kyi (from Freedom from Fear)

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Im waiting, for what, my kind of people, what kind is that, i can tell my kind of people by their faces, by something in their faces.

Listen, here's something we can do: we can look at the moon, sometimes - and, you know, it's the same moon everywhere - and we would be looking at the same thing together that way, you see?

We are nothing mankind is all

We are one in all and all in one. There are no men but only the great WE, One, indivisible and forever.

We are one in all and all in one.      There are no men but only the great WE,      One, indivisible and forever.—

You can't have your cake and let your neighbour eat it too.

The laws say that none among men may be alone, ever and at any time, for this is the great transgression and the root of all evil.

Shared joy is increased; Shared pain is lessened.

Callahan's Law: Shared pain is lessened; Shared joy is increased.

It's a rare hurt that can stand under the advice, help, and sympathy generated by upwards of thirty people that care. Callahan loses a lot of his regulars. After they've been coming around long enough, they find they don't need to drink any more.

Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased—thus do we refute entropy. Stated another way: Just as there are Laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed. But one can be converted into the other.

shared joy is multiplied, shared grief is diminished

Shared pain is lessened. Shared joy is increased.