Quotes About Community

Few minded what their fellow citizens got up to as long as they themselves were left in peace.

I could hear it from far away, that sound which only very big cities can produce: a sound consisting of all sounds rolled into one: the hum of voices and the cries of animals, bells ringing and the chink of coins, children's laughter and hammers beating metal, knives and forks clattering and a thousand doors slamming - the grandiose sound of life, of birth and death, itself.

Sometimes you might forget who you are and where, but that's okay because there's always somebody around that's happy to remind you.

We are stronger together than we are alone.

This time called life was meant to share.

Y no podemos, porque el fenómeno humano se forja precisamente en la relación con los otros: los demás son el caldo de cultivo donde se cristaliza nuestra identidad. No podemos renunciar al prójimo.

Hasta que tuve veinte años, nunca me preocupó lo que la gente pudiera pensar de mí. A partir de los veinte me preocupaba constantemente lo que pudieran pensar mis vecinos. Pero un día, después de cumplir los cincuenta, de pronto comprendí que ellos difícilmente habían pensado en mí

Participo de la vida social e incluso con el bien común, pero siendo YO. Así, con mayúsculas.

la comunidad te hace un reconocimiento o una felicitación honesta y franca, no los desprecies ni les des a entender que se equivocaron. No digas que no la mereces ¡di gracias y cállate!

El amor de pareja es una comunidad de dos, donde nos asociamos para vivir de acuerdo con unos fines e intereses compartidos.

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

Sea of upturned faces.

Nothing imaginative ever happens to five people at once, because each is up to only one-fifth of his personal intelligence and perception. A crowd is never equal to the intelligence of any one of its members.

the north and south ends, there wasn't much to Bridger's Wells: Arthur Davies' general store, the land and mining claims office, Canby's saloon, the long, sagging Bridger Inn, with its double-decker porch, and the Union Church, square and bare as a New England meeting house, and set out on the west edge of town, as if it wanted to get as far from the other church as it could without being left alone.

Dominican life, hence Dominican prayer, depends on a healthy life of the Chapter.

But behind that there is the truth about us and the truth is that most people come to religious life because they need to.

Everybody heard the gospel in their own language: you have a place.

The polarization is such that the conservatives on this side have their prayer meeting and their choir meeting. And the liberals on this side have their prayer meeting and their choir meeting, and the two sides never get together and talk about it. The result is the tearing apart of the fabric of the body of Christ.

Personal redemption cannot take place apart from the redemption of our social structures.

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together" - African Proverb

Wanda E. Brunstetter

to see what had happened. "Oh no," Elaine gasped. "It looks like a car hit someone's buggy! I hope no one is seriously hurt.

A player who conjugates a verb in the first person singular cannot be part of the squad, he has to conjugate the verb in the first person plural. We. We want to conquer. We are going to conquer. Using the word "I" when you're in a group makes things complicated.

Friendships across the world make near neighbours of far horizons.