Quotes About Community

Mother Theresa once said that what hurt people more than poverty or illness was feeling that they weren't needed.

Pubs were one of the things Dougless liked best about England, as they were family oriented, but you could still have a drink.

Sometimes women's "support" lacked understanding—or variety.

I've set the vast majority of my books in New England because that's where I live. I love this part of the country the gentle hills, the lush forests, the cycles of the seasons, the ocean, the quiet lakes and rivers that spread across the region. And, then of course, there's that Yankee spirit, which is a combination of optimism and responsibility, rugged individualism and a strong sense of community. I consider myself and my characters very lucky to live in New England.

Judith Arnold

Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something.

Whether or not we continue to enforce a universal conception of human rights at moments of outrage and incomprehension, precisely when we think that others have taken themselves out of the human community as we know it, is a test of our very humanity.

Social neuroscientists now believe that the need to belong trumps the need for safety.

People I had never seen before flocked in, their faces showing a longing you never saw for cake. People's eyes lit up for a cupcake, cake seemed to signal celebration. But their eyes got filmy, watery, misty when we handed them a slice of pie. Pie was memory. Nostalgia. Pie made people recall simpler, maybe happier times.

third cups of coffee, sitting around the kitchen table,

We'll come back," said Papa. "I know," said Anna... "But it won't be the same - we won't belong. Do you think we'll ever really belong anywhere?" "I suppose not," said Papa. "Not the way people belong who have lived in one place all their lives. But we'll belong a little in lots of places, and I think that may be just as good.

Do you think we'll ever really belong anywhere?" "I suppose not," said Papa. "Not the way people belong who have lived in one place all their lives. But we'll belong a little in lots of places, and I think that may be just as good.

To hold traumatic reality in consciousness requires a social context that affirms and protects the victim and that joins the victim and witness in a common alliance. For the individual victim, this social context is created by relationships with friends, lovers, and family. For the larger society, the social context is created by political movements that give voice to the disempowered.

The fundamental stages of recovery are establishing safety, reconstructing the trauma story, and restoring the connection between survivors and their community

In the face of common prejudices that blame survivors for whatever happened to them, they want assurances from the community that they did not deserve to be abused.

the suffering of traumatized people is a matter not only of individual psychology but also, always, of social justice.

Some extraordinary survivors, recognizing that their suffering is part of a much larger social problem, are able to transform the meaning of their trauma by making their stories a gift to others and by joining with others to seek a better world.

Recovery can take place only within then context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation.

There is nothing to bring people together like a common grievance accompanied by refreshments.

It reminds her of those dreadful sorts who used to go around announcing "I'm a people person," as though one had another choice. She

worked with Sister Barbara in the Küche.

having money and being rich are two different things. Being rich means we have peace and love and friends who help when we're in need.

the concept of communal property was a reminder of the early church, when believers cared for one another as they shared not only their belief in Christ but also their worldly belongings. To

How strange to realize that she'd come on the Herald of Hope chapel car thinking she could bring hope to the people of Finch. Her heart swelled with the knowledge she now embraced. Only God could truly bring the hope these people needed - the hope she needed. He was the hope that anchored their souls. And He was the anchor that would hold the two of them, their children, and their children's children fast to Him.