Quotes About Community

You keep looking at the sea and you start to miss being with people; you stay around people all the time and you just want to go look at the sea.

The library was like a second home. Or maybe more like a real home, more than the place I lived in. By going every day I got to know all the lady librarians who worked there. They knew my name and always said hi. I was painfully shy, though, and could barely reply.

Civilization is communication," the doctor said. "That which is not expressed doesn't exist.

A person's life may be a lonely thing by nature, but it is not isolated. To that life other lives are linked.

as individuals each of us is extremely isolated, while at the same time we are all linked by a prototypical memory.

Habit, in fact, was what propelled his life forward. Though he no longer believed in a perfect community, nor felt the warmth of chemistry between people.

Everyone lets their hair down here.

we can't survive on our own.

nothing important gets done alone.

Our perceptions are shaped not only by what we can do by ourselves but by what we believe we can do with others' help

There is a kind of wildness that grows up among people who have gathered in the dark, and we all felt a little giddy.

Strangely, there has never been a definitive source of information about Mooreland during a certain fifteen-year period, perhaps because there are so few people left who can reliably tell it.

the church had approximately eleven members, with a collective age of nearly a thousand years.

Jews may have known much suffering, known too the empty feeling of being a people isolated in the world, but a Jew who regularly worshiped with a congregation was never alone.

At no other time in history has it been possible to think that you are a local but to be so lacking the deep knowledge of a place that keeps you safe during rare events. We moderns struggle to grasp this gap in our knowledge for many reasons. For starters, we no longer rely on tight-knit communities or a deep understanding of local terrain like humans did until recently.

You don't have to sing in a choir to see that a group of committed people who care about something that makes life a little brighter, and work hard at it, can accomplish more together than alone, but it helps.

the world could end in any number of ways, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. The only choice any of us has is what to do if we're still here after it happens. Do we die a little death every day ourselves or do we reach for someone's hand and dance again?

The home is the most ritualized place in a society; each house is like a religious order with its own ceremonies.

Whereas the Greeks had Zeus and Athena, we had people who still lived in Verdun. They had a lot to bear on their shoulders. They had to invent the whole world themselves. They were supposed to have supernatural powers and achieve sainthood. When really they just found themselves peering into the mirror above the bathroom sink, looking to see how they were aging. Sitting in the bathtub, smoking a cigarette, terrified of death like the rest of us.

I decided to get my butt up out of the coffin, just like Jesus Christ, and come and chitchat with all my beautiful and soulful friends.

Everything written by any woman was written by all women, because they all benefited from it.

He did tai chi in the park with a group of senior citizens. … It looked like a ship had sunk and these were the passengers, slowly sinking to their grave at the bottom of the ocean.

Eternity will not be nor has it been, it is. Spirit is the we that is I or the I that is we.

We can only make sense of ourselves in relation to someone or something. To be a person, we must be recognized as a person.