Quotes About Community

Manuals of wisdom literature were taught to children and contained all the essentials for being a valued member of the community, including ethics and manners. This idea of virtuous behaviour equated to 'upholding Ma'at', and everyone in society, from the lowest peasant to the Pharaoh to the gods needed to uphold Ma'at to preserve order and harmony, and prevent chaos.

Compare your griefs with other men's and they will seem less

Three helping one another will do as much as six men singly

It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.

God does watch over us and does notice us, but it usually through someone else that he meets our needs.

No father, no son, no mother, no daughter should get so busy that he or she does not have time to study the scriptures and the words of modern prophets. None of us should get so busy that we crowd out contemplation and praying. None of us should become so busy in our formal Church assignments that there is no room left for quiet Christian service to our neighbors.

We must eliminate the individual tendency to selfishness that snares the soul, shrinks the heart, and darkens the mind.

God does notice us, and he watches over us. But it is usually through another person that he meets our needs. Therefore, it is vital that we serve each other in the kingdom.

In the Church, we can give expression to every ability, every righteous desire, every thoughtful impulse. Whether a volunteer, father, home teacher, bishop, or neighbor, whether a visiting teacher, mother, homemaker, or friend—there is ample opportunity to give our all. And as we give, we find that 'sacrifice brings forth the blessings of heaven!' (Hymns, no. 147) And in the end, we learn it was no sacrifice at all.

There may be some who would disregard [the family] and ignore the important things, yet we feel that almost everyone who stops to think of this and weigh it will conclude that when the home is destroyed, the nation goes to pieces. There can be no question about this, and all historians or those who have followed a historical line of thought have come to that same conclusion

Shared pain is lessened. Shared joy is increased. Thus we refute entropy.

Shared sorrow is lessened, shared joy is increased

Shared pain is lessened Shared joy is increased Thus do we refute entropy

The more you meditate, the more you pay attention. The more you pay attention, the more you see the world as it truly is. Everyone is a teacher. Everyone is part of your Sangha.

Your Sangha is out there. It might not take the form of a Buddhist community. That's okay. Find your people, who you trust, with whom you feel safe. I don't just mean safe on the surface. But safe in a way that when they come to you with observations they make about things you are unwittingly doing to hurt yourself, you will be able to listen deeply—not shrink away in defense— learn from them, and ultimately alleviate your suffering.

We'll take care for each other, and we'll all sleep together in a real pile.

I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody.

If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.

The youngest member of this ageing community was ex-variety artiste, Patrick L. Balls. Fifty-nine now, he spent out his remaining years pulling a rope lift and bottling fruit. He had once whistled Ave Maria for Queen Victoria. She wasn't present at the time, but nevertheless that's who he was whistling it for.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.

I've been in many of them [ghetto areas] and to some extent I would have to say this: If you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.

To some extent, if you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.

My friends, your people have both intellect and heart; you use these to consider in what way you can do the best to live.