Quotes About Community

Es gibt viele Arten von Einsamkeit, aber Momo erlebte eine, die wohl nur wenige Menschen kennengelernt haben, und die wenigsten mit solcher Gewalt.

there are certain treasures that kill you if you can't share them with others.

With them the individual counted for nothing. No one was irreplaceable, because they drew no distinction between one man and another... In this community there was harmony, but no love.

Hay riquezas que lo matan a uno si no puede compartirlas.

Hay riquezas que matan a uno sí no puede compartirlas

Ba?kalar?yla payla??lmayan zenginlikler insan? mahvediyordu.

The most important thing you can do is to make sure you build a loving, informed, and loyal team around you. That includes family. That includes friends. And that surely includes a community of trusted experts—everyone from doctors to financial advisers. Why? Because the best decision-making is not just about what you feel in your gut or even read in this book. It's about triangulating several opinions and insights from people who love you—and who may know more than you do.

May those of us with a shared vision of where we need to go and how to get there find each other and provide part of the structure around which the whole can reorganize itself.

Life is not about hoarding wealth but about spreading it around. God can act to see to it that the creation is nourished, but he uses us humans to see to it that our fellow humans have their needs met. We live in a world where the poor are daily reminders that we too have an obligation to meet, not only to ourselves but also to one another. In order to do this we, like Jesus, need to eschew three things: comfort, safety and security.

How then do we know Jesus?  We know Him in worship together, in study together, in reflection together and in reasoning together.

A missional church does not exist in order to grow. Growth may occur but that is not the goal of ecclesial existence. Service, as proclaimers and doers/disciples of The Word, is the purpose of our being called together.

Sacrifice is repeating the event that has saved the community from its own violence, which is killing a victim.

Because we remain a land of hope and opportunity, and new Canadians see in our unfinished destiny an image of their own unfinished destines.

To belong is to understand the tacit codes of the people you live with; it is to know that you will be understood without having to explain yourself.

And so, in the end, the question of markets is really a question about how we want to live together. Do we want a society where everything is up for sale? Or are there certain moral and civic goods that markets do not honor and money cannot buy?

The more we regard our success as our own doing, the less responsibility we feel for those who fall behind.

the conception of] art as potentially something other than an object made for a pedestal or a wall and passively contemplated. It might be a collective enterprise, a happening. Everyone, and anyone, might participate in making a work of art.

Chico Mendes definiu com as seguintes palavras as bases desta aliança: Nunca mais um companheiro nosso vai derramar o sangue do outro; juntos nós podemos proteger a natureza, que é o lugar onde nossa gente aprendeu a viver, a criar os filhos e a desenvolver suas capacidades, dentro de um pensamento harmonioso com a natureza, com o meio ambiente e com os seres que habitam aqui.

the message being sent out by a broken window-the perception it invites-is that the owener of this building and the people of the community around it don't care if this window is broken: They have given up, and anarchy reigns here. Do as you will, because nobody cares.

I lived here my whole life and I've never been to this neighborhood.' And Big Mike finally spoke up. 'Don't worry,' he said. 'I got your back.

National Sarcasm Society: Like We Need Your Support.

There's a real idealism that you have to indulge to think that people in New Orleans were now going to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. There were no bootstraps.

In a thousand subtle and unsubtle ways they were reinventing the experience of living on board a boat.

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