Quotes About Community

Angela Rizzoli's worst fear was that someone, someday, would leave her house hungry.

Mama does not like to make too many waves in the ocean. She told us it is important to be good to one another, especially now. She said the time has come when we must each lean on the other, so it is important to have patience.

My aunts did not share in the housework, but they contributed greatly to all of the village gossip. They had fake faces, showing Mama kindness and calling her ate, "big sister," but once they were alone, I heard the snide remarks they shot like an arrow in her direction. They had no shame. On that day of our deepest sorrow, the two of them snorted, elbowing each other while Mama writhed in agony on the floor

When you speak, allow the insight of our collective humanity to speak through you. When you walk, don't walk for yourself alone; walk for your ancestors and your community. When you breathe, allow the larger world to breathe for you.

it's nice if everyone sits down together to enjoy three sounds of the bell, nine times of breathing in and out. People practicing breathing with a small bell in this way are able to enjoy much peace and harmony together. That is what I call true civilization. You don't need a lot of modern gadgets in order to be civilized. You need only a small bell, a quiet space, and your mindful in-breath and out-breath.

You are capable of coming back to your best and highest self, but you must maintain this practice. Don't allow yourself to get distracted and forget to practice. Practice regularly, daily, with the support of your family, friends, and community—this is diligence.

MEDITATION is not to get out of society, to escape from society, but to prepare for a reentry into society

We are related to each other. By taking care of you, I take care of myself. By taking care of myself, I take care of you. Happiness and safety are not individual matters.

Developing an outward mindset is a matter of learning to see beyond ourselves. Our hope for you, the reader, is that this book will make such mindset change completely tangible to you and that you will achieve the results at work and at home that only an outward mindset can bring.

the biggest lever for change is not a change in self-belief but a fundamental change in the way one sees and regards one's connections with and obligations to others.

The biggest lever for change is not a change merely in self-belief but a fundamental change in the way people see and regard their connections and obligations to others.

If there is one truism about life, surely it is that we are inextricably and inescapably together.

Given that no one is born into this world without others, that one's ability to think requires language learned from others, and that one's cognitive and emotional experiences are shaped by thoughts and feelings about others, thinkers began to argue that individualistic approaches miss the mark. What is fundamental is not an isolated self but rather a kind of brute fact that just is—the reality of being in the world with others. Who we are is who we are with others.

We can be connected to others as with people or connected to others as with objects, but we are always connected. Separation is an abstraction. Together is our reality.

With Buber's observations in mind, we can see that both of these leaders are connected with others rather than split from them. It's just that one of them—the Isolated leader—is together with others as with objects, while the Together Leader is together with others as with people.

If I have an outward mindset, knowing that the organization's success depends on my colleague's success as well as my own, I will feel an obligation to help my colleague succeed.

We are all surrounded by other autonomous people who don't always behave as we'd like.

You have single men, moving from parish to parish, with no family of their own. It was a formula for disaster." Like

Your sense of yourself will go from being a member of your family to being a member of your community or network of friends to being a member of the world and finally to being a member of the Greater Community. What a tremendous expansion this is and what a greater vantage point in life this will give you. How far you will be able to see then. How much you will be able to know. And how great will be your assistance to others who seek to learn and to know.

Man ist nicht bloß ein einzelner Mensch, man gehört einem Ganzen an, und auf das Ganze haben wir beständig Rücksicht zu nehmen, wir sind durchaus abhängig von ihm. (S.199)

Whole branches of Judaism may wither and fall, but the trunk remains

To those who no longer have a homeland, writing becomes home

DIANA: Mary's right. Give me London any day. It may smell of sewage, but it's our sewage.

Should she stay? This was her house, after all. No, it was their house too. Let Beatrice stay—she did not have to be responsible for everything. Mary felt a sense of relief. There were others to share the responsibility now.