Quotes About Community

Surround yourself with people that reflect who you want to be and how you want to feel, energies are contagious.

I have learned that the things that divide us are far less important than those that connect us.

The stories we can tell each other have no beginning and ending. They

Annie watched them all walk together, like sleepwalkers, she thought, jackrabbits trying to outrun them. The two ends of the line pulled in to form a semicircle, a giant net of humanity. *

We are each of us angels with one wing. And we can only fly embracing each other." —Luciano de Crescenzo

He should have remembered that particular joy of small-town life before he moved back. Everywhere a guy turned, he stumbled over hot, steaming piles of history.

he didn't have to carry his pain alone, that the entire town wanted to help. This was a beautiful, comfortable, warm place for him to heal—for Wes to see that life could once more be filled with grace, with beauty. With love.

You did so well today. All of you." "Thanks," Louisa said. "It's really fun. I hope we do it again next year." Not unless Hope found some other sucker to be in charge, she thought again. "I've had lots of fun, too," Olivia said.

Idaho town where he could ride horses

We also need to think all year long about people around us who might need something happy in their world.

The moment I heard your store had been robbed and that the little shits had left such a mess behind, I knew I would be spending the afternoon helping you clean it up." "I

This was the important part of her life, she thought as she headed toward Currant Creek Valley. Her family, her friends, the people she cared about in town.

I still like to write, but I mostly dabble for my own enjoyment. I discovered I'm very happy surrounded by books written by other people—and the readers who love them.

And there went the neighborhood.

no matter how difficult our own journey, sometimes the only thing that can ease our path is to stop for a while and gather strength by lifting someone else's burden.

We are each of us angels with one wing. And we can only fly embracing each other.

The inevitable, tragic corollary of civilization is populace.

Circusleute und Nomaden sind verwandt. Sie schlagen nie tiefe,, langsam wachsende Wurzeln wie eine Eiche, sondern zauberhafte Luftwurzeln, die in jeder Umgebung eine Heimat finden und sich überall ausbreiten können. Und mit einer nur den Nomaden eigenen Leichtigkeit verlassen sie jeden noch so vertrauten ort wieder, als wären sie nie dagewesen. Sicher tragen sie bei jedem Abschied Wunden davon, doch nie sind die tödlich wie bei einer ausgerissenen Eiche.

Society suffers when any of the pillars weakens or strengthens overly relative to the others. Too weak the markets and society becomes unproductive, too weak a democratic community and society tends toward crony capitalism, too weak the state and society turns fearful and apathetic. Conversely, too much market and society becomes inequitable, too much community and society becomes static, and too much state and society becomes authoritarian. A balance is essential!

in a system where relationships are the currency of exchange.

Indeed, as we will see in the book, healthy communities are essential for sustaining vibrant market democracies. This is perhaps why authoritarian movements like fascism and communism try to replace community consciousness with nationalist or proletarian consciousness.

Finally, the people in industrial democracies, engaged in their communities and thereby organized socially and politically, enforce the necessary separation between markets and the state through their democratic voice. They do so because they want sufficient political and economic competition that the economy does not descend into authoritarianism or cronyism.

When the proximate community is dysfunctional, alienated individuals need some other way to channel their need to belong.4 Populist nationalism offers one such appealing vision of a larger purposeful imagined community—whether it is white majoritarianism in Europe and the United States, the Islamic Turkish nationalism of Turkey's Justice and Development Party, or the Hindu nationalism of India's Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.