Quotes About Community

solid because the bees inside

Being the "best you can be" is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets, not people.

To be human is to need others, and this is no flaw or weakness.

When we love our partner well, we offer a blueprint for a loving relationship to our children and their partners. Better relationships between love partners are not just a personal preference, they are a social good. Better love relationships mean better families. And better, more loving families mean better, more responsive communities.

Senior pastors cannot be those who think they can do everything but are willing to let a few people help them. Rather, they are those who know they can't do everything, don't want to do everything, and are not willing to do everything; they welcome others to come along-side with their gifts in order to form a powerful team for Christ.

One couple described the effects as being, "dated hard, married quick, and then ignored." They got into church alright, but the church never got into them; they were let in easily enough, but they never felt they were counted on.

You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home

We all need to feel understood and connected to ourselves and to others.

To most women, friendship is not a luxury; it is an essential part of their being.

Be with people who truly care for you and are positive, optimistic, and happy.

As a journey begins with one step, so a crowd begins to collect with one person.

It's the ordinary people who will have to learn to accept us.

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Secluded communities of women are a concern. Some unfair and possibly illegal things happen that the government never knows about, because the women don't come out to tell what's going on.

I understand you've chosen to live this way." But Perveen remained concerned about how little contact they had with others—and not even a telephone for emergencies.

Anybody in the world can come to India and find home.

After doing 'Firefly' and moving on, I always wanted to be part of a series again. I love doing films, too, but there's just something special about being part of the team and feeling like you're actually a part of the family, and I always look to re-create that.

The Chinese people have only family and clan solidarity; they do not have national spirit… they are just a heap of loose sand…. Other men are the carving knife and serving dish; we are the fish and the meat.

Because it is psychological. I see the boys in the park, the young boys, smoking and playing basketball when they should be in school. I couldn't understand why when I first arrived. Now, I am starting to see. It is because they have been told in school, in their community, on the street, that they are nothing, and so they have started to believe it. Once that happens, it is over. You can't be a man, a husband, a father. You can't do anything, once you start to believe that.

When I first moved to Minnesota, most folks didn't say they were white. They proclaimed their heritage. Germans, Swedes, Norwegians, French. Strange, I thought. When did they become white? Maybe winter changes people into colors. I waited to see.

I longed for the Confederate flags of the South, because at least the South had clear lines of demarcation and warning. In Minnesota, there were only smiling faces, open classroom doors, and a stinging persistent coldness that let me know that I was in a new, different place that wasn't really welcoming—and that this place was resistant to me calling it home.

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

MILFs rule Bonoboville

In Bonoboville, the females gently but firmly rule the roost, keeping the males gentle and firm