Quotes About Community

Thomas Sweeney, The Harem

life's better with girls. boys need girls.

The worth of a society is genuine if established on cardinal law of kingdom–love

Every man is capable of doing good to another, but to contribute to the happiness of an entire society is to become akin to the gods

Humans are one, not divided, but multiplied into many.

I love connecting with people who have been through the fire and come out stronger and wiser. Using their experiences to inspire and empower others. Those are my people.

Learn from the ants- how a tiny heart is big enough to love, help and care about another living existence.

Learn to live together with other people

People talk and people listen, but very few care enough to help.

You don't have to say everything to be a light. Sometimes a fire built on a hill will bring interested people to your campfire.

It doesn't matter how many friends you have on Facebook or twitter, if you have no real friends means you have nothing in your life.

If all else fails, we then factor (fall) into our equation. And pray hard, someone factors (catching us) into theirs.

I remembered learning from my favorite professor at Belmont to "surround yourself with people who are better than you, " and I was now living that mantra.

Be aware of people who are standing in your circle who don't smile when you win.

Remember that churches would be empty ruins without the sinners who transform them into places of life, love and worship.

You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.

And be aware that people fall under one of two categories: they are either your brother and sister in faith, or they are your counterpart in humanity.

He was probably the only number one son in Kahana putting up such a fight, but you couldn't tell because every family was a walled city, and you never knew unless you were inside. And if you were on the inside, you never talked stink about the family, but kept up the family's face.

One might think that living in an all-female society would have prepared me for this eventuality. But the opposite was true. No one ever discussed intimate matters. I didn't have the faintest idea of what was happening to me.

Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.

That excitement of being in a space with other people all experiencing the same moment, that is the magic of theatre.

Tina nods sagely and says yes and then something in Plautdietsch, probably something like heck yeah do we ever know what sad is. Sadness is what holds our bones in place.

Wild was the worst thing you could become in a community rigged for compliance.

Between 2005-2009, more than 300 girls and women of Molotschna were made unconscious and attacked in their own beds. On average, an attack occurred every three or four days. Finally, Leisl Neustandter forced herself to stay awake night after night until she caught a young man prying open her bedroom window, holding a jug of belladonna spray in one hand. Leisl and her adult daughter wrestled the man to the ground and tied him up with baler twine.