Quotes About Community

All the things that are wrong in the world seem conquered by a library's simple unspoken promise: Here I am, please tell me your story; here is my story, please listen.

The library is a gathering pool of narratives and of the people who come to find them. It is where we can glimpse immortality; in the library, we can live forever.

All the things that are wrong in the world seem conquered by a library's simple unspoken promise: Here I am, please tell me your story; here is my story, please listen.

Destroying a library is a kind of terrorism. People think of libraries as the safest and most open places in society. Setting them on fire is like announcing that nothing, and nowhere, is safe.

In times of trouble, libraries are sanctuaries.

Public libraries in the United States outnumber McDonald's; they outnumber retail bookstores two to one.

If you can tell someone is working a room, that person is doing it wrong!

Our power as individuals is multiplied when we gather together as families, teams, and communities with common goals.

I want us all to stop thinking only in terms of accomplishments, of task and completion, of beating the competition, of gathering income and merchandise, of winning praise, and instead, live our lives forging the deepest relationships we can with ourselves and with one another. i want us to respond to adversity by deepening our engagement in our lives. It isn't complicated.

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.

When others witness or comment on abusive behaviors, the little voice that the upscale abused wife once heard inside her and ignored or muffled becomes amplified. Slowly she starts to recognize that she must stop enduring the abuse. . . . each woman comes to grips with her situation at her own pace. However, talking to others is key to her growing capacity to recognize and label her experiences, reclaim herself, target important turning points, and ultimately leave her tormentor.

You're never alone when you're reading a book.

No one had ever told them they might need each other one day, an for some reason, they hadn't figured it out themselves.

It is a great virtue to be needed. Greater, even, than being liked

There is nothing like a grocery list to remind us how human we are.

Parlare con lui m'infondeva una piacevole sensazione di familiarità, come accade con certi personaggi secondari della nostra infanzia: il gestore del negozio di fumetti, il venditore di caramelle... nonostante il tempo trascorso questi individui sono incapaci di considerarci come gli strani adulti che siamo diventati, e continuano invece a guardarci come i bambini che non abbiamo mai smesso di essere.

Latinos care about education, yes, so we need reform, not just money.

It's so good to have friends from home, don't you think so?" "I haven't lived there for a very long time." "It's your roots that count." "Plants and trees have roots. People have legs. »

Everyone there seemed to need an audience to be a version of themselves they were happy with,

In this time of , music is vital.

I believe we all belong to a larger thing. If you wish, you can call it God, but God is different from religion.

when people suffer terrible losses they need to have an opportunity to talk about them. Being isolated with your sorrow is such a lonely place to be.

I see the wise woman. And she sees me.

Childbirth is an experience in a woman's life that holds the power to transform her forever. Passing through these powerful gates - in her own way - remembering all the generations of women who walk with her.... She is never alone.