Quotes About Community

There is no better exercise for strengthening the heart than reaching down and lifting up another.

A happy life is made up of little things . . . a gift sent, a letter written, a call made, a recommendation given, transportation provided, a cake made, a book lent, a check sent.

Joys divided are increased.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human race.

Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.

Birds of a feather flock together.

A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cordially.

London is a roost, for every bird.

No man is an Island intire of it self; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankinde, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowhip with other human beings as we take our place among them.

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him.

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.

When a blind man carries the lame man, both go forward.

Nobody does nothing for nobody for naught.

I arose a mother in Israel.

We can live without our friends but not without our neighbors.

When your neighbor's house is afire your own property is at stake.

A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.

There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on, one doesn't die, and the only thing that one can do is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace, but it brings the dawn nearer.

This gathering is what I call "intimate," which really means "Where is everybody?"

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones come daily.

To look up and not down, To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.