Quotes About Community

It was the worst kind of silence, but a good kind of closeness. These weren't her folk, but...they were, and maybe that meant that anyone could be anyone's, which was a sort of nice thing to think, with the world falling apart.

Guests aren't trouble[...]they're a blessing. Having no one to cook for, now, that's a sadness.

I am a link in a chain

After the week she'd had, she wanted to go to the cafe and sink into a couch, gossip and laugh and sketch and drink tea and make up for lost normal.

Pedir ayuda no implica debilidad.

These weren't her folk, but . . . they were, and maybe that meant that anyone could be anyone's, which was a sort of nice thing to think, with the world falling apart.

We all got a role to play in these kids' lives,

Mi taku oyasin. (We are all related.)

Aku bahkan tak percaya konsep pahlawan resmi, sebab pahlawan hadir dalam kehidupan sehari-hari, pada mereka yang berkorban dan yang bertahan memikul beban.

Families and neighbors started to avoid, rebuke, or repel each other, just because they didn't share the same political beliefs or choose the same party.

Sementara aku diam-diam semakin yakin makanan Aceh yang benar-benar enak mungkin hanya didapatkan di rumah orang Aceh, bukan di rumah makan

Tamu tak pernah tak dijamu di rumah orang Aceh. Dan bukan sekedar makanan kecil, tapi makanan lengkap. Nasi dan lauk-pauk.

One can always benefit from the culinary knowledge of others.

Opposing forces close rank, black versus white, Republican versus Democrat, plantation riverbed people versus hill people.

We need education, not bullets. That the only way we win. Not all these white men bad. We got to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks. That the only way progress last.

When you're among peaceful, generous, happy people, you're inclined to feel happy and peaceful yourself. When you're among angry, aggressive people, you tend to become like them. The human mind is like a mirror. A mirror does not discriminate but simply reflects whatever's before it, no matter whether it's horrible or wonderful.

Many people, even in this country, have material problems because they are concerned for only themselves. Even though society offers many good situations, they are still in the preta realm. I think so, isn't it? You are living in America but you're still living in the preta realm—of the three lower realms, the hungry ghost realm; you are still living in the hungry ghost realm.

Our family is evidently our second self, more than self, existing before self, and surviving self with the better part of self. It is the image of the holy and loving unity of beings revealed by the small group of creatures who hold to one another, and made visible by feeling!

He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

Are there no solitudes out of the cave and the desert; or cannot the heart in the midst of crowds feel frightfully alone?

Sometimes, no matter how screwed up things seem, I feel like we're all at a wedding. But you can't just come out and say, We're at a wedding! Have some cake! You need to create a world into which we can enter, a world where we can see this.

It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back.

Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.

We'll have the Jesusiest time ever!