Quotes About Community

Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

Non nobis solum. OR non nobis solum nati sumus ortusque nostri partem patria vindicat, partem amici (Not for us alone are we born; our country, our friends, have a share in us)

He must protect the lives and interests of the people, appeal to his fellow citizens' patriotic interests, and, in general, set the welfare of the community above his own

The world would be a better place if everyone just helped one another out when they needed it, in my opinion.

Stay home and the crooks win. They get the night, by default and concession, the night which should rightly belong to all of us.

It is not 'strength' to try to take everything upon oneself.

You don't belong only to yourself, you know. I doubt there is a single person in this world that belongs only to himself. When someone makes a connection...there is always something shared. And so people will never be completely free. It's that which brings out the fun...and sadness...and love.

This city will have no unhappy people. It's the special city that has the someone just for me.

You are never completely on your own, no one on this earth is. Everyone is tied, and shares connections with others. That is why humans can never be completely free. It is the reason that humans feel joy and sorrow.

One may be outside the church, but one can never be outside of God's love.

More than churches full of people, God wants (and the world needs) people full of the Spirit. Let

Reno was somebody from the streets. I think he took to me because he saw me as somebody from the streets, somebody who hated to see the sun go down on Eighth Avenue, who would run up on Amsterdam Avenue, follow the sun down the hill, across Broadway, to the Drive and the Hudson River, and then would wait for the sun to come back. I guess Reno thought he'd found somebody who was destined to be in the streets of Harlem for the rest of his life.

if our ward and stake leaders were to focus on leading their members to share the gospel, many of the other problems that fester in our hearts and homes, and in our wards and stakes, would resolve themselves through the blessings that come from accepting the call that God has given each of us to be missionaries.

Instead of shutting ourselves off in fear, becoming victims—part of the problem—we became a solution.

That was how it started, Enoch thought, almost a hundred years ago. The campfire fantasy had turned into fact and the Earth now was on galactic charts, a way station for many different peoples traveling star to star. Strangers once, but now there were no strangers. There were no such things as strangers. In whatever form, with whatever purpose, all of them were people.

Until the last man threw away his weapon (any sort of weapon), the tribe of Man could not be at peace.

A man, he told himself, must belong to something, must have some loyalty and some identity.

If some of the nations would only take a lesson from some small neighborhood like ours—a lesson in how to get along—the world would be a whole lot better.

Neighborliness means you give up your right to live your life the way you want to live it.

A man, he told himself, must belong to something, must have some loyalty and some identity. The galaxy was too big a place for any being to stand naked and alone.

Worrying about what 'people are going to say' and 'what the neighbours might think' is always in the minds of working people. They aren't afraid of failure. They are afraid of success and how they would have to make excuses to their friends if it ever came their way.

Midian is where the monsters go.

I've never worked where it was hard to be gay. Besides, being gay is a spectacular irrelevance to getting on with your life.

After all, where can the glorious, the goofy, and the god-like stand shoulder to shoulder?