Quotes About Community

It doesn't matter how much of an asshole you are, there was always someone who thought you were cool.

Wine me, dine me, Deep Space Nine me.

In that moment he understood it had never been a game. He understood that he was never going to be one of them.

The world doesn't get better on its own. It gets better because people make it better: penny by penny, vote by vote, and one lesson at a time. So: Start where you are. Use what you have. Help who you can.

If you are going to build a community, the first and most important thing you have to decide is what you want: to help people succeed in the world we have, or to give them a way to make a better one. Either way, you have to accept that one person can only do so much. Just as we learn best together, we teach best when we are teaching with other people, and the best way to achieve that is to build a community.

For years, I've proffered the theory that there aren't "people who don't like hockey," but rather people who have yet to let the light of hockey into their hearts. And the best way to bring these heathens to our religion of choice is to get them to one of our frozen temples and watch a game live. But

For years, I've proffered the theory that there aren't "people who don't like hockey," but rather people who have yet to let the light of hockey into their hearts. And the best way to bring these heathens to our religion of choice is to get them to one of our

that there aren't "people who don't like hockey," but rather people who have yet to let the light of hockey into their hearts.

One person must choose a new way of being and live that difference in the presence of others

Thus, it doesn't take many people to anchor a new way of thinking or believing

We live in a world where everything is connected. We can not longer think in terms of us and them when it comes to the consequences of the way we live. Today it's all about WE.

even though we may be physically separated from one another, we can still be in instantaneous communication—and

It is the feeling of being given a place in the world. 11 No Longer the Same Place Evan came to lying flat on his chest, his mouth open against the floorboards.

She had spoken, her words coming in fragments as her voice faded in and out of hoarseness. "You know," she'd said softly to the throng of listeners, "we're more than this." She'd swung an open hand around to indicate the throng of listeners, the bright lights, the police cars. "We're more than just this.

Thank you, honey. I don't mean to be ungrateful, it just seems like there are no real people here. You know what I mean?" Her shoulders dropped. "Not many real people anywhere for us anymore.

I couldn't care less about the community," Jade said. "Atlasia's a megalomaniac. Nothing would be more attractive to him than a big group of people talking about him. Admittedly, it's a long shot—he's on the run and he doesn't have a base yet—but it's worth a try to see if we can lure him in.

when we read the New Testament accounts of baptism, every person identified as having a household present at his or her conversion also had the household baptized.

Kinship– not serving the other, but being one with the other. Jesus was not "a man for others"; he was one with them. There is a world of difference in that.

The strategy of Jesus is not centered in taking the right stand on issues, but rather in standing in the right place—with the outcast and those relegated to the margins.

You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly, and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear.

to say that man is a social animal is also to say that man never lives in a world completely of his own choosing.

In Greenland there is no ownership of land. What you own is your house, your dogs, your sleds and kayaks. Everyone is fed. It is a food-sharing society in which the whole population is kept in mind--the widows, elderly, infirm, and ill are always taken care of. Jens said, "We weren't born to buy and sell, but to be out on the ice with our families.

I don't care to belong to any organization that accepts me as a member.

Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.