Quotes About Community

Otherness is what constitutes us.

Imparai che la politica non è solo azione ma anche partecipazione. Forse, mi dissi, non si tratta di cambiare gli uomini quanto di accompagnarli, di essere uno di loro

Wealth is good when it brings joy to others.

Nothing can bring the hurt of loneliness upon a man so swiftly as to pass a strange house in the dark and witness, in the lamplight from within, a family breaking evening bread together.

but as he no longer stands on his native soil, his art can't possibly have roots. An artist creates true art for his people only as long as he lives, and suffers, among them.

In the words of William McKinley, Our flag has never waved over any community but in blessing.

But you must sacrifice your individuality,' Guy told her. 'It's nothing but egoism. You must unite with other right-thinking, self-abnegating people – then you can achieve anything.' The idea filled her with gloom.

Jews are always strangers,' Harriet thought

Andate verso gli altri, sempre in compagnia della vostra passione.

Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.

I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them - there's only us.

What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.

Connect. Embrace. Liberate. Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You'll see the difference it makes.

I've always known that life is better when you share it. But I now realize it gets even sweeter when you expand the circle.

Anda tidak harus melakukan hal sempurna yang berkilauan. Anda bisa menjalani hidup dan menembus kesulitan dengan muncul dan berkata, Baiklah, ini sulit dan aku butuh bantuan. Aku membutuhkan kuasa yang lebih tinggi. Dan aku membutuhkan kamu. Glennon Doyle

Ketika hidup sedang memperlakukan Anda dengan baik dan sepertinya Anda tidak bisa salah langkah, selalu akan ada orang-orang yang ingin menumpang di limosin Anda. Tetapi yang benar-benar Anda inginkan adalah orang-orang yang bersedia naik bus bersama Anda ketika limosin sedang mogok.

When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another.

In a city, you can be alone in a crowd, and in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes.

Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we've forgotten but to regulate our relations with others and indeed all of society, and this is how we use them.

WHAT MAKES CITY LIFE MEANINGFUL IS THE THINGS WE HIDE.

We had no desire to live in Istanbul, nor in Paris or New York. Let them have their discos and dollars, their skycrapers and supersonics transports. Let them have their radios and their color TV, hey, we have ours, don't we? But we have something they don't have. Heart. We have heart. Look, look how the light of life seeps into my very heart

We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, team, nation, state, tribe, company, or species. We all know that the ordinary, everyday stories of individuals are riches, more humane, and much more joyful.

It was in Cihangir that i first learned Istanbul was not an anonymous multitude of walled-in lives - a jungle of apartments where no one knew who was dead or who was celebrating what - but an archipelago of neighbourhoods in which everyone knew each other.

My fear was not the fear of God but, as in the case of the whole Turkish secular bourgeoisie, fear of the anger of those who believe in God too zealously(...) I experienced the guilt complex as something personal, originated less from the fear of distancing myself from God than from distancing myself from the sense of community shared by the entire city .