Quotes About Community

He wasn't pleased with himself for appraising the girl in the tank. He thought of her as half-pretty, the sort of girl one would find modeling for art classes in dire community colleges. Putting her cheap panties and her ex-boyfriend's shirt back on to wander around the easels afterward and wondering how grotesque she must really be, to have summoned up the deformities whacked down in merciless charcoal strikes.

No one person can do everything . . . but we can all do something.

a group of refugee boys who had survived the unimaginable, strangers now in an unfamiliar land, playing the game with passion, focus, and grace that seemed, for a brief moment anyway, to nullify the effects of whatever misfortune they had experienced in the past.

I have a dark-skinned pigment and I lease new cars," Chime said. "You can't have dark skin and a new car in Clarkston without harassment.

The vessel through which the Lord Jesus can reveal Himself in this generation is not the individual, but the body of Christ. True, "God hath dealt to each man a measure of faith" (12:3), but alone in isolation man can never fulfill God's purpose. It requires a complete body of Christ to attain to the stature of Christ and to display His glory.

That sense of contributing to a community is never more rewarding than when you discover something that you believe can improve your readers' lives by changing what and how they think.

You are in a partnership with all other human beings, not a contest to be judged better than some and worse than others.

Know that there are people to whom you are connected who are available to help you find the right job, to solve a puzzling issue that seems irreconcilable, to help you back on your feet, and to resolve financial difficulties. Everyone becomes a compatriot rather than a competitor. This is spiritual awareness as I practice it.

Offer a prayer when you hear an ambulance's or police car's siren.

live in ways that encourage cooperation and a spirit of love

Every person you interact with should feel the inner glow that comes from being appreciated, particularly for the ways in which they express their creativity. A core theme, which strengthens the flow of the power of intention, is wanting for others as much as you intend for yourself.

hurtful behavior could be rendered impotent if enough people were willing to live in ways that encourage cooperation and a spirit of love in place of competition and revenge.

collaboration, not competition.

choose to live by cooperating.

serving others and contributing to the health and strength of all.

thinking about the surpluses we can put back into circulation to decrease deficiencies that exist elsewhere in our world.

Look for opportunities to fill the empty spaces in other people's lives

The current antidote for rural despair, he thought, crack cocaine and liquor.

kind hearts and actions will realign our planet:

Self-actualizing people see the unfolding of God in everyone that they meet. They go beyond appearances. They are friendly with anyone and everyone regardless of class

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

I don't think you're aloud to be homeschooled if you don't have a home.

It's that way with people, too. Only with people it's sometimes that the whole is less than the sum of the parts.

I told about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. It's that way with people, too, he said, only with people it's sometimes that the whole is less than the sum of the parts.