Quotes About Community

Ieder mens heeft geloof ik het gevoel, dat hij er eigenlijk niet bijhoort, bij het leven van de andere mensen. Dat hij op een of andere manier iets anders is, een gast, en hij doet alle mogelijke moeite om te zorgen, dat de anderen dat niet zullen merken. Dat is het gevoel, dat alle mensen gemeen hebben, en daardoor horen ze juist bij elkaar.

I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them.

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own.

No nation on this globe should be more internationally minded than America because it was built by all nations.

Had he said that in Russian, he would have forfeited the goodwill he'd won from the kolkhoz's farmers.

Odds were there'd never been a human being born who couldn't use a drink now and then.

I've run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people's support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.

In South Africa in the early 1990s, a joke was making the rounds: Given the country's daunting challenges, people had two options, one practical and the other miraculous. The practical option was for everyone to pray for a band of angels to come down from heaven and fix things. The miraculous option was for people to talk with one another until they could find a way forward.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by...religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

There is no them and us. There is only us." Harvey Jackins

It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you.

And no business can possibly equate happy workers (community) with profit (effectiveness). Happy workers are much more productive workers and hence contribute to profit, but no organization is formed for the idea of pleasing its employees.

Our company is built on people - those who work for us, and those we do business with.

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.

The man who thinks he can live without others is mistaken; the one who thinks others can't live without him is even more deluded.

Faith is the black person's federal reserve system.

Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.

What kind of good deeds? Like Girl Scouts? Because I got kicked out of Brownies and they won't give me another chance to keep my clothes on at camp.

Decoupage hit Mooreland pretty hard...

I tend to make my joy a private experience and hoard all the fruit for myself, forgetting that the tree doesn't eat its own fruit but presents it to others.

The beauty of the God girl is that she isn't about "me" all the time.

Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about the human family, but with enthralling stories that make us imagine the lives of others. A good story lets you know people as individuals in all their particularity and conflict; and once you see someone as a person—flawed, complex, striving—you've reached beyond stereotype.

All things we possess are taken from others, and others in their turn await with outstretched hands to seize them.

Every institution is affected by the culture in which it lives and especially the culture in which it was born. That includes my church and denomination as well as yours.