Quotes About Community

She closed her eyes, felt a long breath ease out of her, and realized then how much knowledge could weigh until it was shared.

and the bells kept on tolling, tolling as they gathered

Chapter 8 Laura and Almanzo

They were philanthropists, helping out with charitable and cultural causes, but when it came to anything progressive like a new belt-line around Buffalo, or moving toll-barriers, or raising taxes to support a crumbling school system, they drew the lines around what could be done, not what should be done, to protect their insular world of being the best kept secret in the northeast as far as cost of living went.

On the last Saturday of every month, Rwanda goes to work for itself: clearing land, building classrooms, making roads. On these national days of community work, known as umuganda, most shops and businesses are closed. Umuganda is a national priority, and everyone is expected to participate.

But...if it's so awful and difficult who not try to become a group? Be accepted? He glittered at me for a moment, then said, I would rather be mad.

Bad news doesn't hurt as much, if you hear it in good company. It's like, if somebody pushes you out of a 5th floor window and you bounce off an awning, a car roof, and a pile of plastic garbage bags before you smash onto the pavement, you've got a pretty good chance of surviving.

This is what I like, sitting at a table and watching people go by. It does something to your outlook on life. The Anglo-Saxons make a great mistake not staring at people from a sidewalk table.

East, west, home's best.' The words rang in his mind. There wasn't any place like the one where the world had come alive to you, where you knew every stick and stone, every man, woman and child, where you could look around you and know that the men of your blood had had their

You can always tell when a town has gone bad. People gather in little groups, talking in low voices. Their postures are taut and awkward. They have the look of those who have been brushed by brutality and do not know how to cope with it—a look of shame, as if they had somehow caused the violence that frightens them.

Though it had no wide reputation, all manner of people frequented 'The Midnight Bell.' This was in its nature, of course, since it is notorious that all manner of people frequent all manner of public-houses - which in this respect resemble railway stations and mad-houses.

people are growing more socially isolated than they were even twenty years ago:

People want to be listened to and they want people around who will listen.

We found that happy people tend to be located in the center of their social networks and to be located in large clusters of other happy people. And we found that each additional happy friend increases a person's probability of being happy by about 9%.

Publilio Syro, señaló: "Nos interesan los demás cuando se interesan por nosotros".

You may work for or own a company. Company is derived from an old French word meaning companion; and companion is literally com, with, and panis, bread. Your companion is one with whom you have bread. A company is really an association of people who are trying to make their bread together.

El individuo que no se interesa por sus semejantes es quien tiene las mayores dificultades en la vida y causa las mayores heridas a los demás. De esos individuos surgen todos los fracasos humanos.

Forget yourself by becoming interested in others. Every day do a good deed that will put a smile of joy on someone's face.

It thus seems to be the case, online as well as offline, that when you smile, the world smiles with you.

we are always drawn to those with whom we have something in common.

when the time comes for you to make an ask, there is someone there to lend a hand.

is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.

there is little you can't accomplish in collaboration with others.

He said, "The main thing that you bring the church is the person that you become, and that's what everybody will see; that's what will get reproduced; that's what people will believe. Arrange your life so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.