Quotes About Community

when, indeed, one would have thought the very city itself was running out of the gates, and that there would be nobody left behind,—you may be sure from that hour all trade, except such as related to immediate subsistence, was, as it were, at a full stop.

And here I must observe again, that this necessity of going out of our houses to buy provisions was in a great measure the ruin of the whole city

I could fill this account with the strange relations such people gave every day of what they had seen; and every one was so positive of their having seen what they pretended to see, that there was no contradicting them without breach of friendship, or being accounted rude and unmannerly on the one hand, and profane and impenetrable on the other.

I had set the Evening wholly apart to consider seriously about it, and was all alone; for already People had, as it were by a general Consent, taken up the Custom of not going out of Doors after Sun-set, the Reasons I shall have Occasion to say more of by-and-by.

He knew as well the stories of generosity and courage and self-sacrifice: the clergy who encouraged and comforted all who came – including the outcast Catholics, Jews, and Dissenters; the doctors who tended the poor without fees; the officials working quickly to calm panic and stave off disaster; the watchmen, the deadcart drivers, the 'buryers' at the pits; the parents and children and servants and friends who encouraged, comforted, tended, worked, saved, and mourned.

Dreams are private myths; myths are shared dreams).

Television, as the poet T. S. Eliot warned in 1963, when the then-new medium was spreading into homes, "permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

Feelings of inclusion depend not so much on having frequent social contacts or numerous relationships as on how accepted we feel, even in just a few key relationships.

Todos somos más inteligentes que cualquiera de nosotros aisladamente considerado».

como dicen los japoneses: «Todos somos más inteligentes que cualquiera de nosotros aisladamente considerado».

La transición no provendrá de los decretos gubernamentales si no de las mejoras que el individuo intente lograr y que otros apoyen espontáneamente. - Dalai Lama

Lo pequeño es hermoso: economía como si la gente importase.

Is it just for me, or for others? For the benefit of the few, or the many? For now, or for the future?

This is what it means to serve: improving another's life and, in turn, improving the world.

Numbersign questionmark you and Asterisk exclamation point the world.

All over the world are particular people, and you could be happy with probably five or six of them, eight if you're bisexual and everyone is.

Come on in, I said again, and he came on in and I hugged him. I felt his arms, warm through the linen. Suddenly there was a reason to leave the house and see other humans, because some of them were good.

Love makes the world go round, the hit songs collectively tell us, and the world is full of people you don't know and might as well be nice to because they won't leave.

the world is full of people you don't know and might as well be nice to because they won't leave.

All over the world are particular people, and you could be happy with probably five or six of them, eight if you're bisexual and everyone is.

Nobody keeps score, because there's no sense in keeping track of what everyone is doing.

Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.

I may soon be coming to Warren, tos pend the rest of my life with the others...waiting.

Se você é intelijente você podi ter muitos amigos pra conversar e você nunca fica solitário sosinho o tempo todo.