Quotes About Community

If you have a sin problem you don't run from the church, you run into it. p.73

watering holes had been packed for hours, with revelers throwing back shots of whiskey, hot toddies, and eggnog as they prepared to brave the cold for the traditional outdoor countdown. It seemed as if every city resident, young and old,

What I've found about it is that there are some folks you can talk to until you're blue in the face--they're never going to get it and they're never going to change. But every once in a while, you'll run into someone who is eager to listen, eager to learn, and willing to try new things. Those are the people we need to reach. We have a responsibility as parents, older people, teachers, people in the neighborhood to recognize that.

Root People may be hard to find because they're not trying to be seen. They do their work underground. But quietly and without fanfare, they provide help and support and nourishment. They are happy when I thrive.

You know, people don't want their intelligence insulted. They don't want to be preached to. They don't want to be degraded. All they want to do is sit, laugh, have a good time, love one another, forget about what's going on in the world, and find something out so they can be useful in this life. Do this and you have common sense.

when it comes to Root People, this is what I've learned along the way: They are here to help you, but in turn, like the roots of any tree or plant, they need to be nourished, too. Water them with love, appreciation, gratitude, and generosity. They want the best for you, and if your heart is open, you'll want the best for them, too.

My daughter's mother and I are no longer dating, and the people I'm most likely to date are those around me, who are athletes.

Each cell of a living organism cooperates with the cell next to it. It does not need any sentiment or declarations of undying love to do so. Each cell is wise enough to know that if its neighbour goes, it also goes. The cells stick together not out of brotherhood, love and that kind of thing, but out of the urgent drive to survive.   It is the same with us, but only in a larger scale. Soon we will all come to know one simple thing: if I try to destroy you, I will also be destroyed.

Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community ... but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots

Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.

There was a beauty to quiet collective activity that she would never take for granted.

The world will not change on its own. So we must stick together and put in the effort to change the world together.

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.

I bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.

The only people who really listen to an argument are the neighbours.

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in

I've been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this: If you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.

Women are the foundation of a society, but remember who laid them!

Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day.

Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.

A VOLUNTEER is a person who is a light to others, giving witness in a mixed-up age, doing well and willingly the tasks at hand-namely, being aware of another's needs and doing something about it.

Volunteers are not paid -- not because they are worthless, but because they are priceless.

You laugh at me because I am different, but I laugh at you because you are all the same.

Birds of feather flocks together