Quotes About Community

In the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.

Show me a church composed of real people who aren't afraid to acknowledge and talk about their flaws, and chances are, it's a growing church. If, on the other hand, vulnerability is met with the cold legalism of others, then prayerfully consider finding a place where authenticity is the focal point.

human happiness buttons that can be pressed—the same basic factors such as friendship, health, community, overcoming challenges with your own ingenuity, and feeling in control of your life. These work for everyone. At the same time, most of us are tempted by the ideas of convenience, status, and luxury, and buying ourselves treats to satisfy these temptations. And we're really good at justifying some of these trinkets as our true passions.

Everything in the community of life gives back 100 percent - except the humans.

Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers.

As you take your eyes off the false prize (of more, better, and different stuff), you put them on the real prizes: friends, family, sharing, caring, learning, meeting challenges, intimacy, rest, and being present, connected, and respected. In other words, those best things in life that are free. Like all things natural, building this wealth takes time, attention, patience, and reciprocity (that volleying of giving and receiving that builds relationships).

When a man becomes a believer in Christ, he becomes part of the family of God. We're more than friends; we're brothers.

Santa Claus had the right idea. Visit everyone once a year.

You ever see a planned community?' "All the streets are laid out evenly," Charlie said. "A perfect grid. Planned and predictable. Then look at some old European city. The streets and alleys were made up as they went along. The place evolved over centuries. It's messy, but it's real.

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

I wasn't the smartest kid in town but I've always thought if you hang around with smart people some of it's bound to rub off.

Queers make the best monks.

When you're growing up, it's always nice to have someone you can relate and look up to. I'm proud of how I conduct my business and how I have accomplished all that I have accomplished, and hope that I can be a positive influence on not only the Mexican community but also young boxers and people all around the world.

The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.

You never depend only on yourself, you never live only for yourself, and you have to realize that our most intimate thought, that we most own, is bound by a thousand bonds to that of the world. And he who speaks, he who writes is essentially someone speaking for all those who are voiceless.

We didn't have a beauty shop as I grew up.

The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.

Oregon is an inspiration. Whether you come to it, or are born to it, you become entranced by our state's beauty, the opportunity she affords, and the independent spirit of her citizens.

A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space.

It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.

Beauty should be shared for it enhances our joys. To explore its mystery is to venture towards the sublime.

Our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.

I believe that beauty is a basic service.