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Quotes About Community

Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.
~ Mother Teresa
We meet no ordinary people in our lives. If you give them a chance, everyone has something amazing to offer.
~ Ryan Seacrest
For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.
~ N. Scott Momaday
Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.
~ Edward Abbey
If we don't unite, chances are we will go back into slavery.
~ John Henrik Clarke
For me, the stars are the invisible people on the street that people don't really get a chance to know.
~ Jamel Shabazz
Best thing about doing Youtube as a job - the Youtube friends that I've met all around the world, that I never would have got the chance to meet without Youtube.
~ Tyler Oakley
Students should not only be trained to live in a democracy when they grow up; they should have the chance to live in one today.
~ Alfie Kohn
This can be the value of our personal suffering. We can understand firsthand that we are all in the same boat and that the only thing that makes any sense is to care for one another.
~ Pema Chodron
Unwise selfish people think only of themselves, and the result is confusion and pain. Wise selfish people know that the best thing they can do for themselves is to be there for others. As a result, they experience joy.
~ Pema Chodron
We're all in this together, all so interconnected that we can't awaken without one another. We
~ Pema Chodron
the best way to serve ourselves is to love and care for others.
~ Pema Chodron
If spiritual practice is relaxing, if it gives us some peace of mind, that's great—but is this personal satisfaction helping us to address what's happening in the world?
~ Pema Chodron
Even if we're alone, our yawns and farts communicate.
~ Pema Chodron
Por qué cree que abrir una librería es inverosímil?-le gritó al viento-. ¿La gente de Hadborough no quiere comprar libros? -Han perdido el deseo por las cosas raras -dijo (...)-. (...) Y no me diga usted que los libros no constituyen una rareza en sí mismos. (La librería)
~ Unknown
Por qué cree que abrir una librería es inverosímil?-. ¿La gente de Hardborough no quiere comprar libros? -Han perdido el deseo por las cosas raras-dijo (...). (...) Y no me diga usted que los libros no constituyen una rareza en sí mismos.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
Es un buen libro y, por lo tanto, debería intentar vendérselo a los habitantes de Hardborough. No lo entenderán, pero será mejor así. Entender las cosas hace que la mente se vuelva perezosa.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
Hojear libros es parte de la tradición de una libreria -le dijo Florence-. Debes dejar que se queden y toquen los libros.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
But we weren't meant to live alone,' said Frank. 'Life makes its own corrections.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
We are the body of Christ. We are the continuing incarnation of the Divine. Look around and see Jesus. We who believe and trust and love each other are the manifestation of God in this place, at this time.
~ Unknown
The urge to garden transcends social circumstance, which accounts for the allotment movement, of which more later, and the floral energy of small front gardens up and down the land.
~ Penelope Lively
Simplify; small is beautiful; cherish the living earth; bless the community where you live; think globally, act locally; watch your boundaries; choose what is handmade with love; don't eat food you don't like; don't be deprived of firelight; don't take anything seriously; and don't let people get you down." Ember
~ Unknown
The brokenness of his body (and we are his body) is healed in our love, in our common life—which is his love, his life, in us.
~ Unknown
Today in the United States, corpses that are unclaimed or unidentified or that no family member or friend can afford to bury are generally buried in mass graves. In Chicago, Illinois, they are buried in groups of about thirty-five in a memorial park. In New York City they are ferried to Hart Island for burial in a mass grave. These free burial sites are typically known as potter's fields.
~ Unknown