Quotes About Community

I must tell you that even while working I think continually about the plan of setting up a studio in which you and I will be permanent residents, but which both of us want to turn into a shelter and refuge for friends, against the times when they find that the struggle is getting too much for them.

Thank you very much too for all the steps you have taken toward the exhibition of the Independents. On the whole I'm very glad that they've been put with the other impressionists.

Accustoming oneself to poverty, seeing how a soldier or a labourer lives and thrives in wind and weather, with ordinary people's fare and dwelling, is just as practical as earning a few guilders more a week. After all, one is not in the world for one's own comfort, and one does not need to be better off than one's neighbour.

And then, don't forget that I am not a born melancholic. The general nickname I have in this neighborhood is " `t schildermenneke," [The little painter fellow] and it is not without a certain dose of malice that I go abroad.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwanderer, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

And this will remain my policy, and it is quite possible that I shall give up my studio before long and go live in a peasant's cottage, so as not to hear or see educated people - as they call themselves - any longer.

You are thrifty yourself, you understand what is absolutely needed. And I ask you, can one do what is absolutely necessary with what remains for one's own use after paying for painting materials, models, and rent? If I had some friends, if I were a little known, yes, then it would be easier; but I have no friends, and my job is to try and make them.

Tribalism is the strongest force at work in the world today.

In so many church situations, nobody thinks they have problems. They simply have convictions and they're trying to get everyone else to live up to them.

My house has always been like everyone's house. You walk in, you're a part of the family, no matter who you are, what celebrity status you are, everyone is treated the same - with love from my mom.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

The rumor forthwith flies abroad, dispersed throughout the small town.

The organizer a woman.

Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.

How many neighbors ignoring Jolly for her ignorance and bad luck could go down on their knees and save their kid from choking to death this afternoon while the world was going on outside in the sunshine?

We weren't put on Earth to exclude each other.

The only cure for loneliness be givin'. When you be givin' you ain't got time to think 'bout what you don't got. But you got to give with your heart. You got to give from your heart. That's the only sure way to beat back that old demon o' loneliness.

You remember one thing, Peter. Ain't many of us able to go out and change the whole world, but ever'one of us can help change the people God brings our way.

herself. Moses laughed along with them. "You would be amazed the things men will say when they're standing around on the street corner. Since my trash route runs through the heart of the business district, I hear a great many

But you remember this, boy. Ain't nothin' better than bein' a leader. Ain't nothin' better than knowin' somethin' you done has made life better for folks.

Cracker Barrel's dining room bustled with activity. Joan had to raise her voice to be heard by Eve, who sat at the

had grown tonight, since Gordy and Crystal both brought friends. Joan was ecstatic at the popularity their little

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

Por qué nadie ha inventado el equivalente a Ikea para cuidar a los niños, el equivalente de Macintosh para hacer las tareas domésticas? La organización de la colectividad sigue siendo una prerrogativa masculina.