Quotes About Community

It's not about the money, it's the kindness, the way it makes the recipient feel special. Life is hard and lonely for many people. If all of us would just make one another feel special now and then—not just with money, but however we can—wouldn't that be lovely?

Someone who once said, It's not about the money, it's the kindness, the way it makes the recipient feel special. Life is hard and lonely for many people. If all of us would just make one another feel special now and then—not just with money, but however we can—wouldn't that be lovely?

Only old retired coots and gold-digging bimbos live in Florida.

These days cream seldom rose in the intelligence community – but crap still floated.

The human race is at the apex of all life-forms because, no matter how strenuously sociologists and politicians and others of their persuasion insist on defining our species into interest groups and factions and classes and tribes, the better to control us, in truth our greatest strength is in the uniqueness of each of us.

Carl Jung. He theorized, among other things, that mind and matter are entwined, that as individuals and as a community of minds, we can affect reality, even unconsciously create it.

their mission was as simple as that of young Mormons going door-to-door to share the message of the Latter-day Saints.

the worst of all miseries to afflict the human heart is loneliness.

Poor Clares.

No. Let's just say they and I are in the same club. They're my kind. You can never be.

we are the instruments of one another's salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.

Sheriff Hayden Eckman

Such a commune of flesh and

that allows him to be accepted as a sort of honorary member of the gang

risible. In the Community, none

Family is the glue that holds the world together, even when it's not a family of one blood.

The first people settled there along the Santa Cruz River about twelve thousand years

You can have privacy and tranquility up there, too, but also a sort of neighborhood.

the Gila River Bapchule Indian Reservation, at

they will encourage one another until illusion becomes delusion

The free kitchen, after-school programs, keeping porn out of libraries—all that needs done, but it's dealing with the aftermath, not with the causes. I'm in the mood to deal with a cause.

Where an owner showed pride in his home, the fresh paint, the upright picket fence, the well-barbered shrubs only emphasized the debris, decay, and dilapidation that characterized the surrounding properties. Each island of order did not offer hope of a community-wide transformation, but instead seemed to be a dike that could not long hold back an inevitably rising tide of chaos.

Wealth had not corrupted him. What he'd chosen to do with his wealth corrupted him. First he insulated himself from ordinary human experience, and then deemed himself superior to the masses, excused himself from all constraints not only of morality but also of tradition, and subsequently felt justified in casting off his conscience as a worthless artifact of primitive and superstitious minds. He had made of himself a malignancy in the human community.

She wondered if she might be alone in this disquiet or whether these days other people experienced it as well, and she suspected that all of them knew the feeling whether they would admit it or not.