Quotes About Community

I love the way knitting brings people together.

Addie had always considered the holidays an extra-special time of year. Magic hung in the air, and people were gentler, kinder to one another. Differences were set aside, friendships deepened, and people in general were more charitable and happier.

I was looking forward to my visit to the library. I've always been a big reader and thought I might eventually volunteer as a Friend of the Library.

Guide to Moving On. The first item on that list was: Don't allow yourself to wallow in your pain. Reach out. Volunteer. Do something you love or something to help others.

A Guide To Moving On: 1) Don't allow yourself to wallow in your pain. Reach out. Volunteer. Do something you love or something to help others. 2) Cultivate new friendships. 3) Let go in order to receive. 4) Love yourself. (Loving myself meant eating, sleeping, and exercising - taking care of myself emotionally and physically. It meant taking care of myself spiritually, too.)

If kindness can alter two people's attitudes toward each other, just imagine what it could do to change our world, one relationship at a time.

Pastor…" I stood outside, unsure this was the right place. "This is it? Hope Center?" I called him pastor but I thought of him as Drew. That was the way he'd introduced himself to me and it was the name that stuck in my head

Don't allow yourself to wallow in your pain. Reach out. Volunteer. Do something you love or something to help others.

The yarn forms the stitches, the knitting forges the friendships, the craft links the generations." —Karen Alfke, "Unpattern" designer and knitting instructor LYDIA HOFFMAN

knitters use both hands

Rule #2, Cultivate New Friendships.

Vero Beach," she said. "That's where Ruth's class reunion is taking place.

They sat in the same pew nearly every week;

The best vitamin for a Christian is B1.

the Girl Scout Cookie drives I'd organized, and how I'd been class mother for both Paul and Allie in their grade-school years. The last year Paul was in junior high, I'd been president of the PTA. My kids' teeth were straight, and they both were grounded and obtained above-average grades.

Debbie Macomber

The military might have its heroes, but the wives were the backbone

If more people knitted and crocheted, the world would see fewer wars and a whole lot less road rage.

Ian was living in fairyland and in our own way we all helped him to stay there.

As you likely know all too well, parenting an atypical kid in a conventional world is an often lonely and difficult journey, with our families

As ambitious women, we need to tell one another our stories. We need to tell the truth about our lives.

how getting into the habit of feeling comfortable turning to her network to ask for help has made her more effective:

Start thinking of strangers as people who can bring new dimensions to your life, not as persons to be feared.

We were taught not to offer or invite aid, because, like it or not, helping is a messy, confused proposition; sometimes you get it right and sometimes you get it wrong, and sometimes you have no choice but to trust that the man holding your tire iron, cussing at your old lug nuts, is a deeply kind human after all.