Quotes About Community

When a person has no other persons he invents them because he was not designed to be alone, because it isn't good for a person to be alone.

people can't live without a story, without a role to play.

I'm starting to wonder if the whole point of life is to be thankful and to live in such a way others are thankful for theirs as well.

We learn that we are lovable or unlovable from other people... That is why God tells us so many times to love each other.

I believed if word got out about grace, the whole church was going to turn into a brothel.

We tend to collect people with similar life journeys for that very reason; they make us feel like we have a tribe.

God made me, He knows me, He understands me, and He wants community.

La gente busca un guía que les ayude, y no otro héroe.

Quienes se dan cuenta de que la historia épica de la vida, en realidad, no trata de ellos mismos sino de quienes les rodean, acaban ganando.

People want to be involved in a story that is larger than themselves.

Brands that give customers a voice in a larger narrative add value to their products by giving their customers a deeper sense of meaning.

El territorio común, ya sea en términos de gustos musicales o valores compartidos, es una poderosa herramienta de marketing.

You become like the people you interact with. And if your friends are living boring stories, you probably will too.

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By writing about the community we will create or join, and by listing the ways we will appreciate nature and art, we are reminding ourselves, over and over, that life is not about us. It's about sharing our human experience with other people.

La verdad es que no estamos únicamente interesados en nuestra propia supervivencia; también nos interesa la supervivencia de los demás, sobre todo de quienes no han tenido las mismas oportunidades que nosotros.

Así pues, ¿cómo ofrecer sentido a nuestros clientes potenciales? De manera no muy diferente a como les brindamos la oportunidad de ser generosos, lo que hacemos es invitarlos a participar en algo que es más grande que ellos mismos. Un movimiento. Una causa que promover. Una lucha valerosa contra un malo real, ya sea de carne y hueso o una filosofía perjudicial.

Jesus does not want us floating through space or sitting in front of our televisions. Jesus wants us interacting, eating together, laughing together, praying together. Loneliness is something that came with the fall.

We even recommend a status-associated title for the nonprofit brands we work with. People will be much more likely to donate if they know they are an "Anchor Donor" and even more likely if they get special privileges like updates from the founder or access to other anchor donors at fund-raisers.

ARTICLE THAT SAID in the next five years we will become a conglomerate of the people we hang out with. The article went so far as to say relationships were a greater predictor of who we will become than exercise, diet, or media consumption.

Those who realize the epic story of life is not about them but actually about the people around them somehow win in the end.

La gente siempre elegirá una historia que la ayude a sobrevivir y prosperar.

our customers don't care. Why? Because that information isn't helping them eat, drink, find a mate, fall in love, build a tribe, experience a deeper sense of meaning, or stockpile weapons in case barbarians start coming over the hill behind our cul-de-sac.

This means that if we position our products and services as anything but an aid in helping people survive, thrive, be accepted, find love, achieve an aspirational identity, or bond with a tribe that will defend them physically and socially, good luck selling anything to anybody.