Quotes About Community

Surround yourself with 'yay-sayers' not naysayers.

We need to be angels for each other, to give each other strength and consolation. Because only when we fully realize that the cup of life is not only a cup of sorrow but also a cup of joy will we be able to drink it.'' HENRI NOUWEN

Everyone had forgotten her. But that's the way Penny was-- so quiet and unimportant that you could look right at her and never see her. Esther had no idea why Penny always showed up at Grandma's house on Sunday afternoons when they came to visit. She was just one of those nosy neighbors with no life of her own, who watched other people's lives as if watching a movie.

One thing I have learned during these past few terrible years is that our grief and sorrow should be shared, not carried alone.

So often I have felt alone in my journey, yet I've been afraid to let anyone see my fear and weakness.

Maybe it's because spiritual growth and vibrant faith in God don't happen in isolation, but under pressure.

The wilderness is a place where we can lean on God and trust His promises, but it's also a place to discover that the arms He provides and the ears that listen to our fears sometimes belong to flesh-and-blood people.

Like most rural girls, I had graduated from the Volkschule

Down Cut Shin Creek: The Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky by Kathi Appelt and Jeanne Cannella Schmitzer.

I thank her for starting that rumor in my brain that I was lovable. I thank her for her one-woman cult of blood, cum, spit, and razors that called me exquisite and shunned all the winners, cheerleaders, cops, and clear-skinned Hollywood movie stars.

He couldn't imagine what had made his father so angry or the townspeople so mean, but he knew with a child's sudden, clear conviction that it was his fault.

Lexington is not big enough to have clubs with long lines, but at least they don't have velvet ropes.

One hundred and fifty years ago, the respect we now have for nurses and the intense training that nurses must undergo was nothing but a seed in Florence Nightingale's imagination. If we believe that nurses are some of the most respectable and hardworking people in our community, we owe that belief to Florence Nightingale.

everyone must take responsibility not only for their own family and community but also for the problems of the world, which include overpopulation, environmental degradation, and human rights violations.

Life did not take over the world by combat, but by networking.

This being Black History Month, I would like to ask people to celebrate the similarities and not focus on the differences between people of color and not of color.

Among the oldest craft gilds in Germany were the weavers of Mainz (1099), the fishermen of Worms (1106), the shoemakers of Würzburg (1128), the makers of bed-ticks and the turners of Cologne, and the cobblers, tailors, and painters of Magdeburg from the twelfth century.

Therefore other bonds than those of political union must be found to hold society together and insure each individual some sort of order and protection.

known for millenniums, yet people today walk around wearing headphones because they can't stand to know their neighbors

Come with me. It's so much better than coming alone. (Lucan whispered to Lena)

While Xers saw independence as strength, Millennials see collaboration as power. In fact, our research tells us Millennials decide if they're staying in a new culture based on whether or not they feel connected.

She told Catty about Serena's late-night visit while they made breakfast burritos with red and green chili peppers, eggs, and cheese, and drank champurrados , a frothy mixture of water, cornmeal, chocolate, and cinnamon.

In the earliest days of World War II when London was undergoing the blitz but the United States had not yet been drawn into the hostilities, the US ambassador walked the streets during the hottest of the bombing and ask people at every level of British society what he could do to help. What a picture of our role as ambassadors of Christ's coming Kingdom!

The connection formed by a threat to one's county is the strongest connection of all. People adopt one another, march together. Only capture or death can tear them apart.