Quotes About Community

It's not the things we get but the hearts we touch that will determine our success in life.

I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.

There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.

there is aspecial place in hell for women who do not help other womem

Go for it, never back down, and don't give in, because there's no greater satisfaction in life than using your gifts to help others and to contribute to your community and country.

There's a special place in hell reserved for women who don't help other women.

There is a special place in hell for women who do not help each other.

There's a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.

The complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.

caring about others and about the proposition that we are all created equal—is the single most effective antidote to the self-centered moral numbness that allows Fascism to thrive.

With help from its friends, however, democracy can almost always be repaired, then made better.

Uncontrolled migration produces social friction not because many refugees are criminals and terrorists (they aren't), but because living side by side with strangers requires two precious commodities: goodwill and time. Both are necessary to build trust; neither is as widely available as we would like.

In recent years, we have all become familiar with the counterterrorism mantra: "See something, say something." In the pages that follow, I propose an added exhortation—do something. What that something might be is for each of us to decide in accordance with our opportunities and talents, but it begins by pushing back harder against the debilitating cancer of cynicism.

Fascist attitudes take hold when there are no social anchors and when the perception grows that everybody lies, steals, and cares only about him- or herself.

I like to think of home as a verb, something we keep recreating.

I wondered: what happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change?

Without the musician, all life would be loneliness.

Don't ever try to be only a single thing, an unbroken human being. If so many people love you, can you honestly be one thing?

What happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change?

IN THOSE DAYS, your village might change hands every few weeks, one day to the Communists, the next to the Nationalists, the next to the Japanese. How easy it was to mistake your brother for a traitor or your beloved for an enemy, to fear that you yourself were born in the wrong moment of history. But in the teahouses, anyone could share a few songs, anyone could lift their wine cup and toast the validity and the continuity of love.

Everyone looked at me, because I was the most beautiful woman in the town. I don't say this to boast, because there is nothing in it to boast of. It was nothing I did myself.

If I were valuable to anyone, I would not be allowed to live alone.

The biggest and most important reason in the world is to be together with someone in a way that makes life a little less bleak and solitary and lonesome. To exchange the I for We. In the biggest sense of the word, it's cold outside. And kindness and affection and gentleness build a nice warm fire inside.

It was a profession that fed on gossip.