Quotes About Community

the Benedictine Rule, having no private property, abstaining from meat, and above all abstaining from sex.

everybody living in the empire was considered a Roman citizen,

and monasticism was an alluring, alternative lifestyle.

Queen Ælfthryth 'should be the protectress and fearless guardian of the communities of nuns'.

Thus I discovered that if one is the least bit welcoming in one's treatment of it, a word never comes alone. It brings along with it all those that belong to its clan...102

Dans les petites villes, les gens sont toujours prêts à partager vos ennuis. Si vous n'en avez pas, ils se font une joie de vous en créer.

Ä°skandinav uygarl???nda ve daha birçok baÅŸkalar?nda, deÄŸiÅŸ tokuÅŸlar ve sözleÅŸmeler, teoride gönüllü gerçekte ise zorunlu olarak yap?lan ve geri verilen hediyeler ÅŸeklinde ortaya ç?kar.

Tel est le peuple : ses défauts ne viennent que de son ignorance. Mais son coeur est bon comme le bon pain, et il a la générosité des enfants.

Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which is identical for everyone, and need only be turned up like a page in an account-book or the record of a will; our social personality is created by the thoughts of other people.

But even with respect to the most insignificant things in life, none of us constitutes a material whole, identical for everyone, which a person has only to go look up as though we were a book of specifications or a last testament; our social personality is a creation of the minds of others.

Car l'instinct d'imitation et l'absence de courage gouvernent les sociétés comme les foules.

Presently, one after another, like shyly hopping sparrows, her friends arrived, black against the snow.

Solitude sometimes is the best society.

I want to share all this in one place because if we talk, things get better, and more people we love might stick around so we can love them more.

The future of branding is marketing with people, not at them.

Good offense consists of developing business, trying cases with success, and building a good reputation within the trial community. Playing good defense means running the law firm like a business, being conservative in your spending, and worrying about tomorrow much more than about today.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

Here I could stay tethered forever with just bread and water, nor would I be lonely; loved friends and neighbors, as love for everything increased, would seem all the nearer however many the miles and mountains between us.

You are yourself a Sequoia. Stop and get acquainted with your brethren... It will do you good.

is perhaps true to say, not that civil liberty is the child of religious liberty, but that liberty, whether civil or religious, was the work often reluctantly, sometimes unconsciously, undertaken by communities of men who had an end higher than political, who refused to submit religion to politic arguments, who fought for ends never entirely utilitarian.

Our hunger to belong is the longing to find a bridge across the distance from isolation to intimacy. Every one longs for intimacy and dreams of a nest of belonging in which one is embraced, seen, and loved. Something within each of us cries out for belonging. We can have all the world has to offer in terms of status, achievement, and possessions. Yet without a sense of belonging it all seems empty and pointless.

We have fallen out of belonging. Consequently, when we stand before crucial thresholds in our lives, we have no rituals to protect, encourage, and guide us as we cross over into the unknown.

May we all receive blessing upon blessing. And may we realize our power to bless, heal, and renew one another.

Life is full of magnetic interims that call what is separate and different to become one, to enter into the art and presence of belonging.