Quotes About Community

I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

I've got more than one membership to more than one club and I owe my life to the people that I love.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

Three things are needed for a good life, good friends, good food, and good song.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?

Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society.

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built upon the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way.

Its not what you have in your life, but who you have in your life that counts.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.

Unless a life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Only a life lived for others is worth living.

Life isn't weird: it's just the people in it.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.