Quotes About Community

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. No libraries, no progress.

Ik besef plotseling dat ik in een voortdurende vrees leef te moeten bestaan in een maatschappij waar iedereen iedereen voor de gek houdt.

To live in idleness, even if you have the means, is not only injurious to yourself, but a species of fraud upon the community, and the children—if

Solitude is very sad, Too much company twice as bad.

29. The profession of the true Faith is the most essential note of the Church.

Faster cars, wider roads, and fancier fires do not make better picnics. Nor do cold wars produce warm hearts.

We are social creatures; we will be miserable if we try to cut off contact with other people. Therefore, if what we seek is tranquility, we should form and maintain relations with others. In doing so, though, we should be careful about whom we befriend. We should also, to the extent possible, avoid people whose values are corrupt, for fear that their values will contaminate ours. •

It will help us to overcome our anger, says Seneca, if we remind ourselves that our behavior also angers other people: "We are bad men living among bad men, and only one thing can calm us—we must agree to go easy on one another.

Seneca: "we are bad men living among bad men; and only one thing can calm us—we must agree to go easy on one another."1 Another thing to keep in mind

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Truth is the oil which lubricates the joints in the Body of Christ.

Word of mouth is the best medium of all.

So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

in a word, [they] did all the homely and necessary offices for them which dainty and queasy stomachs cannot endure to hear named; and all this willingly and cheerfully, without any grudging in the least, showing herein their true love unto their friends and brethren. A rare example and worthy to be remembered.

In the morning on Sunday, a drum is sounded at about 8 o'clock.

STRENGTHEN INTRAGROUP CONNECTIONS The neutral zone is a lonely place. People feel isolated, especially if they don't understand what is happening to them. As I have already noted, old problems are likely to resurface and old resentments are likely to come back to life. For these reasons it is especially important to try to rebuild a sense of identification with the group and of connectedness with one another.

They were the Land people. We were the sea people.

It's not that [writers] are pompous jerks. We are insecure. We feel like we're fading away in this vast sea of scriveners.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

When I play on my fiddle in Dooney,Folk dance like a wave of the sea.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

REGINA, REGINA PIGMEORUM, VENI Come Queen, Queen of the Pygmies