Quotes About Community

On Earth, incidentally, civilization is the result of a group of humans coming together and suppressing their instincts.

There is no panacea, or utopia, there is just love and kindness and trying, amid the chaos, to make things better where we can.

Life is the people who love you.

You are not the only one with sorrows in this world. Don't hoard them like they are precious. There is always plenty of them to go around.

in a world trying to increasingly isolate us from our environment and our true selves, books are our route to freedom, and to each other'.

Life is the people who love you. No one will ever choose to stay alive for an iPhone. It's the people we reach via the iPhone that mater.

He believed that the more people were connected on social media, the lonelier society became.

The paradox of modern life is this: we have never been more connected and we have never been more alone.

he believed that the more people were connected on social media, the lonelier society became. That's why everyone hates each other nowadays, he reckoned. Because they are overloaded with non-friend friends.

Loneliness isn't an absence of company. Loneliness is felt when we are lost. But we can be lost right in the middle of a crowd. There is nothing lonelier than being with people who aren't on your wavelength. The cure for loneliness isn't more people. The cure for loneliness is understanding who we are.

The hardiest plant in the world is the purple saxifrage. It has delicate-looking flowers, with purple petals that seem as though they might blow away in the wind, yet it thrives in the Arctic. The flowers survive by clustering together, low to the ground, offering each other shelter against the hardest conditions on earth.

We are all so weird that, really, none of us are. There are seven billion versions of strange on this freak wonder of a planet. We are all part of that. All freaks. All wonderful.

For me, personally, the point of writing is to connect me to this world, to my fellow humans. We are all miles apart. We have no real means of connecting except via language. And the deepest form of language is storytelling.

One thing that has remained constant, across four centuries, has been the desire for a British person to fill a silence with talk of the weather, and whenever I have lived there I was no exception to this rule.

Facebook is where everyone lies to their friends. Twitter is where they tell the truth to strangers.

he believed that the more people were connected on social media, the lonelier society became. 'That's why everyone hates each other nowadays,' he reckoned. 'Because they are overloaded with non-friend friends.

Words – spoken or written – are what connect us to the world, and so speaking about it to people, and writing about this stuff, helps connect us to each other, and to our true selves.

the simplest and quickest routes to happiness seems to be to make someone else happy.

Be proud to act like a normal human being. Keep daylight hours, get a regular job, and mix in the company of people with a fixed sense of right and wrong.

That's why everyone hates each other nowadays,' he reckoned. 'Because they are overloaded with non-friends friends.

A world where, in the words of American sociologist Sherry Turkle, "we expect more from technology and less from each other.

People believed in witches because it made things easier. People don't just need an enemy, they need an explanation. And it's often useful, in unsettled times, where ignorance is

he believed that the more people were connected on social media, the lonelier society became. 'That's why everyone hates each other nowadays,' he reckoned. 'Because they are overloaded with non-friend friends. Ever heard about Dunbar's number?

And that had led to them talking about social media – he believed that the more people were connected on social media, the lonelier society became.