Quotes About Community

I might even know more divorced people than married people, because I live in godless Los Angeles, where if you're engaged it simply means you're publicly announcing that you are dating a person monogamishly. I

Jesus comes first. Then others. Then yourself. All of our decisions come down to that. Christ taught us to live in community. He wants us to be His hands and feet.

contact between people is more important than convenience.

If you admire our faith, strengthen yours. If you admire our sense of commitment, deepen yours. If you admire our community spirit, build one. If you admire the simple life, cut back. If you admire quality merchandise or land stewardship, then make quality. If you admire deep character and enduring values, live them.

A star geiko is never, ever alone and I always wanted to be by myself.

She was thanking everybody because she believed, as do many Japanese, that it takes a village to raise a child. I was the product of a group effort rather than any given individual. And the group was Gion Kobu.

What good is self-cultivation and wisdom if you just keep it for yourself? Knowledge is meant to be used, and if you can use it on behalf of others, you should.

Let us not hold ourselves above our fellow human beings, no matter how great the disparity. To withhold your scorn is already beautiful. To see how we are all of one family is compassion.

To be an immigrant Is to be solitary in the midst of millions.

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

To laughter! The bright coinage of the bank of good will.

I'm in a town where twenty years ago a dyke couldn't buy a dildo but this hadn't ket some mighty queer fucking from going on.

Ara és l'hora de dir, ara és l'hora de recordar que el poble persisteix en tots nosaltres, en cada un de nosaltres, i que tot allò que hem fet i tot allò que hem desitjat és l'essència mateixa del poble indestructible.

Vajah beganagi nahin malum Tum jahan ke ho vahan ke ham bhi hain

Sing to the lonely, comfort the frightened, and awaken the love in sleeping hearts

You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I felt completely at home for two decades, suddenly people like us - brown people - were looked at as the 'Others.'

New York City is home to so many people from so many places and the uniqueness of it is that you never feel a foreigner. English is almost hardly ever heard in the subway. In fact, it's weird.

I am told that only two groups carry very little negative baggage inside of Christianity: Franciscans and Quakers.

Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.

We don't really believe in mowing the lawn; we do it only to avoid unnecessary engagement with the neighbors.

We were always getting away with something, which implied that someone was always watching us, which mean were are not alone in this world.

When you live alone people are always thinking they can stay with you, when the opposite is true: who they should stay with is a person whose situation is already messed up by other people and so one more won't matter.

I wish there were a class where we could just keep going around the circle. around and around, until we had finally said everything about ourselves.