Quotes About Community

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

I believe that even though each person has an individual and unique self, the self means nothing outside the context of community or meaningful contact with other people.

In the beginning of life, we need others to survive. At the end of life, we need others to survive. In between, we need others as well.

how reality feels. People addicted to busyness, people who don't just use their cell phones in public but display in every nuance of cell-phone deportment their sense of throbbing connectedness to Something Important—these people would suffocate like fish on a dock if they were cut off from the Flow of Events they have conspired with their fellows to create. To these plugged-in players, the rest of us look like zombies, coasting on fumes. For

Soon, I hope, this is what will happen. People will start to get better. The city will start to heal. Me and Gabriek and Anya and her baby will live together in our hideout, safe and happy behind our sack curtains. A family

We may not be in Manchester but we will always be united

miraron. A coro me transmitieron su

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

It would be a lot easier if each of us were related to someone of another color and if, eventually, we were all one color. In America, this can happen.

African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.

Each person should see himself as though the entire world is on a delicate balance, and with one deed, he or she can tip the scales.

We are very anxious to bring the Jews of Morocco over and we are doing all we can to achieve this. But we cannot count on the Jews of Morocco alone to build the country, because they have not been educated for this.

Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one person at a time - just one, one, one. So you begin. I began - I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand....The same thing goes for you, the same thing in your family, the same thing in your church, your community. Just begin - one, one, one.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for and deserted by everybody.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you.

If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.