Quotes About Community

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

We realize how dangerous and painful life is if we don't open up. We know we have to do it. And as soon as we start to try, we realize immediately that there is no way that we could ever do this alone, because opening up means opening to what's around us, to others, to the world, and to our radical connectedness.

It turns out that it takes courage simply to be a normal person at ease in the world among others.

But the whole point of mind training is to promote, to the bottom of our hearts, down to our bones, even to the marrow, the understanding and the feeling that we are not alone in this sadly poignant situation. We are together in it with everyone else. And that makes it beautiful, and even joyful, no matter how hard it may get.

No one achieves wealth and power exclusively through his or her own efforts. You can pull yourself up by your bootstraps, but someone gave you the boots.

After we tried ecstasy everyone at school called us 'The Group'.

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It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much.

Social constructivist and postmodernist articles of faith-that no community of knowers enjoys a privileged epistemological position above any other-obviously stokes the confidence of multiculturalism's advocates when they insist that these "Otherly" perspectives be brought into today's science classroom, despite their poor fit with standard science.-';

I am looking for the people who have always been there, and belong to the places they live. The others I do not wish to see.

We were a single body,' Pisciotta said, 'bandits, police and Mafia, like the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

The world is full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the further one gets from Missoula, Montana.

Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to help. We are probably those referred to as "our brother's keepers," possessed of one of the oldest and possible one of the most futile and certainly one of the most haunting instincts. It will not let us go.

The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it--while forcing everybody to assimilate their own alienation--takes cover under dubious and sinister masks.

The standing of the local high school football team was more likely to be the subject of conversation and concern than the war in Europe.

I started at the bottom and loved just one; and if you love one, you can love many; and if many, you can love all.

I always think that the essence of a good dinner- or breakfast-party is not the tablecloth, nor even the nature of the food, but the company. I think precisely the same concerning the Lord's Supper.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have

I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.

The most intimate community of all knowledge—the republic of learning is the high purpose of scholars.