Quotes About Community

I love the idea of reading books as a brotherly, sisterly moral obligation to one's people.

The people aren't in a hurry, and don't compete against each other all the time. They don't go chasing after pipe dreams. They're happy with who they are and what they have.

No, no, people in our country don't have the ability to club together to form a community, not even under the banner of the penny bun. This is a land of neurotic egotists, each of whom, as soon as he finds himself among others, starts to instruct, criticize, offend, and show off his undoubted superiority.

Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,His first, best country ever is, at home.

Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain.

psychiatrists who believe the illness is largely genetic find hard to explain: at least 20 per cent of schizophrenics completely recover, most of them able to live their lives without any drug treatment at all. A telling example of a recovered schizophrenic is Rufus May. Not only did he become wholly sane but, having done so, he trained as a clinical psychologist and now treats schizophrenics in a community project

We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.

The fight for freedom must go on until it is won until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.

I want to change the world and I used to think I needed to do some big, significant thing. More recently I see this can be accomplished one relationship at a time.

Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.

I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization.

Harriet was reminded of Doamna Flöhr's claim that the exclusiveness of the Jews was the exclusiveness of the excluded.

My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents.

Americans thought of themselves as citizens of their sovereign states, not of the nation, and La Fayette was perhaps the only real American:

Love is poverty, kenosis. Knowing one's neighbour is inseparable from an attitude of non-possession.

Il successo del nostro percorso dipende dalla nostra famiglia, dalla nostra compagna o dal nostro compagno, dagli amici che ci incoraggiano e ci circondano quando non abbiamo un soldo e ci ritroviamo col morale a terra. Sono loro a darci il coraggio di continuare la strada quando siamo divorati dal dubbio. Sul nostro impervio cammino, dipenderanno sempre dagli altri, da coloro che ci accolgono cm da coloro che ci raccolgono...

Pagodas are, like mosques, true houses of prayer; ?Tis prayer that church bells waft upon the air; Kaaba and temple, rosary and cross, All are but divers tongues of world-wide prayer.

When a number of people recite a sutra in one accord, they are told to recite it with their ears. It is good to recite the sutra in such a way that the voices of those sitting next to us enter our ears, and, passing through them, come out of our mouths by becoming our own voices. After the lecture, the testimonial teaching of the past Zen Master related to the temple or the lecturer, or Shiku Seigan Mon77 are recited by all present.

I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.

Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.

Life will go on as long as there is someone to sing, to dance, to tell stories and to listen.

Ideology is the glue that holds decentralized organizations together.