Quotes About Community

Suddenly all those individuals who yesterday felt that "we" meant only their families, their professions, or perhaps their communities, become men of the nation. Their emotions and thoughts, their egos, that "something" within them, all are transformed: they have become historical.

a town that smelled of chicken guts, hog manure, and rampant incest, which seemed to be the three main industries.

A parasite cannot live alone

One of the most common precursors to relapse is insufficient attendance at OA meetings.

The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness

You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town.

Therefore it is only people living in the same period and, broadly speaking, in the same community, who inhabit the same world. People living in other periods, or even at the same period but in a totally different community, do not inhabit the same world about which they have different ideas, they inhabit different worlds altogether.

When a new thing or a new idea comes into the consciousness of the community, it is described, not by a new word, but by the name of the pre-existing object which most closely resembles it.

Yuengling's

There was a cinema called The Orient outside the community centre where we rehearsed in Six Ways , and whenever it showed a horror film the queue would go all the way down the street and around the corner. 'Isn't it strange how people will pay money to frighten themselves?' I remember Tony [Iommi] saying one day. 'Maybe we should stop doing blues and write scary music instead.'

Mert a provincializmus csak a provinciában érdekes. Mert érdekeltek vagyunk. Az itteni pletykák és cinkosságok fontosak: nekünk; a mi bÅ'rünkre megy. Saját nívótlanságunkhoz elérzékenyülten ragaszkodunk.

Milyen nagy szüksége van a hazának azokra, okoskodott, nem - van másik! -, fütyörészett Esti, akik fütyülnek rá.

If I had stayed in the community I would not be starving. it's as simple as that. . . . but if I'd stayed ... I would have starved in other ways. I would have lived a life hungry for feelings . . . for love.

We're not saints, and we're not screwups. We're just...people.

There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any over-large concentration of like-minded individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.

If we are kind and considerate, people will want to be around us, and we benefit from enduring circles of attention and care.

You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them.

Few things would gratify me as much as a rediscovered respect for things belonging to others. Not abusing the property of others (or that of the community) is one of the ways in which we respect others. It is an essential part of being considerate guests, no matter where we are: in an airplane, in a friend's home, in a movie theater, in a doctor's office, in a public library, or in a public square.

A human moment occurs anytime two or more people are together, paying attention to one another. — Edward M. Hallowell (p. 34)

THERE IS NO JOY EXCEPT IN HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS' — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (p.16).

I am convinced that, to a significant extent, life is what our relationships make it. …To learn how to be happy we must learn how to live well with others, and civility is a key to that (p. 6).

To live is not enough; we must take part.

comer, al lado y conviviendo en armonía

En lugar del padre nuestro, los ateos del D.F. amanecemos con la retahíla de: sálvame mano de esta pinche cloaca en que me metiste, protégeme de la bola de ojetes que quieren acabar con nosotros, sálvame de la ley y sus guardianes.