Quotes About Community

Ian and Joseph returned at dawn, alive but battered, and the entire village welcomed them as men. One minute I was puffed up wi' pride that they had earned their warrior marks, then next all but daft wi' envy that I was still but a lad in their eyes." He chuckled at the memory. "I struck Ian ere the day was out.

For Marie Force, who reached out to me in 2011 when I lost my newspaper job and encouraged me to self-publish — and then showed me how. From notes on a napkin at RWA13 to reality, here is the book we talked about. Thanks for everything.

WARMING UP TO the crèche turned out to be easy. Warming up to the other mothers there isn't. I'm aware that Anglo-American-style instant bonding between women doesn't happen in France. I've heard that female friendships here start out slowly, and can take years to ramp up. (Though once you're finally 'in' with a French woman, you're supposedly stuck with her for life. Whereas your English-speaking insta-friends can drop you at any time.)

I don't want to be Jewish, I want to be British," she announces in early December.

Jos siis lihavuus leviää sosiaalisissa verkostoissa, niin leviää laihuuskin. Jos kaikki muutkin olettavat pääsevänsä liikakiloistaan, niistä todennäköisesti pääsee itsekin.

I've got the first two books," Calla said. "I'll loan them to you." The young woman seemed momentarily surprised and then happily agreed. "I guess that's what people who read stuff do," she said. "They loan books to each other.

Just because we're living in the stickes doesn't mean we have to look like we belong here

If you and I can learn to tell our stories—not necessarily in writing but in talking about them, in daily living and in worship—we will affect our world in ways that only eternity will tell.

We're stuck on this image of gay women as masculine and gay men as feminine, and we refuse to recognize that they look just like you and me. The black community is going to have to recognize that condemning these guys because they're gay is wrong.

Certains joggers setaient le savon, d'autres la sueur. Les uns dévisageaient les femmes, les autres les ignoraient. C'était un ballet d'habitués qui tournaient, transpiraient, souffraient et tournaient encore. Elle aimait faire partie de ce monde de derviches tourneurs. Sa tête se vidait peu à peu, elle se sentait flotter. Les problèmes se détachaient tels des morceaux de peau morte.

And gun-owning truck drivers in Louisiana have more in common with trishul-wielding Hindus in India, bearded Islamists in Pakistan, and nationalists and populists elsewhere, than any of them realize.

Food should come from the place of its origin, and stay there. It shouldnt spend its time crisscrossing the globe for the sake of profit. We went down that path once, and it brought us to ruin.

The street teaches you how to determine which people to trust and which ones to stay away from.

Next to the fire is where you are born and where you die. Around the fire is where encounters are sealed.

Halk tektir, çünkü yerleÅŸik topluluk s?n?rlanm?? tehlikelerden kaynaklanan korkular? yat??t?rmak için iÅŸbirliÄŸi yapar. Bunun yerine çokluk, kendini evinde hissetmeme duygusundan, "tüm taraflar? ile dünyaya maruz kalma" duygusundan kaynaklanan risk ile birleÅŸir.

Çok, çok olduklar? ölçüde, "kendini evinde hissetmeme" duygusunu paylaÅŸanlar ve asl?nda bu deneyimi kendi toplumsal ve politik pratiklerinin merkezine yerleÅŸtirenlerden oluÅŸur.

Çokluk nosyonu ile liberal düÅŸünce aras?nda bir ortakl?k var gibi görünür, çünkü bireyliÄŸe deÄŸer verir, ama ayn? zamanda da kendini ondan radikal bir ÅŸekilde ay?r?r, çünkü bu bireylik evrenselden, türselden, birey-öncesinden kaynaklanan bir bireyleÅŸme sürecinin nihai ürünüdür.

I'm just saying, grace is available to all of us if we make it available to each other.

Mentors and apprentices are partners in an ancient human dance, and one of teaching's great rewards is the daily chance it gives us to get back on the dance floor. It is the dance of the spiraling generations, in which the old empower the young with their experience and the young empower the old with new life, reweaving the fabric of the human community as they touch and turn.

We can put the chairs in a circle, but as long as they are occupied by people who have an inner hierarchy, the circle itself will have a divided life, one more form of "living within the lie": a false community.

Citizenship is a way of being in the world rooted in the knowledge that I am a member of a vast community of human and nonhuman beings that I depend on for essentials I could never provide for myself.

the ancient human question "Who am l?" leads inevitably to the equally important question "Whose am l?"-for there is no selfhood outside of relationship.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.14

During the Civil War, traumatized combatants developed a condition that they called "soldier's heart."8 The violence that results in soldier's heart shatters a person's sense of self and community, and war is not the only setting in which violence is done: violence is done whenever we violate another's integrity. Thus we do violence in politics when we demonize the opposition or ignore urgent human needs in favor of politically expedient decisions.