Quotes About Community

We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.

Scandal is a community service and a free entertainment at that; witnesses generally feel obliged to pay admission with sympathy.

If a community bends over backward to be publicly liberal, it can give itself the bonus of private snobbery.

But we weren't meant to live alone,' said Frank. 'Life makes its own corrections.

human beings interested her so much that it must always be an advantage to meet another one.

shared witness against injustice could marshal triumphs that wars never could.

According to W.H. Auden, "We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for, I don't know.

The Rubbish Picker's Wife

Dear Reader, I hope you're enjoying our time in Wolf Creek. I certainly am. I appreciate so much all your wonderful comments on the books so far. Lord willing, I'll keep trying to write about imperfect people who may have lost their way but find it again, stories that uplift and resonate with you in some way.

Se Ngunga está em todos nós, que esperamos então para o fazer crescer? Como as árvores, como o massango e o milho, ele crescerá dentro de nós se o regarmos. Não com água do rio, mas com ações. Não com água do rio, mas com a que Uassamba em sonhos oferecia a Ngunga: a ternura.

But there is me. And you. Somewhere out there, there's you. And I'm glad there's you. And I'm glad that I know that there's you. And somewhere, in a remote corner somewhere, there's a little we. A little we that will still be there no matter what happens now. First-person plural: We. I. And you. We.

And they used to have cross burnin's a lot more and family picnics and softball games and all such,' said Donald. 'I remember eatin' cake next to that glowing cross. I loved my mama's cake.' 'Yeah,' several voiced their agreement. 'We don't do nothin' now,' a man complained. 'I don't even know where my hood is. I don't even own a rope.

You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circle less, but to love those who exist beyond it more. Once make the feelings of confidence and of affection universal, and the distinctions of property and power will vanish; nor are they to be abolished without substituting something equivalent in mischief to them, until all mankind shall acknowledge an entire community of rights.

Thou demandest what is love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves, when we find within our own thoughts the chasm of an insufficient void, and seek to awaken in all things that are, a community with what we experience within ourselves.

Ageism is the racism of the gay world. We really believe that age—and all of our fears that it carries—will "rub off" on us, the way that racists once believed blackness would.

Clothes do not make the man; friends and engagement with life do.

Gays feel about popularity the same way teenage girls do. Is it that we really want friends we can count on, or do we just want guys around us whom we can share our curlers with?

Sports (and the often barely withheld violence around them) have become one of the few modern ways to connect with strangers. They give an amazing number of geeks things to talk about. In the old days we settled for, "Hello, how are you?"

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power." —MARK ZUCKERBERG

Christians should be living so that sinners are attracted to them.

Isolation separates you from opportunity, as people need people, and people hire other people.

Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.

He was a newspaperman,' he said, 'but there's some people who should never leave Savannah.

It's more important to know whom you are called to be with than what you are called to do.