Quotes About Community

People make one happy, not houses.

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

I remove my wedding rings and put them in the jewelry box. So many others have done this. I am not the only one. I am not the only one. But here, I am the only one.

When you take the small roads you see the life that goes on there, and this makes your own life larger.

Good weather will do this to people, bond them in their gratefulness.

I will be so glad for you to hear not the sounds of gunfire but the sounds of church bells, and of people working in peace.

This is the way things work sometimes, that good things get ideas from each other, say, well now let's go ahead and let her have it all.

Oh, why isn't there a Community Center for People Who Need a Little Something? If people would only tell the truth about the way they felt, it would be busy all the time. There could be folding chairs arranged in groups, people sitting there saying, "I don't know, I just wanted to come here for a while." I

That's what life is, at its best. A confession club: people admitting to doubts and fears and failures. That's what brings us closer to one another, our imperfections.

have never done this except with old-fashioned adults. It feels like we're in a new club. Gwen is wearing a brown

the palace of we

He'd come to realize people were made for that: sharing, being with one another.

Women do not leave situations like this: we push up our sleeves, lean in closer, and say, What do you need? Tell me what you need and by God I will do it. I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay. I've heard that when elephants are attacked they often run, not away, but toward each other. Perhaps it is because they are a matriarchal society.

He resents the very posture of people who are online, the way they bend their backs over their various devices, blocking out any possibility that they might engage with a real live person, who would never come with enough apps to satisfy them

He resents the very posture of people who are online, the way they bend their backs over their various devices, blocking out any possibility that they might engage with a real live person, who would never come with enough apps to satisfy them, let's face it.

crust that's shared is finer food / Than banquets served in solitude.

A friend of hers once described such acts of kindness as hold knots on life's climbing rope.

Don't we all want company in some form, are we not attracted to the idea of a body beside us in a thunderstorm, or another voice to help decide on dinner, to share astonishment at the latest political buffoonery or appreciation for the lush sets on Downton Abbey? Are we not, at our most basic, social animals, people who need other people, whether we want to or not?

philosophy? It's this: Our job, regardless of our bodily circumstances, is to rise above what holds us down, and to help others do the same!

Really, sometimes she just wanted to round up all the Emerson parents in the gymnasium, line them up single file, and then go down the line, one by one, smacking each of them upside the head and yelling, "What the hell is the matter with you?

People fear anyone who differs from what is considered normal, and in a small town the idea of normal can be as narrow as the streets.

Gradually people began to speak of the place as Amberside, though there were a few diehards who never stopped calling it Villa Caprice, or, as in the case of Eli Scaynes, the Villa Cay-priss. But Julian and Joe and Tom and Lucy and Davey never called it anything but the Blake's house; and Portia and Foster never called it anything but home. All their lives they knew that one of the best things that ever happened to them was to be able to call it that.

Mrs. Schultz believed in beer the way his grandmother believed in the Republican party.

A powerful truth is that if we love the Lord, love His Word, love His people, and love one another, we won't want to gossip.