Quotes About Community

The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.

The more the merrier.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Life is not about maximizing everything, it's about giving something back - like light, space, form, serenity, joy. You have to give something back.

No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.

Having an experience is taking part in the world. Taking part in the world is really about sharing responsibility.

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

One of the most important responsibilities in the Christian life is to care about others, smile at them, and be a friend to the friendless.

Any group of persons – prisoners, primitives, pilots, or patients – develop a life of their own that becomes meaningful, reasonable and normal once you get close to it.

Life is not about winning the race. Life is about finishing the race, and how many people we can all help finish this race. How we can start being kinder to each other

The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct.

The ride does not require an explanation, just participants.

Everyone can do simple things to make a difference, and every little bit really does count.

Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life.

Your friends will determine the quality and direction of your life.

You cut a hole in the building and people can look inside and see the way other people really lived.. it's making space without building it

I see people with Asperger's syndrome as a bright thread in the rich tapestry of life.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

we are the ones we have been waiting for

I think now, so late, too late, of the neighbor's lawn service, using leaf blowers to release herbicide all over their lovely roses. How all of that invisible death didn't disappear into the air. How it coated us, all of us, and that holding pond. How it masked us from ourselves. How it shone through us and we didn't even know it.

Earth people made him uncomfortable, particularly in groups.

We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you.

We are not put on this earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you.

When our fathers dissolved their connection with Great Britain, by declaring themselves free and independent States, they constituted thirteen separate communities, and were careful to assert and preserve, each for itself, its sovereignty and jurisdiction.