Quotes About Community

When you hang out with whiners, pessimists, tweakers, bleakers, freakers-outers, and life-is-so-unfairers, it's an uphill climb to keep yourself in a positive headspace. Stay away from people who see limitless possibility as the reality. Surround yourself with people who act on their big ideas, who take action on making positive change in the world and who see nothing as out of their reach.

Stay away from people with tiny minds and tiny thoughts and start hanging out with people who see limitless possibility as the reality.

There's something called the Crab Effect. If you put a bunch of crabs in a bowl and if, while they're in there crawling all over each other, one of them tries to climb out, the rest of them will try to pull him back down instead of helping to push him out. No wonder they're called crabs. Imagine how different our world would be if we were less crab-like.

If you want to reach a new level of success in any area of your life, you absolutely must surround yourself with high-vibe people, or at least one high-vibe person whom you're in constant contact with.

The power of giving is so strong that the excitement and the good feelings are often greater for the giver than for the receiver. Which

Talk to strangers, we're all family on this planet. • Expect, and enjoy, the unexpected. • Find the humor. • Join the party. • Live in the moment. • Time spent enjoying yourself is never time wasted. • Share your space.

We are here to share, we really are, which is why greed doesn't bring joy to anyone.

Surround yourself with people who act on their big ideas, who take action on making positive change in the world and who see nothing as out of their reach.

It's all about contributing to the world by making life easier, happier, safer, healthier, better, tastier, more beautiful, more fun, more interesting, more thoughtful, more loving—whatever you do, bring something good to the party.

When it comes to money, who and what you surround yourself with has a huge effect on how you perceive it and feel about it.

The most important part of your environment to be conscious of is the people you surround yourself with.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.     ââ'¬â€RalphWaldo Emerson; American poet, essayist, visionary, giver

If you're around people who are making money in great and joyful ways, you'll not only see what's possible for you, but you'll be motivated to push yourself.

invest your money wisely, exercise your body and your mind, practice safe sex, don't smoke cigarettes or get drunk in public and bad-mouth your neighbors—act as if you've got a long, happy life on Earth ahead of you.

A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool and what to wear.

We are your friends," Arnaud's voice was low and strong. "You do not stand alone.

I don't have any beauty shop memories. I remember the barber shop.

We didn't have a beauty shop as I grew up.

It's like being in a sort of club, isn't it? A bereavement club. You don't choose to join it; it's thrust upon you. And the members whose lives have been changed have more knowledge than those who aren't in it, but the price of belonging is so terribly high.

Kinder, Kirche, Küche: children, church, kitchen; this

People ostensibly turning a blind eye to their neighbors' activities while really harvesting and analyzing every last detail of their lives. The ingredients for their dinners. The color of their underwear, purchased in the local Ben Franklin. Who is sick, who is well, who is adulterous.

this book. It takes a village to raise a child, which is precisely what writing a novel is. If I have

Sometimes, it seems, when you let people know what you're going through, help arrives when you're least expecting it, bringing you what you didn't know you needed, in forms above and beyond what you've ever imagined.

A bereavement club. You don't choose to join it; it's thrust upon you. And the members whose lives have been changed have more knowledge than those who aren't in it, but the price of belonging is so terribly high.