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Quotes About Community

Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.
~ Ruth Reichl
Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.
~ Mary Douglas
As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.
~ Caroline Kennedy
The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
~ Auguste Comte
In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had to learn early the art of how to get along with white folks.
~ Benjamin E. Mays
The socialism I believe in is everybody working for the same goal and everybody having a share in the rewards. That's how I see football, that's how I see life.
~ Bill Shankly
When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go downtown.
~ Tony Hatch
The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life.
~ James Cagney
For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it's what helps you survive.
~ Suge Knight
Cricket has so many meanings to so many Australians. It's become precisely that - an Australian way of life. And what a life it is. Some would even go as far as to say, 'marvellous'.
~ Richie Benaud
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.
~ Charles Handy
Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.
~ Emma Thompson
All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth.
~ Chief Seattle
The season for enjoying the fullness of life - partaking of the harvest, sharing the harvest with others, and reinvesting and saving portions of the harvest for yet another season of growth.
~ Denis Waitley
What matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win too. Even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then.
~ Fred Rogers
We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone's calling, to lead a life that helps.
~ Barry Lopez
If God grants me longer life, I will see to it that no peasant in my kingdom will lack the means to have a chicken in the pot every Sunday.
~ Henry IV of France
To be able to talk to your heart's content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about it is one of the greatest joys that life can offer.
~ Haruki Murakami
The Boston Celtics are not a basketball team, they are a way of life.
~ RED AUERBACH
In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.
~ Henri Nouwen
It is only when we stand up, with all our failings and sufferings, and try to support others rather than withdraw into ourselves, that we can fully live the life of community.
~ Jean Vanier
It is the human things that make life good, the unexpected kindness, the friendly note, the bracing word, the neighbour's extra loaf of bread she leaves at our back door.
~ Stevie Ray Vaughan