Quotes About Community

The value of our lives is not determined by what we do for ourselves. The value of our lives is determined by what we do for others.

Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity.

Whenever our interior life becomes caught up in its own interests and concerns, there is no longer room for others, no place for the poor.

Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.

What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life.

An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen, but greatens, his life.

I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'

It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.

Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life.

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.

We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity.

Isolation is a dream killer.

Runners are the ultimate celebration people. Running is just so intense, you're really experiencing life to the fullest.

The life and fellowship of the church is to be a foretaste of life in the Kingdom of God.

Friends create the world anew each day. Without their loving care, courage would not suffice to keep heartsstrong for life.

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others.

The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work.

Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.

Does anyone suppose that, in real life, answers to any of the great questions that worry us today are going to come out of homogeneous settlements?

Whenever we touch someone's life, we leave a trace over there. Always leave good traces so that you can walk in the streets freely!

No one can develop freely in this world and find a full life without feeling understood by at least one person.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

I'm surrounded by good people. That's the measure of a good life. All the rest is flotsam.