Quotes About Community

Lucas watched the boy hop back onto the street and hold out the tinfoil for his friends' inspection.

How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people…. Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are dispensable.

When you think about it, going to the movies is bizarre. Hundreds of strangers sit in a blackened room, elbow to elbow, for two or more hours. They don't go to the toilet or get a smoke. Instead, they stare wide-eye at a screen, investing more uninterrupted concentration than they give to work, paying money to suffer emotions they'd do anything to avoid in life.

Stories are the currency of human relationships.

If we don't do likewise, we'll soon have a sclerotic society that takes care of its elders at the expense of its youth.

The issue is whether we'll invite those who are currently taken for nobodies into the human family or force them to crash our gates.

Let us see to it that ponderers, thinkers, feelers survive in our midst.

Other unsolved murders or untimely deaths were readily blamed on the supposedly sinister Jews: If a Jewish doctor failed to save a life, the whole Jewish community might be attacked and fined.

How they chirped over their cups.

What chance has a Saint Francis, if his Assisi is a multicultured, financial, unyieldingly secular northern city, whose lepers and other detrimentals are charges on the public purse?

Come back, Felicia. Don't leave Frenchman's Bluff. Don't leave the children." He brushed his lips against hers, and his voice lowered. "Don't leave me. You've taught me so much already, but I have so much more to learn." She smiled a little. "What have I taught you, Mr. Murphy?" "More than you could imagine, my love. But it'll take me a lifetime to find the words to tell you.

We had to go back to the coffeehouse: the Wreck was there. Mel had walked over. Well, I don't know about walked . He had come over without vehicular assistance anyway.

I said with perfect honesty, I have no intention of trying to take these suckers out by myself, no.

we may not like it, but we need human friends, because we have human enemies whether we will or nay.

I loved every one of these people. And I couldn't take another minute of their company.

Cornbread? He brightened immediately. I was as bad as Paulie, really, despite how long I'd been doing this. Someone wants to eat my food, they're automatically my friend. Someone who doesn't want to eat my food, they automatically aren't. This is an awkward attitude if you hang out a lot with a vampire.

It is halfway true that if you are involved in a family coffeehouse you don't have a life.

If everyone would sweep their own doorstep, the whole world will be clean.

Mother Teresa said it so well: 'If everyone would sweep their own doorstep, the whole world will be clean.

If everyone would sweep their own doorstep, the whole world will be clean.' 

there is great power in association and we do become deeply affected by the company we keep.

relationship wealth. This is all about feeling connected to other human beings and forging a strong and loving community around you.

The hand that gives is the hand that gathers.

And always be more interested in other people than being concerned with coming off as an interesting person. Every human being you meet has a lesson to teach, a story to tell and some dream in their heart that longs for your support.