Quotes About Community

The trouble with being able to lift heavy things is that when heavy things need lifting folk step out of the way and smile at you.

Few indeed are those who get a choice. We do as we are told. We stand or fall beside those who were born near to us, who look as we do, who speak the same words, and all the while we know as little of the reasons why as does the dust we return to.

There must be always wine and fellowship or we are truly lost.

coming to Hollyhill to visit my

Everything in the Shaker community was built for service. Nothing was put there without a purpose, and there was no wasted frills. Nothing was built or done just because it was pleasing to the eye.

She imagined books and this book group getting her through whatever was coming next.

Separately we might have sunk, but together we moved beyond bloodlines and nationalities and backgrounds and formed a vessel that somehow stayed afloat.

At the same time, popular notions of marriage and the home were challenged on other fronts. Utopian communities experimented with radical new forms of marriage or, as in the Oneida Community, did away with it altogether. The Shakers took up celibacy, the Mormons polygamy; and Charles Knowlton issued an underground best-seller on birth control methods. William Alcott, Catherine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and scores of other experts countered

When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.

Sheep are in.

So much could be solved, she thinks, if we simply held hands with each other more often.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?" —GEORGE ELIOT

Take stock of who we are and what we have and then use it for good.

much could be solved, she thinks, if we simply held hands with each other more often.

Humans need community, for our emotional health. We need connection, a sense of belonging. We are not built to thrive in isolation

he's telling the kids to help others when they need help, and to accept help when they need it themselves.

deliberate about how they lived, wouldn't tolerate assholes, and always had each other's back. "How can I help?

we're skeptical and filled with cynicism, then we see that in each other. And it's so important that we try to live in the world that we want to live in.

We're all interconnected, and when you see that, you see how beautiful life is.

William worked on his passing too, so he could feed the ball to the best players in the park. He wanted to keep his place on the court, and he knew that if he made the other boys better, he had value.

rocks in your mother's garden, and that old man who sleeps by the train station. We're all interconnected, and when you see that, you see how beautiful life is.

We're not separated from the world by our own edges." Charlie set down his beer glass, empty now, and rubbed his hand up and down his arm, as an example of one of his edges. "We're part of the sky, and the rocks in your mother's garden, and that old man who sleeps by the train station. We're all interconnected, and when you see that, you see how beautiful life is.

You know what 'congregate' means? It's from the Latin. 'Greg' means herd. 'Con' means with. We're with our herd.

I know people not from here probably don't understand our feeling for these hills. Our love for land not spectacular. Our mountains are not like Western ones, those jagged awesome ones, your eyes always pulled to their tops. But that is the difference, I decided. In the West, the mountains are mostly horizon. We live in our mountains. It's not just the tops, but the sides that hold us.