Quotes About Community

That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world.

We are pack!

I wondered if there was any way to live amongst other people and refuse to be harnessed by their expectations and dependencies.

Strangers had small interest in hurting you. That was always done best by your own family and friends.

To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.

I could set aside my responsibilities to others and live my life as I pleased only when I also severed my ties to them. I could not have it both ways. To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibilities, to be bound by the rules of that group.

Why not break free now, and make Bingtown a place where folk begin anew, all men standing on an equal footing?" "And all women, too." She must be Sparse's daughter, thought Keffria. Even her voice echoed his in tone. Devouchet looked at her in surprise. "It was but a manner of speaking, Ekke," he said mildly. "A manner of speaking becomes a manner of thinking.

Not every problem in the world belongs to you alone, Badgerlock. Let others have their share.

Una persona indiferente, cruel o insensible conserva aún la sensatez necesaria para saber que no siempre puede expresar cuán poco le importan los demás, y así sigue siendo aceptado en el seno de su familia o aldea.

I had learned, yet again, that I could not serve the Farseers and still claim a life for myself. Not this again, Changer. How could the moments of your life belong to anyone but you? You are the Farseers, blood and pack. See the whole of it. It is neither a binding nor a separation. The pack is the whole of you. The wolf's life is in the pack.

But when the enemy is finally driven far from your shore, and your houses are restored and your fields begin to yield and your flocks to increase, why, then it becomes time to find fault with your neighbors again.

I know of nothing more warming than hot meat and tea and good fellowship.

Not every problem in the world belongs to you, Tom Badgerlock. Let others have their share.

Town too late for Springfest. There'd

As we shouldered our packs and set off, I reflected bitterly that I had walked away from people I had known and cared about to avoid the very situation I was now in with comparative strangers. I wondered if there was any way to live amongst people and refuse to be harnessed by their expectations

A ruler must be of all his people, for one can only rule what one knows.

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? A sadder thing I cannot imagine. Why should not a mother say to herself, if I raise this child aright, if I love and care for her, she shall live a life that brings joy to those about her, and thus I have changed the world? Why should not the farmer that plants a seed say to his neighbor, this seed I plant today will feed someone, and that is how I change the world today?

To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

Why should not a mother say to herself, if I raise this child aright, if I love and care for her, she shall live a life that brings joy to those about her, and thus I have changed the world? Why should not the farmer that plants a seed say to his neighbor, this seed I plant today will feed someone, and that is how I change the world today?

I truly wanted to live a life in which I could make my own choices, independent of the 'duties' of my birth and position. It was only when fate granted that to me that I realized the cost of it. I could set aside my responsibilities to others and live my life as I please only when I also severed my ties to them. I could not have it both ways. To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibilities, to be bound by the rules of that group.

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Three Ships folk know that what a person has for a mind is more important than what is between their legs. Three Ships women will not give up our place alongside our men simply to say we are part of Bingtown now.

When settled people look for security, they look for continuity." Here