quotations and passages about community

When the world seems large and
complex, we need to remember
that great world ideals all begin
in some home neighborhood.

Konrad Adenauer

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To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats,
is to see riders on the earth together, brothers and sisters on that bright loveliness
in the eternal cold--people who know now they are truly brothers and sisters.

Archibald MacLeish

The markets of the world are
flowing with goods and services produced by the interplay of
sun and earth, air and water,
and the inexhaustible imagination
and energy of human beings. Wherever you touch an object
made or conveyed by humans,
you are touched by all the
people who have reached their
hands to make this possible for you. Daily use is daily communion.

Arthur P. Moor

Each one of us is bound to make the little circle in which he or she
lives better and happier. Bound to see that out of that
small circle the widest good may flow.

A.P. Stanley

Billy Graham

The foundations of civilization are no stronger and no more enduring
than the corporate integrity of the homes on which they rest.
If the home deteriorates, civilization will crumble and fall.

A child's kiss
Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad;
A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich;
A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong;
Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense
Of service which thou renderest.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

George Eliot

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being
for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

If God is thy father, human beings
are thy brothers and sisters.

Alphonse de Lamartine

We can scarcely hate
anyone that we know.

William Hazlitt

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights
of humans may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher
may set his or her foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country."

Benjamin
Franklin

Find out how much God has given you and take from it
what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Saint Augustine

This is the true joy in life, the being used up for a purpose recognized
by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of
a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that
the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion
that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege
to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die,
for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
Life is no “brief candle” to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have
got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly
as possible before handing it on to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw

You may not have saved a lot of money in your life, but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks, you are a pretty rich person.

Seth Parker

Unless we give part of ourselves away,
unless we can live with other people and understand them and help them,
we are missing the most essential part of our own lives.

Harold Taylor

To complain that life has no joys while there is a single person
whom we can relieve by our bounty, assist by our counsels
or enliven by our presence, is to lament the loss of that which we possess,
and is just as rational as to die of thirst with the cup in our hands.

Thomas Fitzosborne

When you learn to live for others,
they will live for you.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Only a life lived for others
is a life worth while.

Albert Einstein

Set about doing good to somebody. Put on your hat and go and visit the sick
and poor of your neighborhood; inquire into their circumstances and minister
to their wants. Seek out the desolate and afflicted and oppressed. . .
I have often tried this method, and have always found it
the best medicine for a heavy heart.

Howard

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.

Albert Schweitzer

True happiness consists in making others happy.

Hindu proverb

Try to forget yourself in the service of others. For when we think too much
of ourselves and our own interests, we easily become despondent.
But when we work for others, our efforts return to bless us.

Sidney Powell

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The true joy of humankind is in doing that which is most proper
to our nature; and the first property of people is to be kindly affected
towards them that are of one kind with ourselves.

Marcus Aurelius

It is the individual who is not interested in his or her fellow people
who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides
the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals
that all human failures spring.

Alfred Adler

People must not choose their neighbors; they must take
the neighbors that God sends them. The neighbor is just
the person who is next to you at the moment, the person
with whom any business has brought you into contact.

George Macdonald

We will recognize that each person needs to nourish and be nourished
by many persons. . . . It is right, even necessary, to make yourselves available
to one another in new loving, caring, and fulfilling ways --
without the spectres of old guilts.

Quaker newsletter

Our highest calling is to the world around us, to the
people with whom we share this world of ours. We learn
about life through our interactions with others, even if
that interaction is reading words written by others.
While life in a monastery or convent, shut off from
the rest of the world, may be right for some people,
we never get to know our potential and limitations if we
don't deal with other human beings, if we don't
do our "duty," which is the task before us.

tom walsh

I think we need to teach children the importance of others, and
that they cannot grow in this world without taking in others.
The more worlds they take in, these unique worlds, the more
they can become. We need to teach them to trust others again,
because we're all frightened to death of each other. We're building
higher and higher walls, stronger and stronger locks. Tear down
the walls! Every day I see how we're distrusting and it hurts.

Leo Buscaglia