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You don't live in a world all alone.
Your brothers and sisters are here, too.
Albert Schweitzer |
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Years ago I recognized my
kinship with all living things, and I
made up my
mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest
on the earth. I said
then and I say now, that while there is a
lower class, I am in it; while there
is a criminal element,
I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
Eugene V. Debs |
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Many
people do not know that they can strengthen or diminish
the life around them.
The way we live day to day simply may not
reflect back to us our power to influence life or the web of
relationships
that connects us.
Life responds to us anyway.
We all have the power
to affect others.
We may affect those we know and those we do not even
know at all. . . . Without our knowing, we may influence
the lives of others in very simple ways.
Rachel Naomi Remen |
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For nothing is
fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed;
the earth
is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea
does not
cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born,
and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses
they have.
The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to
each other, and children cling to us.
The moment we cease to
hold each other, the moment we break faith
with one another, the sea
engulfs us and the light goes out.
James Baldwin
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Each
person takes care that their neighbor shall not cheat them.
But a day comes when we begin to care that we do not cheat our
neighbors.
Then all goes well. We
have changed our market-cart into a chariot of the sun.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson |
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Since
you are an integral
part of a social system,
let every act
of yours
contribute to the harmonization
of social
life. Any action
that is not related directly
or remotely to this social aim
disturbs your life, and
destroys your unity.
Marcus
Aurelius |
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Not
until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions
of life
for all people are recognized and accepted as a
common obligation of all of us. . . shall we be able
to speak of humankind as civilized.
Albert Einstein
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The
salvation of humankind lies only in making everything the concern of
all.
Alexander Solzhenitsyen |
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Always
follow these two rules:
first, act only on what your reasoning mind proposes
for the good of humanity, and second, change your opinion if someone
shows
you it’s wrong.
This change of mind must proceed only from the conviction that
it’s
both correct and for the common good, but not because it will give you
pleasure and make you popular.
Marcus Aurelius |
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The central purpose of each life should be to
dilute the misery in the world.
Karl Menninger |
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| An old rabbi
once asked his pupils how they could tell when the night had ended
and the day had begun.
"Could it be,"
asked one of the students, "when you can see an animal in the
distance and tell whether it's a sheep or a dog?"
"No," answered
the rabbi.
Another asked, "Is it
when you can look at a tree in the distance and tell whether it's
a fig tree or a peach tree?"
"No," answered
the rabbi.
"Then when is
it?" the pupils demanded.
"It is when you can
look on the face of any man or woman and see that it is your
sister or brother. Because if you cannot see this, it is
still night."
Hasidic tale |
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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile
things,
but just look at what they can do when they stick together.
Vesta M. Kelly |
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Treat
people and live amongst them in such a way so that when you
die they will
cry over you, and while you are alive they long for your
company.
traditional
Muslim saying |
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I
am a creature of God and my neighbor is also a creature of
God.
I work in the city and my neighbor lives in the country.
I rise early for my work and my neighbor rises early for work.
Just as my neighbor cannot excel in my work,
I cannot excel in my neighbor's work.
Will you say that I do great things and my neighbor does small
things?
We have learned that it does not matter whether a person does
much or little as long as one directs one's heart to Heaven.
from
the Babylonian Talmud |
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| A
traveler came to the gates of a new city and asked the
gatekeeper, "What kind of people live here?"
The
gatekeeper answered with a question of his own,
"What kind of people lived in the city you just
came from?"
The
traveler replied, "They were mostly a
cantankerous lot, greedy and self-centered."
The
gatekeeper answered, "I expect you will find the
people here just the same."
Soon
after, another traveler met the gatekeeper and asked
the same question. Again the gatekeeper asked,
"How did you find the residents of the city you
visited last?"
The
traveler answered enthusiastically, "They were
warm and hospitable; truly a fine group of
people."
The
gatekeeper responded, "I expect you will find
these folk just the same."
Christina
Feldman |
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One exemplary act may affect one life, or even
millions of lives. All those
who set standards for themselves, who strengthen the bonds of
community, who
do their work creditably and accept individual responsibility,
are building
the common future.
John W. Gardner |
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One
aspect of true community is that we respond to the needs of
another
within our own capabilities. Living in a community
consciously, responsibly,
and actively provides opportunities for growing naturally in
compassion.
Living compassionately in a community means that we care not
only about our
own advancement, materially as well as spiritually, but also
about the well-being
of all members, including those at the bottom. Those at
the so-called bottom
may be far more spiritually rich than those with whom we
aspire to consort. . . .
there is no limit to how we conceive the expanse of community,
only our own thinking.
Michael
Goddart |
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None
of us come into the world fully formed. We would not
know how to
think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we
learned it
from other human beings. We need other human beings in
order to be human.
I am because other people are.
Desmond Tutu |
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This is the true joy of life, the being used
up for a purpose recognized by yourself
as a mighty one; 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.
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 |
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The
community stagnates without the impulse of the individual.
The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
William James |
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