Community quotations

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◆ Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot but don't talk about it; they are the ones who make a community live.

- Jean Vanier99

◆ You make a difference about your life it's a knock on the head of mind setting your life you see the stars they shine across the way you build a bridge you make it shine the only way to make a difference is to help the community!

- Demi Lovato99

◆ One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't as individuals. When we pool our strength and share the work and responsibility, we can welcome many people, even those in deep distress, and perhaps help them find self-confidence and inner healing.

- Jean Vanier99

◆ Community is a sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either ignore or fight each other. It is a sign that we don't need a lot of money to be happy--in fact, the opposite.

- Jean Vanier99

◆ To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

- Bertrand Russell99

◆ To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination.

- Bell Hooks99

◆ The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.

- Wendell Berry99

◆ The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.

- Tony Kushner99

◆ A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.

- Andrew Carnegie99

◆ Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.

- Orson Scott Card99

◆ Unless today is well lived, tomorrow is not important.

- Alan Sakowitz99

◆ Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man's inhumanity to man.

- Aberjhani99

◆ A community is only being created when its members accept that they are not going to achieve great things, that they are not going to be heroes, but simply live each day with new hope, like children, in wonderment as the sun rises and in thanksgiving as it sets. Community is only being created when they have recognized that the greatness of man is to accept his insignificance, his human condition and his earth, and to thank God for having put in a finite body the seeds of eternity which are visible in small and daily gestures of love and forgiveness. The beauty of man is in this fidelity to the wonder of each day.

- Jean Vanier99

◆ If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.

- Greg Mortenson99

◆ We are not divided by our differences; We are united by our passions.

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