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Wherever I go, bookstores are still the closest thing to a town square.
— Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road
The continuous work of our life,” says Montaigne, “is to build death.” He quotes the Latin poets: Prima, quae vitam dedit, hora corpsit. And again: Nascentes morimur. Man knows and thinks this tragic ambivalence which the animal and the plant merely undergo. A new paradox is thereby introduced into his destiny. “Rational animal,” “thinking reed,” he escapes from his natural condition without, however, freeing himself from it. He is still a part of this world of which he is a consciousness. He asserts himself as a pure internality against which no external power can take hold, and he also experiences himself as a thing crushed by the dark weight of other things. At every moment he can grasp the non-temporal truth of his existence. But between the past which no longer is and the future which is not yet, this moment when he exists is nothing. This privilege, which he alone possesses, of being a sovereign and unique subject amidst a universe of objects, is what he shares with all his fellow-men. In turn an object for others, he is nothing more than an individual in the collectivity on which he depends.
— Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity
The belonging you seek is not behind you. It is ahead.
— Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Were people to mingle only with those of like mind, every man would be an insulate being." Thomas Jefferson
— John Ferling, Jefferson and Hamilton: The Rivalry That Forged a Nation
Isolation is not a healthy ‘coping’ method, it’s like quarantining yourself in a gas chamber!
— Joshua Stannard
While never violating our uniqueness, we move together, united in heart and soul. Our greatness is unleashed in the context of community. When we move together, God is most perfectly revealed in us.
— Erwin Raphael McManus, The Barbarian Way: Unleash the Untamed Faith Within
Adams met with a convention on keeping the Sabbath and found the atmosphere surprisingly similar to that in Congress. Legalistic disputes so abounded that he found it difficult to keep order.
— Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
Our hatred of government is not caused mainly by government's goals, whatever their wisdom, but by government's techniques." Philip Howard
— George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Law, rather than harnessing the passions, is increasingly pressed into their service.
— George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
The church is a whore, but she is still my mother. Augustine
— Matt      Chandler, Creature of the Word: The Jesus-Centered Church
George Foreman looks as if he might have organically appeared out of the very ground around the church.
— Davis Miller, Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts
The Word, the Gospel, creates not just people individually but A people collectively
— Matt      Chandler, Creature of the Word: The Jesus-Centered Church
Washington DC is happiest when in indignation overdrive.
— George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
In true community we will not choose our companions, for our choices are so often limited by self-serving motives. Instead, our companions will be given to us by grace. Often they will be persons who will upset our settled view of self and world. In fact, we might define true community as that place where the person you least want to live with lives….Community will teach us that our grip on truth is fragile and incomplete, that we need many ears o hear the fullness of God’s word for our lives. And the disappointments of community life can be transformed by our discovery that the only dependable power for life lies beyond all human structures and relationships.In this religious grounding lies the only real hedge against the risk of disappointment in seeking community. That risk can be borne only if it is not community one seeks, but truth, light, God. Do not commit yourself to community, but commit yourself to God…In that commitment you will find yourself drawn into community.Parker Palmer, A Place Called Community, 1977
— Parker J. Palmer
Hence, when his name was casually mentioned by neighboring yeomen, the listener said, "Ah, Clym Yeobright: what is he doing now?' When the instinctive question about a person is, What is he doing? it is felt that he will not be found to be, like most of us, doing nothing in particular. There is an indefinite sense that he must be invading some region of singularity , good or bad. The devout home is that he is doing well. The secret faith is that he is making a mess of it...So the subject recurred: if he were making a fortune and a name, so much the better for him, if he were making a tragical figure in the world, so much the better for a narrative
— Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
Be the thermostat in your community, the one who makes a change. Not the thermometer who, just watches
— Mya Waechtler
All of them with their own lives, untouched by mine. Or each other's.
— Simon Beckett
Well, in the early days of humans, the community was our only protection against predators, and against the starvation. We survived because we trusted one another.
— Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
For every tree, we plant, we saves a life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
In our modern religion there is a reticence in speaking of our personal relationship to Jesus which often causes great loss. We forget that the majority of men are guided more by emotions than by intellect: the heart is the great power by which they are meant to be influenced and molded.
— Andrew Murray
The author concedes that the body of Christ may often judge wrongly , but he says that the judgment of the body as a whole is more sound that is one's ability to judge self objectively.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students
paying taxes is a cheap price for a quiet conscience—much cheaper than actually having to get involved in the lives of their fellow citizens.
— Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
Life is hard. Find some really good people to walk through it with. It makes things a little easier.
— Andrena Sawyer
In addition to an open heart and open mind, I also brought (to the small group Bible study) an open mouth.
— John Kasich, Every Other Monday: Twenty Years of Life, Lunch, Faith, and Friendship
Talk helps shape one's thoughts.
— David McCullough, The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
As a way of life, an act of love, an expression of faith, our hospitality reflects and anticipates God's welcome. Simultaneously costly and wonderfully rewarding, hospitality often involves small deaths and little resurrections. By God's grace we can grow more willing, more eager, to open the door to a needy neighbor, a weary sister or brother, a stranger in distress. Perhaps as we open that door more regularly, we will grow increasingly sensitive to the quiet knock of angels. In the midst of a life-giving practice, we too might catch glimpses of Jesus who asks for our welcome and welcomes us home.
— Christine Pohl
Noting the lack of crime or security in the Netherlands, the author asked a native who guarded a national landmark. He got the replay, "We all do.
— Bill Bryson, Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
A steady exposure to distant human need that is beyond our personal response can gradually inoculate us against particular action. . . Isolation from local need, and overexposure to overwhelming but distant need, make our responses to strangers uncertain and tentative at best.We need to find or create contemporary equivalents of the city gate, community rituals, and small group meetings in which we can build preliminary relations with strangers.
— Christine Pohl
The secular world often finds its constituents disenfranchised and solitary as it has spent a great deal of time debating the religious community while failing to build a true community of its own.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
We are a reminder to ourselves and others that we, as individuals and as a community, are stronger than we could have ever known until the moment we endured more than we previously thought possible.
— Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead
Nearly half of all associational memberships are church-religious context. Religious worshipers and people who say religion is very important to them are much more likely than other persons to visit friends, to entertain at home, to attend club meetings, and to belong to sports groups; professional and academic societies; school service groups; youth groups; service clubs; hobby or garden clubs; literary, art, discussion, and study groups; school fraternities and sororities; farm organization; political clubs; nationality groups; and other miscellaneous groups.
— Robert Putnam
We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
— César Chávez
Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction.
— C.S. Lewis
Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. JFK
— John F. Kennedy
The perfect state is one where men weep and rejoice over the same things.
— Plato
When we establish human connections within the context of sharedexperience we create community wherever we go.
— Gina Greenlee, Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road
Sartre felt that Hell is other people, but precisely the opposite is true. Hell is being left alone forever with no other reality than your own consciousness of yourself. It is being locked in a casket of your own internal chaos with no hope of a window, or door leading in light from outside to give you a moment's respite from yourself. Hell is the refusal of the gift of the other.
— John Eldredge, Killing Lions: A Guide Through the Trials Young Men Face
Create your own community of liberation. From this moment on, direct your most concerted efforts, your best work, and your greatest feats of imagination toward creating the impossible community, and do so first of all precisely where you are, with those around you.
— John P. Clark
A community of smashed up things and somehow everyone was willing to share the superglue
— Anissa Belkadi, Miniature Mausoleums
A father's aim is to raise children who themselves raise good citizens.
— Nicholas Dawidoff, The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg
An institution needs more than one person to survive.
— The Good Witch
The conscience is a communal organ—a way of knowing that we do with others formed always in reference to others.
— Ken Wilson, A Letter to My Congregation: An evangelical pastor's path to embracing people who are gay, lesbian and transgender in the company of Jesus
A healthy community is never a product of circumstances. It is rather a fruit of oneness in heart in the spirit of true neighbourhood.
— Newton Kibiringi
There is a great difference between successfulness and fruitfulness. Success comes from strength, control, and respectability. A successful person has the energy to create something, to keep control over its development, and to make it available in large quantities. Success brings many rewards and often fame. Fruits, however, come from weakness and vulnerability. And fruits are unique. A child is the fruit conceived in vulnerability, community is the fruit born through shared brokenness, and intimacy is the fruit that grows through touching one another's wounds. Let's remind one another that what brings us true joy is not successfulness but fruitfulness.
— Henri J.M. Nouwen, Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith
It is in fact an orderly community. The green plants are food for the plant eaters, which are food for the predators, and some of those predators are food for still other predators. And what's left over is food for the scavengers, who return to the earth nutrients needed by the green plants. It's a system that has worked magnificently for billions of years. Filmmakers understandably love footage of gore and battle, but any naturalist will tell you that the species are not in any sense at war with one another. The gazelle and lion are enemies only in the minds of the Takers. The lion that comes across a herd of gazelles doesn't massacre them as an enemy would. It kills one, not to satisfy its hatred of gazelles but to satisfy its hunger, and once it has made its kill the gazelles are perfectly content to go on grazing with the lion in the midst.
— Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
The body of Christ is about doing life together, and by doing life together sin is revealed.
— James MacDonald, Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth
There were millions of such families anxious only for peace and quiet in their own little nests. These were the mounting blocks by which the criminals climbed to power and kept it.
— Simon Wiesenthal
It was no accident that the beau ideal of his (John Adams') political philosophy was balance, since he projected onto the world the conflicting passions he felt inside himself and regarded government as the balancing mechanism that prevented those factions and furies from spending out of control.
— Joseph J. Ellis, Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
Had his own way of praying, he had said; that old excuse. As if we were meant to be solitary. As if the church were not about holding the community together, as this sinful one needed.
— Frances Mayes, Swan
The idea of Christian perfection, which began in the ancient monasteries and spread to the world as an ideal, is one of the most appealing, demanding and ultimately hopeless notions of the spiritual life. By definition, only God is perfect—that is, complete and independent unto [God’s] self. Humans, on the other hand, are radically imperfect, and that, paradoxically, is welcome news, for the recognition of our incompleteness throws us on the mercy of God and enables us, as Saint Paul stressed, to put up with one another’s faults.
— Donald Spoto, Reluctant Saint: The Life of Francis of Assisi
I never miss Meeting now," I said. "Do not look surprised. I have sent many a prayer heavenward on your behalf. And your father is not home yet. Your uncle sails under more danger of his own making. There is more to living in a town than I knew when you were young. Things have happened. It is important to go and to give to the poor and to keep in good graces with all who know us.""But you always said to trust your own heart.""That is true, son. I do not do this for trickery but to make myself known. If people have your acquaintance and friendship, they are not so quick to believe falsity.
— Nancy E. Turner
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
— Aldo Leopold
Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together, it is also a fundamental way of being in a community. It manifests the willingness to live in a collaborative way. This means that a future can be created without having to force or sell it or barter for it. When we believe that barter or subtle coercion is necessary, we are operating out of a context of scarcity and self-interest, the core currencies of the economist.
— Peter Block, Community: The Structure of Belonging
We are halves, but we make an infinite whole.
— Catherynne M. Valente
It is the community that suffers when it refuses to validate any outside standards, and won't allow even the legitimate exercise of authority by the professionals it has hired.
— Kathleen Norris, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
Practically, speaking up against street harassment is not about being a hero, getting credit points to be in the good books of a girl or a chance to impress anyone. It is about making sure that everyone has the right to enjoy that spring breeze, golden clouds and chirping without feeling uncomfortable.
— Shahla Khan, Friends With Benefits: Rethinking Friendship, Dating & Violence
We had started out caring about each other, but in the end none of us knew how to care for each other. But this experience taught me that a community based on the idea that everyone hates rules is, in the end, just as disappointing and oppressive as a community based on the ability to follow rules.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
Communion, by necessity, always leads us into community.
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
When the Stranger says: “What is the meaning of this city ?Do you huddle close together because you love each other?”What will you answer? “We all dwell togetherTo make money from each other”? or “This is a community”?Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger.Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.
— T.S. Eliot, The Rock
P57/8- one must seek to live with others in solidarity..only through communication can human life hold meaning.
— Paulo Freire
If the mystery of the Trinity is the template of all reality, what we have in the Trinitarian God is the perfect balance between union and differentiation, autonomy and mutuality, identity and community.
— Richard Rohr, Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation
Our task over the next few generations is to transform the world of independent states in which we live into some sort of genuine international community. If we succeed in creating that community, however quarrelsome, discontented, and full of injustice it probably will be, then we shall effectively have abolished the ancient institution of warfare. Good riddance.
— Gwynne Dyer, War: The New Edition
The great problem a mother has is not a lack of creativity, accomplishment, or skill, but her inability to love God and others as Jesus loves her.
— Gloria Furman, Treasuring Christ When Your Hands are Full: Gospel Meditations for Busy Moms
There is no commerce without community. And there is no community without commerce
— Michele Jennae
The purpose of this pamphlet is to explain how local currencies work. Alone they cannot solve all the multiple financial, social and environmental crises we face, but they are an increasingly important part of the answer.
— John Rogers, John Rogers
Friends, we have a hero living among us.
— Jorge Amado, Home is the Sailor
Seventy times seven" is a medicine for a healing community, not for a community with all the answers beforehand and all the appropriate punishments afterwards.
— Richard Rohr, Hope Against Darkness: The Transforming Vision of Saint Francis in an Age of Anxiety
Other generations faced big challenges: the Industrial Revolution with its sweeping social and economic changes
—  abolishing slavery
Maybe you care deeply about the environment or other global issues, or you feel strongly about your local region or community, but you just don't see how local money can help. I hope that this pamphlet will show you connections between what you care about and 'the money problem'.
— John    Rogers, Local Money: What Difference Does It Make?
We can always create enough of our own local money to handle all the trades and exchanges we wish to make. While national currency basically drives, and is driven by profit, local money supports people with other values: people who believe in local diversity, mutual help, treating people as assets instead of problems, valuing all types of work, creating strong social networks and protecting the environment. It is these people, their values and commitment that make local money systems work.
— John    Rogers, Local Money: What Difference Does It Make?
In these dangerous times, where it seems that the world is ripping apart at the seams, we all can learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day and [we] should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium.
— Jonathan Larson, Rent
You have no understanding of the warrior code at all. What you've done here proves it. You've risked the lives of young kits... by leaving them alone here. Anything could have happened to them. They could have been lost. They could have died. My kits could have died. But you didn't just betray me. You betrayed the entire Clan. You did all this... and you never considered how it would make any of us feel. The Clan is a family, Sol. A community. And you're incapable of thinking about anyone but yourself.
— Erin Hunter, After the Flood
The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.
— Georges Bataille
One woman is a tiny divine spark in a timeless sisterhood tapestry collective
— All of us are Wild Women.
Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won.
— Sara Sheridan, Brighton Belle
The truth is a community is as big or as small as your heart lets it be.
— Genevieve Dewey, The Good Life
That's my wish for our community, as it were, that during this very confusing and amazing time, we be gentle with ourselves, and with each other.
— Thea Hillman, Intersex
The betterment of a community directly depends on the betterment of lives in that Community.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Community is like a garden, it is an organic living thing; if it is neglected, it can overgrow with weeds and suffer decline. Communities must be actively maintained... all this activity is the lifeblood of culture, and this is where the essence of patriotic spirit and a sense of togetherness is born.
— Cory Bernardi, The Conservative Revolution
I dressed up like a crazy pharaoh for you, man!
— Troy Community
I dressed up like a crazy pharaoh you, man!
— Troy Community
Apparently, we have become such a hyper-individualized culture that it is impossible to develop an argument based on how individual cases fit into the fabric of the common good.
— David Brooks
The reality is, it takes daily cultivation of a spiritual path, preferably with spiritual kin in proximity, to sustain not the feeling of elation, but the focused, mindful path of steady growth.
— S. Kelley Harrell, Gift of the Dreamtime - Reader's Companion
Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay but the privilege of doing it. Remember, you don't live in a world all of your own.
— Albert Schweitzer
We live in a world where everything is connected. We can not longer think in terms of us and them when it comes to the consequences of the way we live. Today it's all about WE.
— Gregg Braden, The Turning Point: Creating Resilience in a Time of Extremes
A godly woman is beyond average because she keeps her word. She honors her vows. She exhibits great faith. She overcomes great obstacles. And she affects her family, her community, even the world.
— Elizabeth George, A Woman's Daily Walk with God
Our values call upon us to care about people we'll never meet.
— Barack Obama
Vann also came to realize something else. As offensive as the lack of cultural awareness in the office was, part of that deficit was his own. They didn’t understand him, but he didn’t understand them, either. (197)
— Tanner Colby, Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America
In the twenty-first century, the visions of J.C. Nichols and Walt Disney have come full circle and joined. “Neighborhoods” are increasingly “developments,” corporate theme parks. But corporations aren’t interested in the messy ebb and flow of humanity. They want stability and predictable rates of return. And although racial discrimination is no longer a stated policy for real estate brokers and developers, racial and social homogeneity are still firmly embedded in America’s collective idea of stability; that’s what our new landlords are thinking even if they are not saying it. (138)
— Tanner Colby, Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America
I think the common experience is that modern shamans are called by the spirits
—  we just don’t have a collective belief system or community that recognizes the calling for what it is.
That sense of contributing to a community is never more rewarding than when you discover something that you believe can improve your readers’ lives by changing what and how they think.
— Wayne C. Booth, The Craft of Research
And then they started deleting the protest reviews.That was my line. When they started to stamp out dissent, actually to make it disappear with virtually no excuse for doing so...that’s not neglect. That’s not an overwhelmed person or people trying to figure it out. That’s an entity that has decided that they do not care, that they have moved on from the issue, do not see it as an issue, and is trying to avoid bad press. Or they are too far down the line to backtrack on what they’ve been doing and save face. They’re content with their wildly inconsistent policy enough to no longer care what effect it is having on their user base. If you try to silence dissent, then something is very, very wrong.
— G.R. Reader, Off-Topic: The Story of an Internet Revolt
This is how we came by our factions: Candor, Erudite, Amity, Abnegation and Dauntless." Max smiles. "In them we find administrators and teachers and counselors and leaders and protectors. In them we find our sense of belonging, our sense of community, our very lives.
— Veronica Roth, The Transfer
Another site of Leftist struggle [other than Detroit] that has parallels to New Orleans: Palestine. From the central role of displacement to the ways in which culture and community serve as tools of resistance, there are illuminating comparisons to be made between these two otherwise very different places.In the New Orleans Black community, death is commemorated as a public ritual (it's often an occasion for a street party), and the deceased are often also memorialized on t-shirts featuring their photos embellished with designs that celebrate their lives. Worn by most of the deceased's friends and family, these t-shirts remind me of the martyr posters in Palestine, which also feature a photo and design to memorialize the person who has passed on. In Palestine, the poster's subjects are anyone who has been killed by the occupation, whether a sick child who died at a checkpoint or an armed fighter killed in combat. In New Orleans, anyone with family and friends can be memorialized on a t-shift. But a sad truth of life in poor communities is that too many of those celebrate on t-shirts lost their lives to violence. For both New Orleans and Palestine, outsiders often think that people have become so accustomed to death by violence that it has become trivialized by t-shirts and posters.While it's true that these traditions wouldn't manifest in these particular ways if either population had more opportunities for long lives and death from natural causes, it's also far from trivial to find ways to celebrate a life. Outsiders tend to demonize those killed--especially the young men--in both cultures as thugs, killers, or terrorists whose lives shouldn't be memorialized in this way, or at all. But the people carrying on these traditions emphasize that every person is a son or daughter of someone, and every death should be mourned, every life celebrated.
— Jordan Flaherty, Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six
A second line is in effect a civil rights demonstration. Literally, demonstrating the civil right of the community to assemble in the street for peaceful purposes. Or, more simply, demonstrating the civil right of the community to exist.
— Ned Sublette
Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, "What you are doing is none of my business" and "What I am doing is none of your business.
— George F. Will, One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation
A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community.
— Jerry Bridges, True Community: The Biblical Practice of Koinonia
I didn't really understand community until I moved to New Orleans.
— Jordan Flaherty, Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six
The historian assesses that the investment of the wealthy classes in the Bank of England wedded them to the fate of the nation as a whole and to the maintenance of its stability.
— Walter Russell Mead
Practice of true community involves responsibilities and actions that do not come naturally to us.
— Jerry Bridges, True Community: The Biblical Practice of Koinonia
Biblical community is first of all the sharing of a common life in Christ.
— Jerry Bridges, True Community: The Biblical Practice of Koinonia
A library is such a potent symbol of a town's values: each one closed down might as well be six thousand stickers plastered over every available surface, reading "WE CHOSE TO BECOME MORE STUPID AND DULL.
— Caitlin Moran
Is it not true that in ancient times the worst punishment of all was not death, but banishment?
— Jean Said Makdisi
Our present idea of freedom is only the freedom to do as we please: to sell ourselves for a high salary, a home in the suburbs, and idle weekends. But that is a freedom dependent upon affluence, which is in turn dependent upon the rapid consumption of exhaustible supplies. The other kind of freedom is the freedom to take care of ourselves and of each other. The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.
— Wendell Berry, The Hidden Wound
There is only one salvation for you: take yourself up, and make yourself responsible for all the sins of men. For indeed it is so, my friend, and the moment you make yourself sincerely responsible for everything and everyone, you will see at once that it is really so, that it is you who are guilty on behalf of all and for all. Whereas by shifting your own laziness and powerlessness onto others, you will end by sharing in Satan's pride and murmuring against God.The Brothers KaramazovBook VI - The Russian Monk, Chapter 3 - Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zosima.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I loved the different voices all singing one song, the various tones and qualities, the passing lifts of feeling, rising up and going out forever. Old Man Profet, who was a different man on Sunday, used to draw out the notes at the ends of verses so he could listen to himself, and in fact it sounded pretty.
— Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow
You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well considered that possibility myself, and am prepared o submit to correction by anybody who cares about a community, who can show me how the world is improved by that community's dying.
— Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow
Often I'll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there's no work to do on it. When I am filled with worries, I do that and I can feel the energy of the mountains and of the trees.
— Andy Couturier, A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance
Time is what we have in this life, and how we use it determines what our life is.
— Andy Couturier, A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance
The society that embraced him continued to prosper by stressing the family unit and their close-knit community. Hers prospered by forcigng independence and self-sufficiency.
— Sarah Price, Fields of Corn
My goal is to draw a line with some 'flavor' to it.
— Andy Couturier, A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance
No matter how alone you seem to be right now, just be aware that in this precise moment there are huge amounts of people who totally resonate with you, who share exactly your hopes and desires, who would be most happy to support you, just as you would be happy to support them. Be open to connect with them, and allow them to connect with you.
— Franco Santoro
I think all people want freedom, but they've got this idea inserted into their head about money.
— Andy Couturier, A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance
Finally Bill Mixter would lower his head, lay his bow upon the strings, and draw out the first notes of a tune, and the others would come in behind him. The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being. They would play some tunes they had learned on the radio, but their knowledge was far older than that and they played too the music that was native to the place, or that the people of the place were native to. Just the names of the tunes were a kind of music; they cal l back the music to my mind still, after so many years: "Sand Riffle," "Last Gold Dollar," "Billy in the Low Ground," "Gate to Go Through," and a lot of others. "A fiddle, now, is an atmospheric thing," said Burley Coulter. The music was another element filling the room and pouring out through the cracks. When at last they'd had their fill and had gone away, the shop felt empty, the silence larger than before.
— Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow
I finally understood that I couldn’t avoid working to provide for myself, but that can also be a wonderfulthing, a beautiful thing.
— Andy Couturier, A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance
Unity without uniformity, community without conformity.
— Mac MacKenzie
Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant.
— Andy Couturier
The Latino community anchored me, but I didn't want it to isolate me from the full extent of what Princeton had to offer, including engagement with the larger community. Page 148
— Sonia Sotomayor, My Beloved World
In the land of the rejected, the field is flattened, open to much oppurtunity. Here flourish the weeds and nonstandard quality alike. No one aspires, because there is no pinnacle to reach — just be better than whoever is next to you. It is basic, fundamental, and often rude, with bonus points for creative solution. Hardly ever about who you are, but how you do, it's "run what you brung" not Formula 1.
— Alec Mackaye
If you are a leader or someone who works for the interest of a community, first make sure that you understand the interest of the people who make up that community. In this way, you will have a good chance of minimizing, perhaps, avoiding the us versus them mentality.
— Duop Chak Wuol
To be a librarian is not to be neutral, or passive, or waiting for a question. It is to be a radical positive change agent within your community.
— R. David Lankes
Don't be so hard on yourself, don't put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you'll be perfect when you're dead.
— Dan  Harmon
My cat brought me a toy. I thanked her and threw it. She sat there gave me a look that made me realize people and dogs are the crazy ones.
— Dan  Harmon
All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive.
— Dan  Harmon
In practice it undermines the transformation of faith. When Christians concentrate their time and energy on their own separate spheres and their own institutions-whether all-absorbing megachurches, Christian yellow-page businesses, or womb-to-tomb Christian cultural ghettoes-they lose the outward thrusting, transforming power that is at the heart of the gospel. Instead of being 'salt' and 'light' -images of a permeating and penetrating action-Christians and Christian institutions become soft and vulnerable to corruption from within.
— Os Guinness, The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life
The dynamism of any diverse community depends not only on the diversity itself but on promoting a sense of belonging among those who formerly would have been considered and felt themselves outsiders.
— Sonia Sotomayor
I wish people used wishes to modify themselves instead of others. Wish to be low maintenance. Wish to be autonomous, even.
— Dan  Harmon
I expect the audience to assume TV is stupid. I accept that it's my job to overcome it.
— Dan  Harmon
You can't tell the audience — well, you can, but I don't like to tell the audience — that anything they're watching doesn't matter.
— Dan  Harmon
The goal of using our voice is not just to be noticed, but with humility to gracefully be fully present in relationships. Deferring to another person does not require that we be ignored; allowing that is cowardice. Hiding, a form of dishonesty, prevents true community.
— Rosalie De Rosset, Unseduced and Unshaken: The Place of Dignity in a Woman's Choices
Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it?
— Andy Couturier, A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance
We were breathing sooty air. The soot was composed of incinerated glass and steel but also, we knew, incinerated human flesh. When the local TV news announced that rescue workers sorting through the rubble in search of survivors were in need of toothpaste, half my block, having heard that there was finally something we could actually do besides worry and grieve, had already cleaned out the most popular brands at the corner deli by the time I got there, so at the rescue workers' headquarters I sheepishly dropped off fourteen tubes of Sensodyne, the toothpaste for sensitive teeth.We were members of the same body, breathing the cremated lungs of the dead and hoping to clean the teeth of the living.(Pg. 53)
— Sarah Vowell, The Wordy Shipmates
Garry Shandling has always been a pioneer of… meta entertainment. He's always been a defender of the creative right to use the frame as part of the painting.
— Dan  Harmon
Look at it this way—before any of this wood became parts of the shelves or the desk or the chair, all of it was in pieces—just pieces of wood. But the wood was full of potential. It could be shaped into anything that a carpenter wanted it to be shaped into, turning it into a beautiful finished product. Now, not all carpenters are equal in skill—you know that. If a piece of wood is shaped by a poor carpenter, the finished product will be lacking somehow, in some way."But if that wood is shaped by a master carpenter, then that piece will fit into this world precisely as it’s supposed to fit, whether it be a desktop or a cabinet shelf or a doorstop. And the way that I work wood is the way I try to work with people—with love and attention and caring—so that the wood and the people can reach their potential. And if someone lets you teach them, and is open to what you have to teach, then how can you go wrong?
— Tom Walsh
They have taken the idea of nonharming, of gentleness toward the earth, to a very radical level. Even the weeds are not enemies.
— Andy Couturier, A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance
As an introverted person, I struggle even writing about community because I know how difficult it often is for me to walk across the room to converse with people. People often drain the energy out of me, and too often I prefer to protect myself rather than engage in relationships with people. For some of us who are more extroverted, community is a way of life, yet I wonder how intentional even the most extroverted person is about making community a holiness-shaping thing. Community with God’s people ultimately shapes us to reflect more of who God is.
— Tyler Braun, Why Holiness Matters: We've Lost our Way--But We Can Find it Again
What art should do, I think, is advance the generation into the next era. It should be one step ahead of the ordinary, ahead of what is already known. Art is what pulls on the next age. I’m not saying that my art is that, but that it would be good if it could be.
— Andy Couturier, A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance
I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them.
— Andy Couturier, A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance
We may be little, insignificant servants in the eyes of a world motivated by efficiency, control and success. But when we realize that God has chosen us from all eternity, sent us into the world as the blessed ones, handed us over to suffering, can't we, then, also trust that our little lives will multiply themselves and be able to fulfill the needs of countless people?
— Henri J.M. Nouwen, Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World
She was drowning—in friendliness, in community—and she was starting to think she didn't want to get pulled out.
— Tricia Goyer, Love Finds You in Glacier Bay, Alaska
Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.
— D.T. Max, Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.
— Leon Krier, The Architecture of Community
The relationship between any two communities in the global economy is not unlike a marriage. As couples counselors advise, relationships falter when two partners are too interdependent. When any stress affecting one partner - the loss of a job, an illness, a bad-hair day - brings down the other, the couple suffers. A much healthier relationship is grounded in the relative strength of each partner, who each should have his or her own interests, hobbies, friends, and professional identity, so that when anything goes wrong, the couple can support one another from a position of strength. Our ability to love, like our ability to produce, must be grounded in our own security. And our economy, like our love, when it comes from a place of community, can grow without limit.
— Michael H. Shuman, The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition
I ponder the rhythms of letting go and embracing whatever is around the corner, trusting that the empty spaces will be filled. And knowing that sometimes community can happen only in the gaps where mystery resides.
— Joyce Hollyday
When I walked into the Christian section of a bookstore, the message was clear: Faith is something you do alone. Rick does not have much tolerance for people living alone. He’s like Bill Clinton in that he feels everyone’s pain. If Rick thinks somebody is lonely, he can’t sleep at night. He wants us all to live with each other and play nice so he can get some rest. Tortured soul.
— Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible reality. They determine the way in which we use or squander our energy, time, and land resources.
— Leon Krier
Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.
— Leon Krier, The Architecture of Community
If you’re an Orthodox believer, then what sustains this framework is the obligation that you follow. But if you live in a democratic, liberal world whose motto is: “Make choices and manage your choices according to what is good for you,” then there is a built-in tension between that which connects and that which divides. Between the material and the intellectual or ethical. Materialism is not a dirty word, but in this tension between the individual and the material on the one hand, and the communal and the ethical on the other, we are at the end of an age in which the material and the individual are triumphing.
— Kalid Gilad
Howard was almost as fond of this hall as he was of his own shop. The Brownies used it on Tuesdays, and the Women's Institute on Wednesdays. It had hosted jumble sales and Jubilee celebrations, wedding receptions and wakes, and it smelled of all of these things: of stale clothes and coffee urns, and the ghosts of home-baked cakes and meat salads; of dust and human bodies; but primarily of aged wood and stone.
— J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy
Superabundant piety/righteousness (and its practices) is that form of life that enhances the individual and the community simultaneously.
— Michael Joseph Brown
The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.
— Leon Krier, The Architecture of Community
There is no need for us all to be alike and think the same way, neither do we need a common enemy to force us to come together and reach out to each other. If we allow ourselves and everyone else the freedom to fully individuate as spiritual beings in human form, there will be no need for us to be forced by worldly circumstances to take hands and stand together. Our souls will automatically want to flock together, like moths to the flame of our shared Divinity, yet each with wings covered in the glimmering colors and unique patterns of our individual human expression.
— Anthon St. Maarten
Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.
— Audre Lorde
This is a world of the hunters and the hunted, signorina. Tonight you are the prey and I am the hunter!
— Mehmet Murat ildan, Award Winning Plays -2
My kingdom not for a horse, but for a good piece of advice!
— Mehmet Murat ildan, The Beggar's Prophecy
If a moneyed man had a “corny mind”, a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen!
— Mehmet Murat ildan, William Shakespeare
A man without money is like a windmill left without the wind, don’t you ever forget this!
— Mehmet Murat ildan, William Shakespeare
In a conservative old town, say something new and be prepared for the stones!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are good at building bridges, you will never fall into the abyss!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Every long separation is a test: A test to see how powerful or how weak the will of reuniting is!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
On the matters where your country is wrong, don’t take side with your country! Because it is always wrong to be on the side of wrong!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Don’t look for trouble, because troubles look for being found by those who look for them!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Every time you do goodness, you rise to the summit of humanity!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
We cannot allow the badness to be triumphant on earth because we do not have a spare world!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Do not underrate others, do not underrate yourself, and do not underrate anything! Do not overrate others, do not overrate yourself, and do not overrate anything!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Storms are good friends because they light up the way to wisdom!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Refuse to seek for the road to paradise, because every beautiful place is already a paradise!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Every morning brings thousands of opportunities
—  and thousands of perils too! Life is open to all the possibilities that a man can not even imagine!
In every different house, the same things are spoken, the same lies are said, the same dreams are dreamed!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
A well educated man with an independent mind is a type of man liked by no government!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Every right quote is a golden stair to enlightenment!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub,For in this sleep of death what dreams may come...
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet
It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes
I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
— Banksy
Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying
— Gerard Way