Important quotes about Community

CHINESE PROVERB:

One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW:

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.

M. SCOTT PECK:

There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

MARGARET MEAD:

Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

MARIANNE WILLIAMSON:

In every community there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON:

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

RUMI:

Come out of the circle of time
And into the circle of love.

SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR:

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone ... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.

SIMONE WEIL:

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?"

TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS:

I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture. In the desert, change is nurtured even in stone by wind, by water, through time.

VIRGINIA WOOLF:

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

WILLIAM PICKENS:

Living together is an art.

speech, meeting of Congregationalists, Oak Park, Illinois, November 2, 1932