Community Quotes

We don't heal in isolation, but in community.

S Kelley Harrell

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 Vanier

Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.

Alice Waters

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

Wendell Berry

That which is not good for the swarm, neither is it good for the bee.

Marcus Aurelius

Cultivate your crew.

Fiona Killackey

Community is not an ideal; it is people. It is you and I. In community we are called to love people just as they are with their wounds and their gifts, not as we want them to be.

Jean Vanier

If the community you seek isn’t around you, create it.

We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity even if we must manufacture it from our time on the Web and our use of calling cards to connect long distance. We must "log on" somewhere, and if it is only in cyberspace, that is still far better than nowhere at all.

Julia Cameron

Community is composed of that which we don't attempt to measure, for which we keep no record and ask no recompense.

Dee Hock

Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet today the institutions on which community depends are crumbling in all the techno-societies. The result is a spreading plague of loneliness.

Alvin Toffler

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.

Dorothy Day

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

Henrik Ibsen

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 Vanier

One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.

Shannon L Alder

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual; the impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

William James

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

Hebrews 10:25

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Kurt Vonnegut

Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.

Orson Scott Card

We have been born to associate with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

Cicero

A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other's lives.

Wendell Berry

It feels good to be in a community. Community, above all, is bigger than individuals - we are something much more than individuals when we are part of a community. And this is how things ought to be.

Tony Blackshaw

Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom.

D H Lawrence

Community is a manifestation of God in the world, a picture on Earth of a divine relationship.

Heidi Campbell

I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a contradiction in terms.

Wendell Berry

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

Goethe