355 Community Quotes: Belonging & Togetherness

A Christian community should do as Jesus did: propose and not impose. Its attraction must lie in the radiance cast by the love of brothers.” – Jean Vanier

A Christian’s mentality should be radically different from that of others in the community” – Sunday Adelaja

A community best serves itself when it truly serves the awakening of the unique story trying to come to life through each person born.” – Michael Meade

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A community narrows down and grows dreadful ignorant when it is shut up to its own affairs, and gets no knowledge of the outside world except from a cheap, unprincipled paper.” – Sarah Orne Jewett

A community of smashed up things and somehow everyone was willing to share the superglue” – Anissa Belkadi

A community that is growing rich and seeks only to defend its goods and its reputation is dying. It has ceased to grow in love. A community is alive when it is poor and its members feel they have to work together and remain united, if only to ensure that they can all eat tomorrow!” – Jean Vanier

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 growing community must integrate three elements: a life of silent prayer, a life of service and above all of listening to the poor, and a community life through which all its members can grow in their own gift.” – Jean Vanier

A hand gets way cleaner from washing, not itself, but the other hand.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

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 Carnegie

A man’s value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.” – Albert Einstein

A person could waste an important part of his living if he refuses to come into significance; if he refuses to impact lives around, the family and in the community or in the society.” – Sunday Adelaja

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

A sustainable local economy is one that enables the local community to be sustainable in all of its aspects in the long run. If the local economy is not sustainable, its future has been traded away – literally – to people at a distance, for the proverbial bowl of stew.” – Peter Denton

A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community.” – Jerry Bridges

A worshiping community should be the fountain from which life flows and the ocean into which your efforts are merged. That is where identity is defined, refined, and consolidated and where continuity remains.” – Ravi Zacharias

According to W. Hantand, diffusion is the borrowing of certain cultural element from one community to another community” – Sunday Adelaja

All community is in some way imagined” – Stan Grant

All struggle, all resistance is – must be – concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now, then soon. Elsewhere as well as here.” – Susan Sontag

All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing and the like..I think we need to be wary: we need to work against the danger of evoking something that we don’t challenge ourselves to actually practice.” – Bell Hooks

Allow the way to your great work to be guided by your service to others.” – Mollie Marti

Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much” – Helen Keller

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An enlightened person raises the level of the consciousness of the entire community.” – Phyllis Theroux

And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep going on, they overlap and blur, your story is part of your sister’s story is part of many other stories, and there is no telling where any of them may lead.” – Erin Morgenstern

As a community, we still emphasized the importance of familial ties but finally understood that the definition of family wasn’t about blood or even who or what you’d lost. It was about what gave you hope and who was willing to get involved.” – Mike Chen

As I look back over my mountains of growth and compare them to the molehills where I stagnated, community often made the difference.” – Mary E. DeMuth

As part of humanity, each of us is called to develop and share the unique gifts we are given.” – Mollie Marti

As the voices fall silent, the individuals who make up the amorphous and always changing community must decide for themselves, as they always have. I can’t write a coda because I can’t speak for others. I can only and ever speak for myself.” – G.R. Reader

As we search for a less extractive and polluting economic order, so that we may fit agriculture into the economy of a sustainable culture, community becomes the locus and metaphor for both agriculture and culture.” – Wes Jackson

As you and I take Personal Responsibility for mending the things that are out of order in our community and nation in general, we would surely witness a transformed, developed and civilized society.” – Sunday Adelaja

As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls.” – Sonia Sotormayor

Aside your dreams to improve your community, country and continent, dare to save a soul for God. Show compassion, show love… Feed hungry souls and let God be glorified!” – Israelmore Ayivor

Be bold! Step out of your comfort zone, burn down the stereotypes, the labels, the categories, and build a community.” – Kaylee Stepkoski

Be the thermostat in your community, the one who makes a change. Not the thermometer who, just watches.” – Mya Waechtler

Be transparent. Let’s build a community that allows hard questions and honest conversations so we can stir up transformation in one another.” – Germany Kent

Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.” – Shannon L. Alder

Benedict sets up a community, a family. And families, the honest among us will admit, are risky places to be if perfection is what you are expecting in life.” – Joan D. Chittister

Biblical community is first of all the sharing of a common life in Christ.” – Jerry Bridges

Books are family. Books are community.” – Danielle Binks

But if you want to be a true professional, you will do something outside yourself, something to repair tears in your community, something to make life a little better for people less fortunate than you.” – Charmaine J. Forde

But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.” – Bell Hooks

By connecting and being part of a community with a shared vision and goals, we can create great things.” – David J. Greer

By placing attention on what it is like to walk in another’s shoes, we step outside of ourselves and into a never-ending community.” – Amy Leigh Mercree

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Character means everything that is human about you… Character means a sense of community – character means a desire for learning and growth – character means the guts to admit and mend one’s own errors and shortcomings – character means the yearning for assimilation.” – Abhijit Naskar

Christ Jesus dwell in the hearts of a community of faith.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.” – Rollo May

Communion, by necessity, always leads us into community.” – Ann Voskamp

Community is a context and can either facilitate or inhibit the movement of change for the individual.” – Sharon Weil

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

Community is about sharing my life; about allowing the chaos of another’s circumstances to infringe on mine; about permitting myself to be known without constraint; about resigning myself to needing others.” – Sandy Oshiro Rosen

Community is composed of that which we don’t attempt to measure, for which we keep no record and ask no recompense. Most are things we cannot measure no matter how hard we try.” – Dee Hock

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

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

Concern for the people should burn like the fire of God in your veins.” – Abhijit Naskar

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

Creating the kind of connections between people that lead to collective civic action, political expression, community dialogue, shared cultural experiences.” – Giovanni Morassutti

Culture was actually humanity’s attempt to extend the womb.” – Christopher Dawson

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Community: Irrationals unified by hope of the impossible.” – Idries Shah

Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.” – Jinato Hu

Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.” – Jacqueline Woodson

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.” – Malcolm Forbes

Educate a boy, and you educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.” – Adelaide Hoodless

Enjoyable social interaction, community and laughter has a healing effect on the mind and body.” – Bryant McGill

Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community.” – Jean Vanier

Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.” – Orson Scott Card

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Excessive gentrification destroys the biodiversity and ecosystem of a community.” – Khang Kijarro Nguyen

For me the very essence of the Person-Centred Approach is about individuality, which leads to a community of acceptance characterised by difference.” – Terry Daly

God loves to defend his reputation. We we pray together, our needs become public. When he answers, his glory becomes public.” – Jamie Dunlop

God never taught us to live like TV dinners in a freezer: together, but totally separate.” – Jayce O’Neal

God shall not know the politics of caste and community” – Sir P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

Gossip is an imperative evolutionary characteristic that enables a community to stand strong and united.” – Abhijit Naskar

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

Happiness is good, but well-overrated: what we hate most are the very motivators that put us in gear. A man drifts along with little to contribute until something agitates him enough to make a difference, whether for himself or for his communities.” – Criss Jami

He who loves his dream of a community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his persona intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

He who masters the power formed by a group of people working together has within his grasp one of the greatest powers known to man.” – Idowu Koyenikan

Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation.” – Wendell Berry

Heaven on Earth has half of its life reconciled, with its better, lesser or equal half and, with a little of every life in community!” – Kamini Arichandran

Human beings long for connection, and our sense of usefulness derives from the feeling of connectedness. When we are connected – to our own purpose, to the community around us, and to our spiritual wisdom – we are able to live and act with authentic effectiveness.” – Michael Meade

Human connection is based on trust, and it is trust that is continually violated when people do not practice setting aside their narrow self-interests in consideration of the needs and interests of others, such as their coworkers, family, neighbours, and community.” – Diane Kalen-Sukra

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” – Mother Teresa

I am a woman with wings,’ I once wrote and will revise these words again. ‘I am a woman with wings dancing with other women with wings.’ In a voiced community, we all flourish.” – Terry Tempest Williams

I am an individual and I respect my own individuality. But I am an individual and a member of a community. And a community has conditions. All the commandments – Thou Shalt Not – are about community” – Julius Nyerere

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole 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.” – George Bernard Shaw

I am responsible for the thing I do not what my community or religion does.” – merlin8thomas

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

I grew up in libraries, and I hope I’ve learned never to take them for granted. A thriving library is the heart of its community, providing access to information and educational opportunities, bringing people together, leveling the playing field, and archiving our history.” – Josie Brown

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort, where we overlap.” – Ani DiFranco

I love seeing our community trying to build a dream to make something out there self , growing there own business, I be hype as a mug . Like keep going baby . I salute ya” – Shaneika Marie

I make myself open and available, as a ‘Keeper of the Light,’ to shine it brightly upon myself and others as I help my community with loving, positive energy.” – Andrew Lutts

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.” – S. Kelley Harrell

I want to bring out the best in a community and contribute something of permanent value.” – I.M. Pei

I want to make it clear to the high altitude astronomy community: We are not friends.” – Steven Magee

I want very much to live among my people, to learn who they are, now that I know with at least an uncertain certainty who I am.” – Ursula K. Le Guin

I would have been trying to pitch a concept about my community to someone that most likely was not a part of that community.” – Lamar Tyler

If each community clean it’s surroundings, the country will be clean.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

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If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life’s exciting variety, not something to fear.” – Gene Roddenberry

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

If we stretch ourselves to open our minds, to see our shared humanity with others, we allow ourselves to see the existence of community and generosity in unexpected places.” – Sharon Salzberg

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

If you find a community with less production and less inspiring inventions, then know it is a sign of lack of Business Leaders and full of General Managers do not know what they can manage or what they are managing.” – Sameh Elsayed

If you have committed all things to impacting a life at a time, or impacting a community or society, then welcome to a life of significance.” – Sunday Adelaja

If you look at every flower individually, they look quite miserable. Put them together in a vase and they become a bouquet and that’s quite attractive. I think about our community often in that way” – Henri J.M. Nouwen

If you spend eight hours of your day at work, and eight hours at home, there is no reason why your workplace should be any less of a community than your home.” – Sara Ishikawa

If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.” – Greg Mortenson

If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb

In a free enterprise, the community is not just another stakeholder in business, but is in fact the very purpose of its existence.” – Jamsetji Tata

In community we are called to care for each member of the community. We can. Choose our friends but we do not choose our brothers and sisters’ they are given to us, whether in family or in community.” – Jean Vanier

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. – Marianne Williamson

In modern societies, some members of ethnic minority groups do not want to feel compelled to heed the voices of their communities when participating as citizens.” – Michael Kenny

In my opinion, the state of mind of a community is always directly due to the influence of the man at the top.” – Agatha Christie

In our community, we have a duty to strengthen the weakest among us to build a better society.” – Bill Courtney

In solitude we discover that community is not a common ideology, but a response to a common call.” – Henri J.M. Nouwen

In the Christian tradition, transformation always necessitates belonging, membership of a new, transformative, community” – Alex Clare-Young

Indeed, I would not achieve the integration I sought until I found two nutrients essential to so many survivors. First, I found community and then I found a way to contribute.” – Sue Klebold

Integrity is a powerful force, keeping you alive to others long after you’ve left their presence.” – Mollie Marti

Interest and enthusiasm are the wellspring of continually evolving community life: they create bonds which unite us whether we are young or old, nearby or far from each other; they allow human warmth and love to be the formative forces in personal and community life and striving.” – Henning Hansmann

Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?” – Desmond Tutu

Isolation is at the heart of all disease, therefore healing requires community and the support of others.” – Sharon Weil

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It doesn’t take a village. Rather, it takes the God Who created the village.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is absolutely scandalous that the astronomical community are trying to build the world’s largest telescope atop the known biologically toxic very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea.” – Steven Magee

It is explicit that chieftains profit from abomination, but the merit of their authority is that the community also benefit. Illicit behavior is kept at a low limit making for a close knit unit.” – Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

It is hard for us to recognize it now, but Peter and Paul were introducing the first Christian family to an entirely new community, a community that transcends the rigid hierarchy of human institutions, a community in which submission is mutual and all are free.” – Rachel Held Evans

It is in community where we find our very selves.” – Chris Matakas

It is not more bigness that should be our goal. We must attempt, rather, to bring people back to the warmth of community, to the worth of individual effort and responsibility, and of individuals working together as a community, to better their lives and their children’s future.” – Robert F. Kennedy

It is not the fact that we are united in common goals or purposes that makes us a community. Rather, it is the fact that we share a common life in Christ.” – Jerry Bridges

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

It was a train full of strangers, and they were all the same.” – Cherie Priest

It was like watching a community you thought you knew reveal itself as something else.” – Timothy B. Tyson

It will be interesting to see how Steven Magee versus the international astronomical community works out.” – Steven Magee

It’s so important to have a genuine human regard for the people who work for you. To be a person of integrity, fight for people when they aren’t in the room, and do what you say you’re going to do.” – Ara Tucker

I’m proud of the culture I come from – we’re a small country and a close-knit community.” – Sara Sheridan

Kindness kindles kinship and kinship kindles a sense of community.” – Abhijit Naskar

Knowledge is power and at the end of the day, our health, the health of our children, the health of our community, and the health of Mother Earth is our responsibility. Therefore, it is imperative that we understand the human and environmental affects of the products that we buy.” – Obiora Embry

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. He will only do harm to himself and to the community. But the reverse is also true: Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Let your community be your testimony.” – Jaco Strydom

Life is a delicate balance between the idea that we need others for almost everything and the striking reality that nobody owes you anything!” – Curtis Tyrone Jones

Live life so well that, even if you die, the empty seats behind you will tell the story that,yea, this soul did what God sent him/her to do”. Give life and hope into your family, village, community, country, continent and the world at large. You can do it!” – Israelmore Ayivor

Love for all and everyone around because we’re all stumbling or succeeding back and forth, every day, and I want more community. I want helpers and guidance. Am I helping someone?” – Charlotte Eriksso

Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops.” – Sara Sheridan

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 Vanier

Many people seek fellowship because they are afraid to be alone… let him who cannot be alone beware of community. He will do harm to himself and to the community. Alone you stood before God when he called you; alone you had to answer that call; alone you had to struggle and pray; and alone you will die and give an account to God. You cannot escape yourself, for God has singled you out.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Mistakes were made. Bodies were broken. People were enslaved. We meant well. We tried our best.Good intention” is a hall pass through history, a sleeping pill that ensures the Dream.” – Ta-Nehisi Coates

Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.” – Sebastian Junger

My life’s work is to help people step into their God-given abilities and make a positive difference in their community.” – Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

My message to the high altitude astronomy community is this: You need to start abiding by the laws and regulations of the government and stop the abuse and harassment of workers.” – Steven Magee

Nearly every inspirational story out there is about a person who breaks away from his or her background or community – where the best is clearly defined and is not them – and goes off and becomes the best somewhere else.” – Amrita Sarkar

Network gives you reach… Community gives you power!” – Ted Rubin

Networks connect… Communities Care!” – Ted Rubin

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Never forget that people need what you need and people need what you have.” – Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

No amount of community policing will cause the common people to accept a known corrupt police department.” – Steven Magee

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main” – John Donne

None of us can accomplish our dreams without the help of others. Is it more important for you to feel superior and self-sufficient than to accomplish your dreams within a community of supporters?” – Nick Vujicic

Offering sanctuary is a revolutionary act; it expresses love, when others offer scorn or hate. It recognizes humanity, when others deny and seek to debase it. Sanctuary says ‘we’ rather than ‘I’. It is belonging – the building block of community.” – Diane Kalen-Sukra

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.” – Stendhal

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

One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city – as I once did for a couple of years.” – Edward Abbey

One thing I have seen spread faster than coronavirus: Connection – with family, friends, and our communities.” – Charles F. Glassman

Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible.” – Karl Marx

Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.” – Deitrich Bonhoeffer

Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place.” – Natalie Portman

Peace in the home is the peace for the community.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

People are living books. The real library of life is community.” – Bryant McGill

People are never truly alone or separate from community, and cannot be.” – Ichiro Kishimi

People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices” – Alfie Kohn

Practice of true community involves responsibilities and actions that do not come naturally to us.” – Jerry Bridges

Press on our spirits HOW to love each other, HOW to serve each other, HOW to comfort each other.” – Nicole Williams

Pseudocommunity is conflict-avoiding: true community is conflict-resolving.” – M. Scott Peck

Puppies are born with the genes for love, but it still takes a village to raise a loving dog.” – Clive D.L. Wynne

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary to learn the story of God.” – Stanley Hauerwas

Separation from the community creates isolation. Isolation is the source of most physical, emotional and spiritual disease.” – Sharon Weil

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

Sin demands to have a man by himself. It withdraws him from the community. The more isolated a person is the more attractive will be the power of sin over him, and the more deeply he becomes involved in it, the more disastrous is his isolation.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Single Christians living in purity and community are billboards for the sufficiency of Jesus.” – Peter Hubbard

Soccer isn’t the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community’s fabric, a repository of traditions.” – Franklin Foer

Societies and communities change – dictionaries are rewritten; people and ideas die off. The point is for us to develop so much that when we outgrow the awareness of the community, we willfully reach back to pull others forward with our knowledge.” – Ross Victory

Some of the things you will remember after the plague of corona virus; the people you have the power to feed or help but you never did, how you wickedly jack up prices of commodities, and your efforts to silence the voice of conscience.” – Bamigboye Olurotimi

Some people think they are in community, but they are only in proximity. True community requires commitment and openness. It is a willingness to extend yourself to encounter and know the other.” – David Spangler

Strength has no meaning unless it is used in the service of the weak. One stick may be snapped but the bundle is the community, and the community will never break.” – Stephen Hunt

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities” – Stephen R. Covey

Success is not measured by what you have. It’s measured by what you give.” – Crystal Alexis Ingram

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

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

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

The absence of conditions for self-realization in a country, region and community leads to stagnation, social and economic crisis” – Sunday Adelaja

The act of claiming an identity can be transformational. It can provide healing and empowerment. It can weld solidarity within a community. And, perhaps most importantly, it can diminish power from an oppressor, a dominant group.” – Simon Tam

The astronomical community need to start acknowledging jet aircraft contrails to be the problem that they really are!” – Steven Magee

The betterment of a community directly depends on the betterment of lives in that Community.” – Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

The closest natural area to you is the wild, naturally intelligent biological community within you.” – Michael J. Cohen

The community of humanity is actually a support system that secures, reinforces and empowers each person in it.” – Andrew Lutts

The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character.” – Wendell Berry

The Cross is the eternal expression of the length to which God will go to in order to restore broken community.” – Martin Luther King

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 Sotormayor

The emphasis on doing everything together, rather than on the individualistic ‘I can do it myself, thank you,’ creates strong bonds to family and community. Decisions are made within the group setting.” – Synnove Mitchell

The essence of community, its heart and soul, is the non-monetary exchange of value; things we do and share because we care for others, and for the good of the place.” – Dee Hock

community chang quotes

The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.” – Wendell Berry

The global village is illusory at best – and, at worst, is evidence of delusion on a global scale. We live in the village – the community – where our home happens to be.” – Peter Denton

The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.” – Mahatma Gandhi

The GR site has acquired its market value through the work of its community.” – G.R. Reader

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.” – Coretta Scott King

The idea that we can be exactly what the other desires is a powerful fantasy.” – Sherry Turkle

The international astronomy community are making it clear that they intend to keep on inducing High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) into their very high altitude workers.” – Steven Magee

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.” – Sonia Sotomayor

The minute we become an integrated whole, we look through the same eyes and we see a whole different world together.” – Azizah Al-Hibri

The modern American is starved for trust, a sense of community, and a personal connection; these desires are revealed by viewing modern advertising.” – Zachariah Renfro

The more people that meet each other, the better it is for all of them.” – Fletcher Pratt

The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.” – Mark Hyman

The principles of godliness must be ensured to be received by all in the community, city and the nation, even by the young and old.” – Sunday Adelaja

The professional astronomy community should affectionately think of me as their law enforcement officer.” – Steven Magee

The real education is when you awaken and nourish and guide the inner spirit, this inner genius. The community grows from the giving of the gifts of the people in it, which is really giving from the genius.” – Michael Meade

The reason why we don’t progress or there are no job opportunities in our community and society is because ,when you start a business and people wish for it to fail. That some will do everything in their power to make it fail. They don’t support it but they destroy it.” – De philosopher DJ Kyos

The same process that makes AA so effective – the power of a group to teach individuals how to believe – happens whenever people come together to help one another change. Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.” – Charles Duhigg

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

The sense of community is that feeling of togetherness that brings us comfort. We are all alone in the world, so we strive to form bonds with others to eliminate that sense of feeling alone.” – Del Suggs

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 Kushner

community college quotes

The society that embraced him continued to prosper by stressing the family unit and their close-knit community. Hers prospered by forcing independence and self-sufficiency.” – Sarah Price

The time to act is not when everyone else does. The time to act is when everyone else has chosen not to.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough

The truth is a community is as big or as small as your heart lets it be.” – Genevieve Dewey

The vampire community has enough problems. We don’t need to add petty backbiting to it.” – Thomm Quackenbush

The village is coming back, like it or not.” – David Brin

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

There is a reason why I live in a community filled with trees.” – Steven Magee

There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.” – Idowu Koyenikan

There is no commerce without community. And there is no community without commerce” – Michele Jennae

There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.” – Margaret J. Wheatley

There is strength in independence but there is power in community.” – Dr. Madeline Ofina

These pages testify to the discovery of unlikely gifts when we stay in community – especially when we stay after things get hard.” – Christopher Heuertz

They didn’t get the friendships that formed, the community of people who shared in your same joy.” – Goldy Moldavsky

This is about Us, with a capital U; everybody who looks like us, feels like us, and is experiencing this pain with us.” – Angie Thomas

This is what evil does; it makes choices for others in the name of religion, in the name of government, in the name of community, in the name of personal gain, that these individuals are best able to make for themselves.” – John Kramer

This world is just a little place, just the red in the sky, before the sun rises, so let us keep fast hold of hands, that when the birds begin, none of us be missing.” – Emily Dickinson

Through your influence, vision, ethics and authenticity you create a better reality for your family, community and organisation, where those around you and those who follow you are inspired to dream, learn and act” – Craig Dent

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

To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.” – Robin Hobb

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 hooks

to grow we need authentic sharing community and we need true contemplative solitude, most people are afraid of both – and choose to rather live somewhere in the mediocre middle” – Jaco Strydom

To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.” – Bertrand Russell

To truly strip a man of everything, one must take away his community, money, and corrode the core of his beliefs until he is left bathed in the agony of isolation.” – Leinad Eibam

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” – Leo Buscaglia

Treat others with respect and you will always be wealthy, because your community is your real currency.” – Bryant McGill

True church shouldn’t be about conformity, it’s about community.” – Rev. Kellen Roggenbuck

Ultimately politics is about people. People are never boring, and people belong together. We are meant to hash out how we want to live in community with one another.” – Sarah Stewart Holland & Beth Silvers

Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.” – Aeschylus

community development quotes

Unity without uniformity, community without conformity.” – Mac MacKenzie

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

We all have inherent biases. All of us. The problem occurs when police officers or community members allow those biases to affect the choices they make as they do their job or have interactions with others.” – Bobby F. Kimbrough

We all need to be reminded that democracy isn’t just voting for the president every four years and then trusting him to fix things. Democracy is about getting together with your community to think together about your future.” – Bill McKibben

We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.” – Maya Angelou

We all want something to offer. This is how we belong. It’s how we feel included. So if we want to include everyone, we have to help everyone develop their talents and use their gifts for the good of the community. That’s what inclusion means – everyone is a contributes.” – Melinda Gates

We are 100 percent individual and 100 percent a member of the community.” – Katherine Thanas

We are each born into a situation – a particular body (its race, sex, health), a set of ancestors, a community, a nation – and born into the stories told of each of these.” – Lewis Hyde

We are each made up of a community of cells within a community of cells.” – Anthony T. Hincks

We are going to be a community of diverse people who do not think the same or live the same lifestyle, but if we are going to live together peaceably, we need to find a better way to disagree.” – Eric Overby

We are made beautiful and glorious not by the ways in which we differ from the rest of the biosphere, but by our place, perhaps unique in the universe, in this community of living things.” – William Sieghart

We are not meant to live in isolation. Not in nuclear families or bubbled existence. The richness of life is found in community, in cooperation, in becoming a part of a greater whole. Expand your bubble, drop your shield. Invite love in. Do not attempt to do it alone.” – Jeanette LeBlanc

We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another.” – Lucianno de Crescenzo

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.” – Herman Melville

We cannot live with each other at the exclusion of each other for then the richness of our shared experience will die an impoverished death, and in the dying it will kill the dreams that we were both fighting for.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough

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.” – Cesar Chavez

We don’t heal in isolation, but in community.” – S. Kelley Harrell

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

We live in a community of people not so that we can suppress and dominate each other or make each other miserable but so that we can better and more reliably satisfy all life’s healthy needs.” – Wilhelm Reich

We must delight in each other, make others conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body.” – John Winthrop

We need to be engaged with our community to thrive.” – Pam Malow-Isham

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 mustlog on” somewhere, and if it is only in cyberspace, that is still far better than nowhere at all.” – Julia Cameron

We of alien looks or words must stick together.” – C.J. Sansom

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.” – Oliver Sacks

community empowerment quotes

We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.” – Cicero

Well basically,’ said Nell, ‘I want to question the value of confinement. An enclosed community is toxic. It festers. It stagnates. The wrong people thrive there. The sort of people who actually like being walled in.” – Lucy Hughes-Hallett

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

We’ll take care for each other, and we’ll all sleep together in a real pile.” – Spike Jonze

We’re experiencing the genesis of a community where it does not matter where your roots lie, but what you believe in. We will continue to create an inclusive and sustainable spirit, spreading the word from coast to mountaintop.” – Akilnathan Logeswaran

What is a community? It is the sum total of our choices.” – Fredrik Backman

What is justice if not a common, everyday sense of community.” – Abhijit Naskar

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

When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.” – Bill Moyers

When greed is enthroned, be it in a community or nation, ungodliness is celebrated at the altar of human pleasure.” – Sunday Adelaja

When individuals and communities do not govern self, they risk being ruled by external forces that care less about the well-being of the village.” – T.F. Hodge

When the highest value in a community is loyalty to the greater cause, meaning the continuity of the status quo, all means to this end are imbued with religious significance, and are thereby justified.Hasidic Noir” – Pearl Abraham

When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simple word. Matter from emptiness. Beauty from void. Community from chaos.” – Mary E. DeMuth

When we converse, we act together toward a common end, and we act upon one another. Indeed, conversation is a form of activism – a political enterprise in the largest and oldest sense – a way of building sustaining community.” – Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

When we establish human connections within the context of shared experience we create community wherever we go.” – Gina Greenlee

When you a get a job you are not qualified for, it will be evil to you and to your community.” – Sunday Adelaja

When you dream of what you want to see, whether in your life, home, community or nation, you need to keep watching those dreams until they come to fulfillment.” – Sunday Adelaja

Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.” – Robert K. Greenleaf

Why are the police REALLY having trouble recruiting officers – especially Black officers? We have to bridge the gap between community and law enforcement.” – Bobby F. Kimbrough

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

Without patriotism, that is, a sense of responsibility towards the society, a creature is not human to begin with.” – Abhijit Naskar

You (Millennials) are the generation most afraid of real community because it inevitably limits freedom and choice. Get over your fear.” – Timothy Keller

You can be in the vanguard of those that bring a change to the community and to the nation as a whole.” – Sunday Adelaja

You can become the greatest personality in your community by developing the sagacity of humility, teachability, prosperity-mentality and accountability.” – Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

You don’t form a church intramural sports league. You build it over time.” – Chip Tudor

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 Lovato

“You don’t need a committee to feel seen. You need a corner of the world that feels like yours.” — Unknown

“Find your people and the bad days get shorter.” — Unknown

“A good community doesn’t ask who you were. It asks if you want coffee.” — Unknown

“We are all just somebody’s neighbor, somebody’s friend, somebody’s reason to show up.” — Unknown

“Alone is a place. Lonely is a rumor. Community kills the rumor.” — Unknown

“The strongest bridges are built out of potlucks, small talk, and borrowed ladders.” — Unknown

“Community is the gym membership of the soul — you get out what you put in.” — Unknown

“I moved for the job and stayed for the neighbors.” — Unknown

“Nobody remembers who brought the fanciest dish. Everybody remembers who brought theirs every time.” — Unknown

“A town is just houses. A community is houses that know each other’s dogs’ names.” — Unknown

“The block party didn’t change my life. The third one did.” — Unknown

“Show up. That’s ninety percent of belonging.” — Unknown

“Community means your weird is someone else’s normal.” — Unknown

“I knew I belonged when they started saving me the end piece of bread.” — Unknown

“A neighborhood that waves is a neighborhood that watches out.” — Unknown

“We fix each other’s fences and forget to keep score.” — Unknown

“The best security system is a street where everybody knows everybody.” — Unknown

“Community is cheaper than therapy and comes with better snacks.” — Unknown

“Join the group chat. Go to the meeting. Say yes to the picnic. That’s the whole secret.” — Unknown

“I don’t have a big family, so I built one out of friends and coworkers and one very loyal barista.” — Unknown

“Belonging isn’t found. It’s built, one casserole at a time.” — Unknown

“The park cleanup taught me more names in two hours than a year of living here.” — Unknown

“Good neighbors don’t borrow sugar anymore. They lend chargers and Wi-Fi passwords.” — Unknown

“A community that laughs together stays together longer than one that just agrees.” — Unknown

“Volunteer somewhere local and watch strangers turn into people you hug.” — Unknown

“My community is the reason my plants are alive and my bad moods aren’t.” — Unknown

“The book club reads books. The real plot is the friendship.” — Unknown

“Community turns a commute into a routine and a routine into a ritual.” — Unknown

“Nobody’s an island when the flood comes. That’s the whole point of neighbors.” — Unknown

“Find the people who clap when you win and show up when you lose.” — Unknown

“A strong community is just a hundred small favors nobody posted about.” — Unknown

“I waved at the same runner every morning for a year. Now we do Thanksgiving together.” — Unknown

“The community garden grows tomatoes and, unexpectedly, friendships.” — Unknown

“Belonging feels like someone saving you a seat without being asked.” — Unknown

“We don’t need to be best friends. We need to be present friends.” — Unknown

“Every community has a glue person. Be the glue person.” — Unknown

“The soccer sidelines built my social life better than any app ever did.” — Unknown

“A town hall meeting is just family dinner with worse chairs.” — Unknown

“Community is the art of knowing your mail carrier’s name and using it.” — Unknown

“Help your neighbor move once and you’re family forever.” — Unknown

“The choir doesn’t care if you can sing. It cares that you came.” — Unknown

“We share tools, stories, and the occasional strong opinion about the HOA.” — Unknown

“Community means the kids on your street know you’re the house with the good snacks.” — Unknown

“Find your third place — not home, not work, but the spot where everybody knows your order.” — Unknown

“A community doesn’t need perfection. It needs people who pick up the phone.” — Unknown

“The running club meets at 6 a.m. The friendships meet you the rest of your life.” — Unknown

“Introduce yourself to the new neighbor. Future-you will be grateful.” — Unknown

“Communities are built at the speed of trust, which is roughly the speed of a slow barbecue.” — Unknown

“We don’t fix the world. We fix the street. The street adds up.” — Unknown

“Belonging is contagious. Start with a wave.” — Unknown

“The best communities argue about the picnic menu and agree on everything that matters.” — Unknown

“Your people are out there mowing lawns, pouring coffee, and waiting for you to say hi.” — Unknown

“A community is a group of people who’d notice if you disappeared. Be someone they’d notice.” — Unknown

“The potluck rule: bring something, take nothing personally, leave with leftovers and friends.” — Unknown

“Neighbors become friends somewhere between the second barbecue and the first snow shovel.” — Unknown

“Community is the quiet agreement that nobody does the hard parts alone.” — Unknown

“I found my people in the least likely place: the line at the DMV. Okay, the second line.” — Unknown

“A strong community doesn’t happen. It’s hosted, cooked, organized, and waved at.” — Unknown

“Home isn’t a house. It’s the people who’d help you move out of one.” — Unknown

“Belong where you are by being the neighbor you’d want to have.” — Unknown