3,462 Quotes About Community

Culture is like a forest. The seeds are your core values. Once they take root as behaviours, they can grow into trees, populating your cultural forest. Bad seeds produce unhealthy forests, infertile, and plagued by infestations. Good seeds produce a healthy forest and ecosystems that support life. One is sustainable, the other is simply not.

Without bridges, there are no connections. Without bridges, there are only chasms. Without bridges, there are only longings. We cannot wait for the land to flatten and the stream to narrow before we seek to cross.

When we loosen the knots of our identity in celebration of humanity, we not only become stronger as a people, but also our own identity expands beyond our wildest imagination.

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’?And the Stranger will depart and return to the desert.

This is written in the night. In war the dark is on nobody's side, in love the dark confirms that we are together.

There is so much of me in all of you. You are a way for me to know myself.

That people you don’t know are worth knowing, that they have something to teach you. That learning about them – that encountering new ideas – doesn’t threaten you, it enriches you. (Celeste Ng)

The only way we will love our neighbor as ourselves is by getting to know our neighbors, even in the midst of our differences.The only way to truly know someone is by being with them, by conversation.

There is an unseen river of communication that forever flows -- dark and powerful.