3,462 Quotes About Community

Libraries were a solace in the Depression. They were warm and dry and useful and free; they provided a place for people to be together in a desolate time. You could feel prosperous at the library. There was so much there, such an abundance, when everything else felt scant and ravaged, and you could take any of it home for free. Or you could just sit at a reading table and take it all in.

Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love.

Yet, citizens who want to help empower their political values would be better off if they spent less time consuming politics as at-home amateurs and instead fell in line to help strengthen organizations and leaders. Rather than kibitzing with their social media friends, they could adopt some of the spirit of the party regulars, counting votes and building interpersonal relationships in their neighborhoods.

A realist’s heartIt is not dead but it isn’t fully alive eitherIt is not affected by the change of the weatherIt is truthful with itselfAnd does not remain for the taking on the shelfA realist heart is simply a heart that knows it can stop beating at any minuteEvery beat, the realist ought not waste it

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.

Home is where freedom is, community is where accountability is.

It was a community, and in Ibrahim's opinion that was how human beings were designed to live. At Coopers Chase, anytime you wanted to be alone, you would simply close your front door, and anytime you wanted to be with people, you would open it up again. If there was a better recipe for happiness than that, then Ibrahim was yet to hear it.

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

The glass is either half empty or half full, and remember that whatever your perspective, it is entirely your choice.