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When the world seems
large and
complex, we need to remember
that great world
ideals all begin
in some home neighborhood.
Konrad Adenauer
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It is
the individual who is not interested in his or her fellow people who has the
greatest difficulties in life and provides
the greatest injury
to
others. It is from among such individuals
that all human
failures spring.
Alfred
Adler
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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
One from Many
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You may not have saved a lot of
money in your life, but if you have saved
a lot of
heartaches for other folks, you are a pretty rich person.
Seth Parker
No soul
is desolate as long as there is a human being
for whom it
can feel trust and reverence.
George
Eliot
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Set
about doing good to somebody. Put on your hat and go and
visit the sick
and poor of your neighborhood; inquire
into their circumstances and minister
to their wants. Seek out the desolate and afflicted and oppressed. . .
I
have often tried this method, and have always found it
the best medicine for a heavy heart.
Howard
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Our
highest calling is to the world around us, to the
people with whom
we share this world of ours. We learn
about life through our interactions
with others, even if
that interaction is reading words written by others.
While life in a monastery or convent, shut off from
the rest of the world,
may be right for some people,
we never get to know our potential and
limitations if we
don't deal with other human beings, if we don't
do our "duty," which is the task before us.
tom
walsh
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A child's kiss
Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad;
A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich;
A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong;
Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense
Of service which thou renderest.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
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The
markets of the world are
flowing with goods and services
produced by
the interplay of
sun and earth, air and water,
and the inexhaustible
imagination
and energy of human beings.
Wherever you touch an object
made or conveyed
by humans,
you are touched by all the
people who have reached their
hands
to make this possible for you. Daily use is daily communion.
Arthur P. Moor
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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
Community and Growth
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We can
scarcely hate
anyone that we know.
William Hazlitt |
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Each
one of us is bound to make the little circle in
which he or she
lives better and happier. Bound
to see that out of that
small circle
the widest good may flow.
A.P. Stanley |
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Community,
then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection
between people and land. A healthy community is a form that
includes all the
local things that are connected by the larger, ultimately mysterious
form of the
Creation. In speaking of community, then, we are speaking of a
complex
connection not only among human beings or between humans and their
homeland but also between human economy and nature, between forest
or prairie and field or orchard, and between troublesome creatures and
pleasant ones. All neighbors are included.
Wendell Berry
The Art of the Commonplace |
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The foundations of
civilization are no stronger and no more enduring
than
the corporate integrity of the homes on which they rest.
If the home deteriorates, civilization will crumble
and fall.
Billy Graham |
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This
is the true joy in life, the being used up for a purpose recognized
by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of
a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances,
complaining that
the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
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.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die,
for the harder I work the more I live.
I rejoice in life for its own sake.
Life is no “brief candle” to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch which I have
got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly
as possible before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw |
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Unless we give part of ourselves away,
unless we can live
with other people and understand them
and help them,
we are missing the most essential part of
our own lives.
Harold Taylor |
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To complain that life
has no joys while there is a single person
whom
we can
relieve by our bounty, assist by our counsels
or enliven
by our presence, is to lament the loss of that which we
possess,
and is just as rational as to die of thirst with
the cup in our hands.
Thomas Fitzosborne
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When you learn to live for others,
they will live for you.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Only
a life lived for others
is a life worth while.
Albert Einstein |
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Life becomes harder
for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes
richer and happier.
Albert Schweitzer |
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True happiness consists in making
others happy.
Hindu proverb |
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Try to forget yourself in
the service of others. For when we think too much
of
ourselves and our own interests, we easily become
despondent.
But when we work for others, our efforts
return to bless us.
Sidney Powell |
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The
true joy of humankind is in doing that which is most proper
to our
nature; and the first property of people is to be kindly affected
towards them that are of one kind with ourselves.
Marcus Aurelius
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When indeed
shall we learn that we are all related one to the other,
that we are all members of one body? Until the spirit of love
for our
fellow people, regardless of race, color, or creed, shall fill the
world,
making real in our lives and our deeds the actuality of human brother-
and sisterhood, until the great mass of the people shall be filled
with
the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare,
social justice can never be attained.
Helen Keller
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We
will recognize that each person needs to nourish and be nourished
by many
persons. . . . It is right, even necessary, to make yourselves
available
to one
another in new loving, caring, and fulfilling ways--without the spectres of old guilts.
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I think we need to
teach children the importance of others, and
that they cannot grow in this world without taking in others.
The more worlds they take in, these unique worlds, the more
they can become. We need to teach them to trust others again,
because we're all frightened to death of each other. We're
building
higher and higher walls, stronger and stronger locks. Tear down
the walls! Every day I see how we're distrusting and it hurts.
Leo
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If we could but recognize our common humanity, that
we do belong together,
that our destinies are bound up in one another's, that we can be free
only together,
that we can be human only together, then a glorious world would come
into being
where all of us lived harmoniously together as members of one family,
the human family.
Desmond Tutu |
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Culture
makes people understand each other better. And if they
understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome
the economic and political barriers. But first they have to
understand that their neighbor is, in the end, just like them,
with the same problems, the same questions.
Paulo Coelho |
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To see the earth as it truly is, small and
blue and beautiful in that eternal
silence where it
floats,
is to see riders on the earth together, brothers
and sisters on that bright loveliness
in the eternal
cold--people
who
know now they are truly brothers and sisters.
Archibald MacLeish
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You are,
whether with reluctance or with commitment, a unit of this community.
The community you live in is not an entity separate from
your life. It is a
representation of your life. You are the individual unit, the
multiple of which
is us.
Sometimes we feel alienated from our culture, as if it
moved separately from
the people who compose it. It cannot move without us. We
shape its values
and its quality each and every moment.
How are your values shaping your community? Stop a
moment and imagine
all the people whom you identify as part of your community.
Decide what your
contribution to their quality of life will be. The quality of
your life will be closely
attuned to the quality of theirs.
Jennifer James
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You know, we're all going in
the same direction, or at least
trying to. So we need to live together, get along together,
and give each other enough space to be comfortable on that road.
Lillian Gideon
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Community
cannot take root in a divided life. Long before community
assumes external shape and form, it must be present as seed in the
undivided self: only as we are in communion with ourselves can
we
find community with others. Community is an outward and visible sign
of an inward and invisible grace, the flowing of personal identity and
integrity into the world of relationships.
Parker J. Palmer
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We are each other's harvest;
we are each other's business;
we are each other's magnitude and bond.
Gwendolyn Brooks
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People
must not choose their neighbors; they must take
the neighbors
that
God sends them. The
neighbor is just
the person who is next to you at the
moment,
the person
with whom any business has brought you into
contact.
George
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If God is
thy father, human beings
are thy brothers and sisters.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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God grant that not
only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge
of the
rights
of humans may pervade all the nations of the earth,
so that
a philosopher
may set his or her foot anywhere on its
surface and say:
"This is my country."
Benjamin Franklin |
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Find out
how much God has given you and take from it
what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
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