Top 35 Quotes About Community And Friendship
#1. It's the flock, the grove, that matters. Our responsibility is to species, not to specimens; to communities, not to individuals.
Sara Bonnett Stein
#2. A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#3. And if you don't underestimate me, I won't underestimate you.
Bob Dylan
#4. Shows like 'Sex and the City' got women involved again in a political way. They were drawn into the personal stories of the four women who together make up one complete cosmopolitan woman. We want to have community, and the show filled that void in our lives: friendship between women.
Kim Cattrall
#5. 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.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#7. Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.
Aristotle.
#8. The solitude of women's minds is regrettable, I said to myself, it's a waste to be separated from each other without procedures, without tradition.
Elena Ferrante
#9. I only laid the cobbles for the streets of Bordertown; it took all of us, an entire community, to bring the city to life. And that's as it should be. Community, friendship, art: stirred together, they make a powerful magic. Used wisely, it can save your life. I know that it saved mine.
Terri Windling
#10. To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
Bertrand Russell
#11. Authentic community is the sweet aroma of the gifts offered to our Lord on the day of His birth.
Alan De Jager
#13. The brother is a burden to the Christian, precisely because he is a Christian. For the pagan the other person never becomes a burden at all. He simply sidesteps every burden that others may impose upon him.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#14. These pages testify to the discovery of uhnlikely gifts when we stay in community
especially when we stay after things get hard.
Christopher Heuertz
#15. We have to rise above bad fortune. We have to be in the good and enjoy the good, study and work and adventure and friendship and community and love.
Joshua Prager
#16. Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction.
C.S. Lewis
#17. As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge. God alone can know how wide are the steps which the soul has to take before it can approach to a community with Him, to the dwelling of the perfect, or to the intercourse and friendship of higher natures.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#18. I had no male friends now, though I did have a strong community of intelligent, supportive, funny women and I felt confused as to why they weren't enough for me,
Charlotte Shane
#19. Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
Timothy Keller
#20. OPPORTUNITIES TO build friendship and community don't always come at the most convenient times, but we have to grab them when we get the chance.
Shauna Niequist
#21. Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation
Queen Elizabeth II
#22. Even though Paul knew farewells were inevitable, he still formed deep relationships.
Beth Moore
#23. The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.
Jasmine Guy
#24. [The integrative system] deals with such matters as respect, legitimacy, community, friendship, affection, love, and of course their opposites, across a broad scale of human relationships and interactions.
Kenneth E. Boulding
#25. Relationships we complain about nevertheless keep us connected to life.
Sherry Turkle
#26. 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
#27. Ask the person who found you about what kind of people they were looking for before meeting you, as they may not know that they have found one of them already.
Robin Sacredfire
#28. Christianity did not begin with a confession. It began with an invitation into friendship, into creating a new community, into forming relationships based on love and service.
Diana Butler Bass
#30. Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.
Steven Van Zandt
#31. I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.
Kaley Cuoco
#32. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Brooks Adams
#33. Friendship cannot become permanent unless it becomes spiritual. There must be fellowship in the deepest things of the soul, community in the highest thoughts, sympathy with the best endeavors.
Hugh Black
#34. It was loneliness and insecurity that had brought Claudia to the chaos of madness. It was community, love, and friendship that finally brought her inner peace. This movement from chaos to inner peace, from self - hate to self - trust, began when Claudia realized that she was loved.
Jean Vanier
#35. The truth is a community is as big or as small as your heart lets it be.
Genevieve Dewey
