Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
Categories: community

Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?
Budd Schulberg O Magazine, November 2003
Categories: community

First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.
Kristin Hunter O Magazine, November 2003
Categories: community

The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.
Aristotle Politics
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The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.
Mark Twain
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God creates men, but they choose each other.
Niccolo Machiavelli quoted in O Magazine, November 2003
Categories: community

Emperors, kings, artisans, peasants, big people, little people--at the bottom we are all alike and all the same; all just alike on the inside, and when our clothes are off, nobody can tell which of us is which.
Mark Twain Power Quotes
Categories: equality brotherhood community

Only connect.
E.M. Forster The Guiness Chronicle of the 20th Century in Quotations by David Milsted
Categories: relationships friendships community

No peace which is not peace for all, no rest until all has been fulfilled.
Dag Hammarskjold Editor's Introduction by John S. Mogabgab, Weavings, Nov/Dec 1998
Categories: peace justice community

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung
Categories: friendship love community

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
Bernard Baruch The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart
Categories: community fellowship cooperation

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
Jesus Christ, quoting scripture (Leviticus 19:18) Matthew 19:19
Categories: love relationships community society

I know it sounds like a cliche, but the greatest gift that you can give yourself comes from helping someone else. We get so caught up in our own lives and in our unrealistic worlds. We're so busy achieving and competing and worrying about silly little minutiae that we lose sight of the larger picture.
Norma Kamali "Unit of One," Fast Company, December 1999
Categories: volunteerism sharing giving community

Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
Samuel Johnson The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: friendship society time community

Good can imagine Evil, but Evil cannot imagine Good.
W.H. Auden The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
Categories: spirituality law society community responsibility

No man is an Island, entire of it self; every man is a piece of Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of they friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
John Donne Cassell Companion to Quotations
Categories: community relationships interdependence citizenship

Blessed are the peacemakers on earth.
William Shakespeare, from King Henry VI Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: peace peacemakers society community

If you really want to make a difference, stand up for an unpopular cause.
Edward Asner "Unit of One," Fast Company, December 1999
Categories: community service volunteering make a difference

What is the city but the people?
William Shakespeare Power Quotes
Categories: society people community volunteerism responsibility

We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Power Quotes
Categories: justice right society change racism oppression community

The hungry belly and the full belly do not walk the same road.
Jamaican proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: ministry sharing community service social responsibility

Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
Henry David Thoreau The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: spirituality materialism growth community self-awareness selflessness

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought
Categories: relationships commonality pain suffering community society war

If I'm such a legend, why am I so lonely?
Judy Garland The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: friendship relationships love kindness community acceptance

We must have a pure, honest, and warmhearted motivation, and on top of that, determination, optimism, hope, and the ability not to be discouraged. The whole of humanity depends on this motivation.
The Dalai Lama Living in Balance: A Dynamic Approach for Creating Harmony & Wholeness in a Chaotic World
Categories: community society mankind self-improvement growth service

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Lucy Larcom Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: community volunteerism emotions feeling action change

Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.
Albert Einstein The Quotable Einstein
Categories: duty love purpose meaning fulfillment community

If you don't kick things around with people, you are out of it. Nobody, I always say, can be anybody without somebody being around.
John Wheeler Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
Categories: team work teamwork cooperation brainstorming support community

The ocean is made of drops.
Mother Teresa The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Categories: actions service volunteerism helping caring community change

Life's most persistant and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
Martin Luther King, Jr. Bits and Pieces
Categories: service volunteerism volunteering helping community serving giving

It is the duty of youth to bring its fresh powers to bear on Social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should lift the world forward. That is what they are for.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: youth work effort society community progress volunteerism

A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as, or more, than he has contributed to him.
Elbert Hubbard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: self-confidence ability self-esteem contribution society community charity

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Ann Frank The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: tolerance racism bigotry happiness joy meaning society community

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society--more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: duty meaning job work society responsibility community self-esteem

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 Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: responsibility society community welfare justice ministry volunteerism

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each on of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others.
Mahatma Gandhi The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: unity tolerance acceptance racism bigotry peace community society

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Power Quotes
Categories: progress change community society problem solving planning obstacles

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrows.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Power Quotes
Categories: war fighting progress humanity society community argue argument peace

He that goes barefoot must not plant thorns.
English proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: criticism sarcasm kindness community relationships love friendship marriage

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
Martin Luther King, Jr. The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
Categories: progress science brotherhood relationships community society racism bigotry opression

We cannot safely leave politics to politicians, or political economy to college professors. The people themselves must think, because the people alone can act.
Henry George Power Quotes
Categories: society community action money power stewardship fiscal responsibility politics

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Mother Teresa Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: action volunteerism work effort change community giving sharing leadership

It seems we may live in a society that has almost forgotten the glory of what it means to be human. We are in need of healing.
M. Scott Peck A World Waiting to Be Born: Civility Rediscovered
Categories: humanity meaning purpose life spirituality sin society community mistakes failures

We must love one another or die.
W.H. Auden The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
Categories: relationships friendships race relations community society world village war peace

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
Winston Churchill The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: character community society freedom justice science law honor morality behavior manners

Keep in mind that each of you has your own vineyard. But every one is joined to your neighbor's vineyards without any dividing lines. They are so joined together, in fact, that you cannot do good or evil for yourself without doing the same for your neighbors.
Catherine of Sienna The Dialog by Catherine of Sienna, as quoted in "Wisdom of the Mothers" by Wendy M. Wright in the July/August 1997 issue of Weavings.
Categories: interdependence interdependency neighbors actions consequences choices responsibility community society win/win vision

The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
W. Beran Wolfe Light from Many Lamps
Categories: happiness joy meaning purpose fulfillment giving sharing society community volunteerism volunteering

Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
Ray Lyman Wilbur Light from Many Lamps
Categories: happiness service ministry volunteerism giving sharing volunteering community meaning fulfillment

Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilization...Without it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
Bill Moyers A World of Ideas
Categories: sharing giving teaching education knowledge imagination leadership civilization society community meaning

When we can see past our own reflection - when we see and care beyond ourselves, when we see and learn from others - only then do we become adults.
Walter Anderson The Confidence Course: Sevens Steps to Self-Fulfillment
Categories: focus balance orientation community society responsibility maturity mature maturation growth service ministry

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor; for it is not he that you wrong; you wrong yourself.
Shawnee Chant A Cherokee Feast of Days: Daily Meditations
Categories: relationships friendships neighbors community society trust honesty kindness golden rule respect peace

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.
John 13:34 Holy Bible
Categories: love christianity discipleship choices responsibility interdependence interdependency neighbors actions consequences community society win/win vision

To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you are desperately miserable you are intensely conscious of yourself, are a solid little lump of ego weighing a ton.
J.B. Priestley Light from Many Lamps
Categories: happiness fulfillment meaning selflessness selfishness depression sadness emotions attitude giving sharing community service ministry

The stakes...are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Barbara Jordan Power Quotes
Categories: politics citizenship vote voting civic responsibility civics society activism society community power politicians democratic process leadership

I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness of something wider than materialism; in the capacity to live in a world that makes you unselfish because you are not overanxious about your personal place; that makes you tolerant because you realize your own comic fallibilities; that gives you tranquility without complacency because you believe in something so much larger than yourself.
Sir Hugh Walpole Light from Many Lamps
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