715 quotes found
“Only through the group, I realised through sharing the suffering of the group could the body reach that height of existence that the individual alone could never attain. And for the body to reach...”
“Risin up, when youre weak, makes a person stronger. By standin, theryre saying that [she] matters, and they matter too. I feel better when I think about how showin respect to one person makes every...”
“As part of humanity, each of us is called to develop and share the unique gifts we are given.”
“Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.”
“When RBG fretted over the first dry opinion the chief justice assigned her, O'Connor gave her a pep talk. As RBG read that opinion on the bench, O'Connor, who had dissented in the case, passed her ...”
“Actually, all the life we keep deceiving eachother. Because, life is too short to hate someone.”
“I am a woman with wings,' I once wrote and will revise these words again. 'I am a woman with wings dancing with other women with wings.' In a voiced community, we all flourish.”
“Become faithful to yourself, if you do, it will come natural towards everyone else.”
“Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling so...”
“Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions.”
“...aconsejara yo a los que tienen oracin, en especial al principio, procuren amistad y trato con otras personas que traten de lo mismo. Es cosa importantsima, aunque no sea sino ayudarse unos a otr...”
“When the highest value in a community is loyalty to the greater cause, meaning the continuity of the status quo, all means to this end are imbued with religious significance, and are thereby justif...”
“People are living books. The real library of life is community.”
“In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I th...”
“When you dream of what you want to see, whether in your life, home, community or nation, you need to keep watching those dreams until they come to fulfillment.”
“If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and, beyond that, in the good health of our worldly places, our homelands...”
“Whenever we take the focus off ourselves and move it outward, we benefit. Life's most fortunate ironies are that what's best for the long run is best now, and selflessness serves our interests far ...”
“None of us can accomplish our dreams without the help of others. Is it more important for you to feel superior and self-sufficient than to accomplish your dreams within a community of supporters?”
“...but most of all he liked to listen to stories of real life. He smiled gleefully as he listened to such stories, putting in words and asking questions, all aiming at bringing out clearly the mora...”
“They didn't get the friendships that formed, the community of people who shared in your same joy.”
