Quotes about Community

Once we pray with or for someone, we are in the ongoing story of his life, and it is an honor to be there.

Most gifts emerge in the context of serving people.

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

A man's value to the community primarily depends on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who have need of a man's help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For, remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. It is an uncomfortable doctrine which the true ethics whisper into my ear. You are happy, they say; therefore you are called upon to give much.