Community Living Quotes:

Community living is about having the same rights and choices as everyone else.

- Ari Ne'eman

topic: Rights, Community Living, Choices

I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.

- Youssou N'Dour

topic: Happiness, Thinking, Community Living, Joie De Vivre

It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.

- Dorothy Day

topic: Peace, Community Living, Giving

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

- Dorothy Day

topic: Loneliness, Being Alone, Long, Our Community, Loneliness In Life

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead

source: Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Social Democracy, Social Entrepreneurship

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

- Henrik Ibsen

topic: Leadership, Community, Preparation, Helm, Spiritual Community

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: "The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better". Book by Richard Leider, p. 35., 2010.

topic: Encouragement, Freedom, Business, Way In Life, Social Good

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Social Good, Making A Difference In The World

A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.

- Rudolf Steiner

topic: Reflection, Mirrors, Community, Social Life, Community Building

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

- Norman MacEwen

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Giving, Social Good, Making A Difference In The World

We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.

- Woodrow Wilson

topic: Positive Thinking, Thinking, World, Spiritual Vision, Leadership And Vision

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

- Woodrow Wilson

source: Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.15, The Minerva Group, Inc.

topic: Life, Motivational, Inspiring, Spiritual Vision, Leadership And Vision

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

- Unknown

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Way In Life, Empowering Women

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Life, Beauty, Space Race, Inspirational Animal

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual, Quiet Person, Experiencing Things

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

- Aldo Leopold

source: A Sand County Almanac pt. 3 (1949)

topic: Beauty, Nature, Integrity, Land Use, Deep Ecology

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

- Aldo Leopold

source: A Sand County Almanac foreword (1949)

topic: Inspiring, Nature, Ocean, Inspirational Environmental, Inspiring Nature

We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

- Albert Einstein

source: Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

topic: Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature, Quiet Person, Experiencing Things

Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

- Allen Ginsberg

topic: Art, War, Effort, Community Living

One of the big things coming out of healthcare reform is a thing called the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act (CLASS) which is a mechanism to reimburse people staying at home for technology and services that allow them to stay at home.

- Colin Angle

topic: Home, Technology, Class, Community Living, Healthcare Reform