#community

Unless today is well lived, tomorrow is not important. ↗

— Alan Sakowitz

#character #community #family #financial-thriller #inspirational

He thought about his people without sentimentality, with a strict closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated most. ↗

— 118

#death-penalty #family #last-words #love #death

The desire to move into a bigger house, to avoid living AIDS daily, and a dream to be accepted by a community and school, became possible and a reality with a movie about my life, The Ryan White Story. ↗

— Ryan White

#accepted #aids #avoid #became #bigger

It is the artist who tries to gradually accustom people to the possibilities of a better state of things. ↗

— C.A. Dawson Scott

#change #creative-vision #creativity #human-nature #world-community

Everyone can be great because everyone can serve. ↗

— Dr. Martin Luther King

#empowerment #encouragement #inspirational #inspirational

Happiness is good, but well-overrated: what we hate most are the very motivators that put us in gear. A man drifts along with little to contribute until something agitates him enough to make a difference, whether for himself or for his communities. ↗

— Criss Jami

#community #contribution #difference #drift #happiness

She was drowning—in friendliness, in community—and she was starting to think she didn't want to get pulled out. ↗

— Tricia Goyer

#inspirational #inspirational

Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave your gold in a tent with no guard and no one would touch it, but now all that has changed. The law of the jungle rules, the only ideology is greed. Don't let yourself be parted from your weapons, and always travel in pairs or groups, because this is a land of thieves. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#community #greed #honesty #change

I ponder the rhythms of letting go and embracing whatever is around the corner, trusting that the empty spaces will be filled. And knowing that sometimes community can happen only in the gaps where mystery resides. ↗

— Joyce Hollyday

#community #inspirational #inspirational

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#class #community #else #money #more