#community

Is it not true that in ancient times the worst punishment of all was not death, but banishment? ↗

— Jean Said Makdisi

#community #punishment #death

You (Millennials) are the generation most afraid of real community because it inevitably limits freedom and choice. Get over your fear. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#community #fear #intimacy #relationship #freedom

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

Traveling further ingrained my desire to connect to a place other than an island that is slightly older, in a New World way, than the United States, especially after I found characteristics of my face in the faces of the people in my global community. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#journeying #love-of-travel #new-world #spiritual-journey #traveling

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

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

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#giving #ignorance #journalism #keeps #opinions