Quotes about Community

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses. Katherine Mansfield I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

The rule for us all is perfectly simple. Do not waste time bothering whether you love your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him

Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire?

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were . . .

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

A good death is a death in solidarity with others. To prepare ourselves for a good death, we must develop or deepen this sense of solidarity.

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.