Community Quote by Henri Nouwen

Solitude does not necessarily mean living apart from others; rather, it means never living apart from one's self. It is not about the absence…

— Parker J. Palmer

I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.

— Henri Nouwen

To have any sort of community is so, so important for humans. I think that I forget that sometimes because I definitely enjoy my…

— Jenna Ortega

If you start with community and want to be faithful to community, you have to realize that what binds you together is not mutual…

— Henri Nouwen

“In solitude we can come to the realization that we are not driven together but brought together. In solitude we come to know our…

— Henri Nouwen

Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving states of…

— Parker J. Palmer

“In solitude we discover that community is not a common ideology, but a response to a common call.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

— Robert Cecil

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels…

— Anonymous

Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Solitude is a virtue for us, since it is a sublime inclination and impulse to cleanliness which shows that contact between people, “society”, inevitably…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community.

— Robert Fulghum