Belonging Quote by John Gardner

We are individual designs in the fabric of life. We have our own integrity, but simultaneously we are part of the fabric, connected to…

— Tom Atlee

A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define…

— Wendell Berry

Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own.

— Henri Nouwen

“Communities are not built of friends, or of groups of people with similar styles and tastes, or even of people who like and understand…

— Suzanne Goldsmith

Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but…

— Henri Nouwen

Community [is] a group of individuals who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationships go deeper than their masks of…

— M. Scott Peck

“Community as openness . . . Communities are truly communities when they open to others, when they remain vulnerable and humble; when the members…

— Jean Vanier

Community is a place where the connections felt in our hearts make themselves known in the bonds between people, and where the tuggings and…

— Parker J. Palmer

A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A "community" is not a bunch of people united by some…

— Fran Lebowitz

Community cannot take root in a divided life. Long before community assumes external shape and form, it must be present as seed in the…

— Parker J. Palmer

The feeling of community... is really what gives a sense, a purpose to a society.

— Sophie Gregoire Trudeau

“Community, Identity, Stability”

— Aldous Huxley