Community Quote by Larry Harvey

“Community is like a garden, it is an organic living thing; if it is neglected, it can overgrow with weeds and suffer decline. Communities…

— Cory Bernardi

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

Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew each Sabbath…

— David James Duncan

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

— Jean Vanier

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

We know that where community exists in confers upon its members identity, a sense of belonging, and a measure of security. . . .…

— John Gardner

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

— Henri Nouwen

Communities don't think, don't believe, don't want, don't have needs, don't have interests and don't make decisions. Only individuals have minds that generate desires…

— Harry Browne

“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

Every community is important in its own way and every community has its place within our country. But there is some integration between communities,…

— Konkona Sen Sharma

If you want to know anything about community, you have to realize that the contemplative side is essential. Community without retreating and quiet time…

— Henri Nouwen

“communities come together in the face of conflict and disagreement.”

— Martin Lindstrom