Community Quote by Leonard Cohen Download Open image “A community is an alibi for the failure of individual love.” — Leonard Cohen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Community Failure Individual Love
Community is a sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either ignore or fight each other. It is… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
“Community is not an ideal; it is people. It is you and I. In community we are called to love people just as they… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A person who loves community tends to destroy it. But a person who loves people creates community wherever he goes. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Community, a place of healing and growth . . . When people enter community, especially from a place of loneliness in a big city… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Basically, I have found that people who have tried to start communities out of good feelings or hippie-dippie abstract concepts of love - it… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Community is a consequence. It results when people come together to accomplish things that are important to them and succeed. People who are uninvolved… — Richard Cornuelle Copy Share Image
In any case, community is not about perfect people. It is about people who are bonded to each other, each of whom is a… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul... — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Don't matter if you're rich and strong Don't matter if you're weak Don't matter if you write a song The nightingales repeat Don't matter… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“You don't know me from the wind you never will, you never did I'm the little jew who wrote the Bible. I've seen the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“This is it I’m not coming after you I’m going to lie down for half an hour This is it I’m not going down On your memory I’m not rubbing my face in it anymore I’m going to yawn I’m going to stretch I’m going to put a knitting needle Up my nose And poke out my brain I don’t… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share
My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments when we can... reconcile and embrace… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I would say the hummingbird really deserves the royalties on [some of my songs]. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
One is given to self-dramatization from time to time. I intend to live forever. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The basic function of popular music is to create an environment for courting, lovemaking, and doing the dishes. It's useful because it addresses the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Blessed are you, embrace of the falling, foundation of the light, master of the human accident.” — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jackie Kennedy. She is, to… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection, and community. That's what there's too little of in today's mediascape, despite all the hoopla surrounding social tools. The promise of the Internet wasn't merely to inflate relationships, without adding depth, resonance, and meaning. It was… — Umair Haque Copy Share
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point. — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being gay and Christian across denominations is at once timely, smart, poignant, disturbing, inspiring, and maddening. It's essential reading for anyone who cares about the rights of the LGBTQ community to be treated as equal citizens at… — Donna Freitas Copy Share
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
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