Affirmation Quote by Pauli Murray

In a true community we will not choose our companions, for our choices are so often limited by self-serving motives. Instead, our companions will…

— Parker J. Palmer

“With reciprocity all things do not need to be equal in order for acceptance and mutuality to thrive. If equality is evoked as the…

— bell hooks

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 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 true community is not just about being geographically close to someone or part of the same social web network. It's about feeling connected…

— Yehuda Berg

“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

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 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

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

The common characteristics of people make a community possible, but it is their uncommon qualities that make it better.

— John Henry Fischer

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

“In true community, the person is protected. Indeed, a solitary person may take a lonely stand in witnessing to a particular truth. Dissent is…

— David Augsburger