Community Quotes

"Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows" "A champion owes everybody something" "To move forward, you have to give back." "The happiest people are not the ones with the most money or the most stuff, but the ones who have invested the most time in others" "Belonging is the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us" "We feel lonely when we think we are supposed to be in community with others, but we are trapped behind a facade of perfection." "True belonging is not passive. It’s not the belonging that comes with just joining a group. It’s not fitting in or pretending or selling out because it’s safer. It’s a practice that requires vulnerability to get uncomfortable and learn how to be present with people without sacrificing who we are." "If we are inclined to forget how much we need other people, friends and family, holidays and parties all remind us." "We must indeed all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately" "A town isn't a town without a bookstore" "In a world that is so interconnected, we are all neighbors" "Cities are the absence of physical space between people." "We don't have to do all of it alone. We were never meant to." "The opposite of belonging is fitting in." "A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong."