"Community means caring: caring for people. Dietrich Bonhoeffer says: "He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community." A community is not an abstract ideal."

-- Jean Vanier

#Mean Quotes #Caring Quotes #People Quotes

“The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.”

Source : Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.361, Routledge
“I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.”

Source : Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.221, A&C Black
“Every age manifests itself by some external evidence. In a period such as ours when only a comparatively few individuals seem to be given to religion, some form other than the Gothic cathedral must be found. Industry concerns the greatest numbers-it may be true, as has been said, that our factories are our substitute for religious expression.”

Source : Charles Brock, Charles Sheeler, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), Art Institute of Chicago, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum (2006). “Charles Sheeler: across media”, University of California Press
“Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.”

Source : Sydney Smith, Lady Saba Holland Holland, Sarah Austin (1855). “A Memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith”, p.178
“I have a heart with room for every joy .”

Source : Philip James Bailey (1848). “Beauties of Festus”, p.156
“In the industrial nations, there's a sense that Africa would go under without development aid. But believe me, Africa existed before you Europeans came along. And we didn't do all that poorly either.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“The blues are just a heightened sense of awareness of life's ups and downs, and things that a guy sees after a couple hits of Jack Daniels.”
“A fierce and sentimental addiction to forms makes us shudder at change. It is much easier to say that the system is all right-only the people need to be improved.”

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