"Community is not an ideal; it is people. It is you and I. In community we are called to love people just as they are with their wounds and their gifts, not as we want them to be."

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Source : Jean Vanier (1992). “From Brokenness to Community”, p.35, Paulist Press

Jean Vanier

#People Quotes #Community Quotes #Want Quotes

“My grandfather was a teacher, my grandmother on my mom's side, four of my aunts, my sister-in-law, my best friend. So I've always, my entire life, been surrounded by teachers, and because of that I've had a tremendous respect for what teachers can do, the power that they can have.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.”

Source : Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub
“I'll always be the ginger one from Harry Potter.”

Source : " Rupert Grint: 'I'm kind of excited'" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2010.
“A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.”
“Thats one of my problems is that there are so many songs to sing that I sort of get indecisive about what I want to do in a show - because there are so many possibilities! There are so many great songs out there.”
“I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.”
“You know how some trees have those ear mushrooms that just grow off, and you could live on one of those mushrooms and not realize that there was stacks and stacks of others? That's how I describe music scenes in New York. That's one of the trippiest things about living here - just how many parallel universes there are that you can be completely unaware of.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!”

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