Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

I want everyone to identify with my tracks and for all of us to be part of it in some way or another.

Trying to explain what community is to someone who's never experienced it is like trying to explain what an artichoke tastes like.

Sense of family is enormously important to me. In the larger sense, we're all of us family; we're all of us soulmates.

People who feel empowered by your presence become kindred spirits.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others.

A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.

I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

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 and responsible for what happens. Humanity is our ultimate community, and everyone plays a crucial role.

I'm not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work.

I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another is really by knowing them... whether that's in a classroom, or a soccer team, or a food pantry, or any of those things. I mean, we're kind of more alike than we are different.

The idea of appealing to people of a like mind and like spirit always appealed to me.

You know, we have our differences, everybody does, honest, real differences, but I do believe strongly that we as neighbors are drawn together far more than we're driven apart.

At the end of the day, humans are social animals and we are at our best when we get to do things with others who appreciate and enjoy what we enjoy. It's what keeps us human.

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. It's rubbish. We have almost everything in common with everyone.

There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection, shared experience. And you see it in every place. You see it when ball players jump up and down, gather at home plate, hugging, and it's not just because they're winning, it's that shared moment, that feeling of - we enter the world alone, we leave alone.

If two people believe in the same story, they might be thousands of miles apart and total strangers, but they still have a sense they can trust each other.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

For me, I feel like I relate to a lot of people.

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

Men are not tied together by papers and seals. They are led to associate by resemblances, by conformities, by sympathies.

We are a people in search of community.