Caring Community Quotes

But the experience that I had, which was basically just feeling loved and taken care of in a room full of thousands of people I didn't know, seemed to be a pretty strong sign that what I was doing was a good thing.

It's important, too, for people to see that it only takes one person to have faith in you, to care about you, to make you feel changed. We should all help each other out and give love to everyone as much as possible.

Even though the neighborhood I grew up in had some unhealthy elements, there was a caring there where you knew that you didn't want to get caught doing something wrong. There were bright spots in the neighborhood where I felt nurtured on a community level.

I was lucky. A lot of people have that. People that don't tell you what you want to hear, but what's best for you. I was blessed with great friends. I was always blessed that way. My dad always kept good people around me. I just got lucky. Because of the spotlight you're in, people are scared to tell you otherwise.

The people of Arizona, they've been very warm and welcoming.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Cancer has shown me what family is. It showed me a love that I never knew really existed.

I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.

"Welcome to the Amity compound," Johanna's eyes fix on my face, and she smiles crookedly. "Let us take care of you."

Social Security is based on a principle. It's based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the widow across town, a disabled widow, is going to be able to have food to eat.

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.

Community [is] a group of individuals who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationships go deeper than their masks of composure, and who have developed some significant commitment to "rejoice together, mourn together," and to "delight in each other, make others' conditions our own.

The Kingdom is the love of God prevailing in politics, in business, in government, in media. It is all the impact of the laws of God creating a social environment where the strong help the weak, where those who have give to those who don't. It's a society where relationships are built on love.

I have for a very long time dreamed of an association, in which the members, instead of preying on one another and seeking to put one another down, after the fashion of this world, should live together as brotherhood, seeking one another's elevation and spiritual growth. But the materials of such a community I have not seen.

I think a mother needs to be with mothers. I don't know what they talk about.

No one really disagrees that all of humanity has a responsibility to protect fellow citizens in a time of need.

Of course, all of their words for a thousand years could not fill the hole left by his mother, but they could raise a loving fence around it so he didn't keep falling in.

We have to take care of each other's children.

It takes a caring community to raise a child that will be a whole person and a contributing citizen.

You have to surround yourself with people who love you and want the best for you.

A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

That home is most beautiful in which you find each person striving to serve the other.

The measure of a society is its compassion.

The Boston College community took a personal interest in my success, not only as a student but as a human being.

A society which denies the heart its role becomes, in very short order, a heartless society.