She was drowning—in friendliness, in community—and she was starting to think she didn't want to get pulled out.
Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.
Death was painful, not because people couldn't see their loved ones anymore, but because they couldn't communicate with them anymore.
Has Westhaven taken to gossiping?" "He has not, but like most men, you assume the only communications of significance pass between the males of the species.
Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married: any wife could be faintly rude to anyone else's husband.
From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia.
A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
The sign of the victorious communities are that they forbid evil; call to good and spend in the way of Allah.
...let me say, on behalf of the entire gay male community, we hate your fucking guts ’cause you landed him. Share, you selfish bastard.
Do you think ladies’ eyebrows can communicate as well?” she asked. “No, they don’t have sufficient thicketry,” he said with authority. “Thicketry?” “Yes, that is the official term.
To commune with your heart and soul, be willing to go out of your mind.
The essentials," I answered, "are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their families, and themselves; and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny.
As long as they don’t harm the environment, pay taxes, and don't do it in my bed, it’s none of my business.
The ego is a mean mechanism which mobilizes the absolute strongest rationalization traps in order to preserve itself.
While aloofness might fascinate others and makes them respect you, it will never allow for intimacy and profound relationships.
Traveling equals having experiences which translate into more opportunities for exposing incorrect ideas about life.
Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?
Gen Y's work best in groups, collaboratively, transparently, interactively and entrepreneurially - and have already created positive change in many local communities and around the world.
Monoculture wants you to forget that the joy of life is in the community of the village, where you can touch, taste, smell, feel and experience a motley potpourri of cultural vicissitudes.
In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?
The closest natural area to you is the wild, naturally intelligent biological community within you.
