The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.” – Paul Bloom “We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods.I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.” – Steve Nash “I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world.When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.” – Bell Hooks Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. “But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone.“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.” – Mahatma Gandhi.“Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.” – Shannon L.A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.” – Herman Melville “There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.” – Idowu Koyenikan.“Volunteers don’t get paid, not because they’re worthless, but because they’re priceless.” – Sherry Anderson.“The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.” – Goethe.“We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.” – Maya Angelou. ![]() People will see your vision and passion and follow you.” – Teyonah Parris Even if you don't feel like you have it in you, it's in you. “It only takes one person to mobilize a community and inspire change.“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi.And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.” – Jodi Picoult Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand they didn't wear boots and capes. “Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand they didn't wear boots and capes.But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.” – Kurt Vonnegut ![]()
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