![The people with the best sense of what is essential to a community, of what gives and maintains its spirit, are often doing very humble, manual tasks. It is often the poorest person - the one who has a handica[p, is] ill or old - who is the most prophetic. People who carry responsibility must be close to them and know what they think, because it is often they who are free enough to see with the greatest clarity the needs, beauty and pain of the community.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-people-with-the-best-sense-of-what-is-essential-to-a-community-of-what-gives.jpg)
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pain heart night
We say, then, to anyone who is under trial, give Him time to steep the soul in His eternal truth. Go into the open air, look up into the depths of the sky, or out upon the wideness of the sea, or on the strength of the hills that is His also; or, if bound in the body, go forth in the spirit; spirit is not bound. Give Him time and, as surely as dawn follows night, there will break upon the heart a sense of certainty that cannot be shaken. Amy Carmichael
pain remember forget
Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard. Ally Condie
pain growth pleasant
Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth. Anthony de Mello
pain stupid rain
Let’s suppose that rain washes out a picnic. Who is feeling negative? The rain? Or you? What’s causing the negative feeling? The rain or your reaction? When you bump your knee against a table, the table’s fine. It’s busy being what it was made to be – a table. The pain is in your knee, not in the table. The mystics keep trying to tell us that reality is all right. Reality is not problematic. Problems exist only in the human mind. We might add: in the stupid, sleeping human mind.
pain misery parts-of-life
Pain is a part of life...misery is an option. Annette Funicello
pain royal behinds
I'm a royal pain in the behind. Cristina Saralegui
pain common-sense common
I wanna be your happiness. I wanna be your common sense pain. Conor Oberst
pain journey men
When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each other. This feeling should make men and women use their best efforts to help their fellow travelers on the road, to make the path brighter and easier as we journey on. It should bring a closer kinship, a better understanding, and a deeper sympathy for the wayfarers who must live a common life and die a common death. Clarence Darrow
pain thinking color
I'm the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics. Daniel Dennett
humble godly cowboy
No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble. Annie Proulx
responsibility men doe
I fought for the values of responsibility, and I'm not a man who does not accept his responsibilities. Nicolas Sarkozy
responsibility government demand
Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility. Lyn Nofziger
responsibility opportunity helping
...where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility. Lyndon B. Johnson
responsibility trouble deny
There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
responsibility cells research
We have a responsibility to promote stem cell research which could lead to treatments and cures for diseases affecting millions of Americans. Louise Slaughter
responsibility practice wings
I must confess that I and a few others are burdened with heavy responsibilities regarding the future of criticism. I am certainly, if not the inventor, then at least one of the first systematizers of an absurd critical practice that, as soon as it had peeked its beak out of the nest, flapping its new wet wings, took flight in the minds of the young, becoming a wild ox and sowing avant-garde literature with the mighty tomes of what might as well be called the abstract bear. Louis Aragon
responsibility sake generations
We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations. Loretta Lynch
responsibility long effort
We are all just here for a time-whether in this building or even on this earth. But the values we hold dear will live on long after we have left this stage. Our responsibility, while we are here, is to breathe life into them; to imbue them with the strength of our convictions and the weight of our efforts.
responsibility lds voice
There are conversations going on about the Church constantly. Those conversations will continue whether or not we choose to participate in them. But we cannot stand on the sidelines while others, including our critics, attempt to define what our Church teaches... We are living in a world saturated with all kinds of voices. Perhaps now, more than ever, we have a major responsibility as Latter-day Saints to define ourselves, instead of letting others define us. M. Russell Ballard