“I lived in a community where celibacy was the rule. My I saw many people asked to leave the ashram for so much as looking intensely at a member of the opposite sex.” PeopleSexCommunitySawsMembersOppositesRamaCelibacy Author:Frederick Lenz
“Generosity is luck going in the opposite direction, away from you. If you're generous to someone, if you do something to help him out, you are in effect making him lucky. This is important. It's like inviting yourself into a community of good fortune.” IfsImportantHelpingCommunityEffectsLuckyOppositesLuckFortuneGenerosityGenerousGood FortuneInvitingAway From You Author:Twyla Tharp
“The opposite of humility is arrogance--the belief that we are wiser or better than others. Arrogance promotes separation rather than community. It looms like a brick wall between us and those from whom we could learn.” BeliefCommunityHumilityWallOppositesSeparationArroganceWiserBricksBrick Wall Author:John Templeton
“[The integrative system] deals with such matters as respect, legitimacy, community, friendship, affection, love, and of course their opposites, across a broad scale of human relationships and interactions.” HumansMatterCoursesCommunityDealsOppositesAffectionScalesBroadsInteractionHuman RelationsHuman RelationshipsLegitimacy Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“Having a child is the polar opposite experience of the awards season experience. The awards-season experience requires you to be out in the community, in the heart of the community, at the nucleus of the film community in a really committed way for about a six-month period of time. Having a child requires you to nest, to be in your home, and to create and make your home and environment that is one that is potentially very welcoming and nurturing for a child.” WayHeartChildrenHomeFilmCommunityEnvironmentMonthsPeriodsSixOppositesSeasonsCommittedWelcomeAwardsSix MonthsNestsNurturingNucleusPolar Opposites Author:Mahershala Ali
“I was worried that I, the artist Morimura, would have conflicts with the participating artists and develop a strenuous relationship with them. But the actual experience was completely the opposite. The artists accepted my requests rather positively, because it came from a fellow artist. I strongly feel that the fact that my being an artist avoided the usual curator vs artist tension, and led to creating a positive atmosphere as well as developing a solidarity amongst artists and building a community for artists.” FeelsWellsFactsArtistCommunityBuildingConflictCreatingOppositesFellowsAcceptedDevelopingWorriedAtmosphereTensionUsualSolidarityPositivelyAvoidedRequestParticipatingBeing An ArtistCurator Author:Yasumasa Morimura
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” PeopleIfsLoveLifeInspirationalHumansHeartPersonsInspirationMotivationalReligionHatePeaceBornCommunityInspiringLearningSocietyHuman NaturePositiveTaughtColorPoliticianRacismHatredSkinsOppositesI HateBackgroundsDiscriminationHatedLgbtSouth AfricaHuman HeartLove HateApartheidHuman DignityLove And HateHate PeopleSkin ColorHate HimAnti RacismLearning To LoveLong WalksLong Walk To FreedomLove Or HateEducation And FreedomI Hate PeoplePeace HarmonyPeace And ToleranceAnti DiscriminationInspirational FreedomNo HateHated LoveHate ReligionHate GodDiscrimination And RacismEnding RacismNatural LoveAgainst RacismJustice And Love Author:Nelson Mandela
“What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.” PeopleDoneMightJoyCommunityProduceSolitudeOppositesDesperation Author:Junot Diaz
“Community is a sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either ignore or fight each other. It is a sign that we don't need a lot of money to be happy--in fact, the opposite.” PeopleWorldNeedsFactsFightingCommunityLove IsOppositesLots Of MoneyMaterialisticMaterialistic World Book:Community and Growth Source: Community and Growth
“I would rather commit a sin of commission than a sin of omission, and the evangelical community is exactly the opposite. The evangelical community would rather not do something wrong and the price they're willing to pay for not doing something wrong is they're willing to fail to do something right; they're so afraid of making a mistake. Now the reason they're afraid of making a mistake is they're cowards and our community produces cowards.” ReasonCommunitySinPayMistakeFailingProduceWillingOppositesCommitMaking MistakesCowardOur CommunityEvangelicalOmission Author:J.P. Moreland
“Listen, the environmental movement is not about protecting the fishes and the birds so much as recognizing that nature is the infrastructure of our communities ... If you're saying the values that drive the environmental movement are uncool and antithetical to America, then I would argue just the opposite. If you think being patriotic is not cool, I'd say that's not true either. I'd say the most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.” IfsThinkingTryingCareAmericaValuesCan DoCommunityEnvironmentMovementBirdOppositesEnvironmentalFishesTake CareArguingPatrioticRecognizingInfrastructureOur CommunityUncoolMost Patriotic Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.