Good morning, digital neighbors! Happy Wednesday to all of you fine souls across Locals and over at Substack. I hope your week is going well. A few quotes about community for your morning ruminations. Some encouragement and some warnings on the importance of community in our lives. Have a great day, my friends! Oh, and autumn photography, of course.

"However, community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another. Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own. The question, therefore, is not ‘How can we make community?’ but, ‘How can we develop and nurture giving hearts?’" — Henri Nouwen

"This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect." — Dwight D. Eisenhower

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and come back to us as effects." — Herman Melville

"Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to." — Orson Scott Card

"I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community." — Howard Schultz

iStock photo - Autumn on lake Gosau in Salzkammergut, Austria