#hbo

I came from a real tough neighborhood. Why, every time I shut the window I hurt somebody's fingers. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#humour #neighborhoods #funny

A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it, and replied, 'So that the rumor of God may not completely disappear. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#agnosticism #angel #angels #atheism #atheist

Texting and phone calls, fireworks, blends, café au lait, and music. Yesterday's television. Work and beer. The neighbor's dog, or those strange flowers, the way it smells at Maisen. Those ordinary things I talk about with you. With you... I want to talk about love with you. ↗

— Tomoko Yamashita

#coffee #fireworks #flowers #love #maisen

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. ↗

— Jane Austen

#every man #man #neighborhood #spies #surrounded

To love one's neighbor is a tough command. It works better for people who live far away. ↗

— C.J. Langenhoven

#neighbor #love

Men think that it is impossible for a human being to love his enemies, for enemies are hardly able to endure the sight of one another. Well, then, shut your eyes--and your enemy looks just like your neighbor. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#love #neighbor #love

Ought we not to love dearly the neighbor, who truly represents to us the sacred Person of our Master? And is this not one of the most powerful motives we could have for loving each other with an ardently burning love? ↗

— St. Francis de Sales

#love #neighbor #love

Examine your heart often to see if it is such toward your neighbor as you would like his to be toward you were you in his place. This is the touchstone of true reason. ↗

— St. Francis de Sales

#love #neighbor #love

Some people have just rented your body to live in it for sometime and depart. Others consider you as a permanent residence to dwell in forever. Which ever, you must remember to accommodate all those who want to be accommodated. Be each other's keeper ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#accommodation #be-kind #each-others-keepers #friend #friendly

Love is sacrifice. Love sacrifices itself for its neighbor. ↗

— Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

#eastern-orthodoxy #inspirational #love #neighbor #sacrifice