One man's ceiling is another man's floor. —Paul Simon More about this quote Tags: perspective ceiling Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Christ didn't say, "Love humanity as thyself," but, "Love thy neighbor as thyself," and do you know why? Because your neighbor, by definition, is the person nearby, the man sitting next to you in the underground who smells, perhaps, the man next to you in the queue who maybe tries to barge ahead of you; in short, your neighbor is the person who threatens your own liberty. —Luciano De Crescenzo More about this quote Tags: humanity love freedom liberty Christianity smell neighbor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Throughout recorded time . . . there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative numbers, as well as their attitude towards one another, have varied from age to age: but the essential structure of society has never altered. Even after enormous upheavals and seemingly irrevocable changes, the same pattern has always reasserted itself, just as a gyroscope will always return to equilibrium, however far it is pushed one way or the other. The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. —George Orwell More about this quote Tags: history society wealth class division Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What may be wealth to an individual may not be wealth to a community. —Henry George More about this quote Tags: wealth community Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How can you say you have fulfilled the law and prophets, when it is written in the law that you should love your neighbor as yourself? Look, many of your brothers, sons of Abraham, are covered with filth and dying of hunger. Meanwhile your own house is filled with goods, and not a thing goes out of it to them. —Origen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People had changed — or rather fridges had changed them. Mrs. Munde felt that being able to store food for longer periods had broken down the community spirit. There was no need to share now, no need to meet every day, gathering your veg or killing a few rabbits. —Jeanette Winterson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again. —Bill Bryson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Home, as far as I'm concerned, is the place you have to leave. And then, if you're like me, spend the rest of your life mourning. —Paulette Bates Alden More about this quote Tags: life home place mourning leaving Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood — and what you have chosen is not a man or a job or a neighborhood, but a life. —Jessamyn West More about this quote Tags: life choices choosing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another; loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching. —Willa Cather More about this quote Tags: love hate intimacy closeness small towns Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Your next-door neighbor . . . is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a pianola; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: perception neighbors Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Man made the city, God made the country, but the devil made the small town. —The Reverend Vernon G. McGee More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. —Vincent Van Gogh More about this quote Tags: love people art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Art is spirituality in drag. —Jennifer Yane More about this quote Tags: spirituality art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What was any art but a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself — life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. —Willa Cather More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email