#neighbor

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There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.


C.S. Lewis


#neighbor #ordinary-people #religion #art

One must love God first, and only then can one love one's closest of kin and neighbors. We must not be idols to one another, for such is not the will of God.


Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica


#eastern-orthodoxy #family #god #idolatry #love

Girl going past clinging to a young man's arm. Putting up her face like a duck to the moon. Drinking joy. Green in her eyes. Spinal curvature. No chin, mouth like a frog. Young man like a pug. Gazing down at his sweetie with the face of a saint reading the works of God. Hold on, maiden, you've got him. He's your boy. Look out, Puggy, that isn't a maiden you see before you, it's a work of imagination. Nail him, girlie. Nail him to the contract. Fly laddie, fly off with your darling vision before she turns into a frow, who spends all her life thinking of what the neighbours think.


Joyce Cary


#gulley-jimson #imagination #maidens #pugs #spinal-curvature

Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their power), but here, no, here, it is unthinkable, here there is abiding peace, the peace of God, and the serene security created by a handful of good neighbors living at one with the creature world.


Henry Miller


#california #ecology #environment #good-neighbors #nature

Discover the fulfillment of intimate relationships with flesh-and-blood neighbors and teammates in concrete place and time, and we escape the pressure of mainstream media to channel intimacy only as virtual embrace.


Jose Panate-Aceves and John Hayes


#neighbors #relationships #relationship

It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.


Jon J. Muth


#neighbors #spelling #zen #ocean

Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful.


John R. Allen


#constructive #critical #extent #going #here

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.


Minna Antrim


#know #neighbors #self #wisdom

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.


Francis Bacon


#hating #loving #neighbors #our #ourselves

The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.


Chinua Achebe


#down #high #hostility #level #lived