Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours’, as long as they each earn and have more money than their neighbours, and, equally important, their neighbours know that.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana Abode Abodes Aphorism Aphorisms Aphorist Aphorists Automobile Automobiles Car Cars Cheap Class Classes Compete Competition Consumerism Earn Earnings Expensive Funny Hilarious Home Homes House Houses Humor Humorous Humour Inexpensive Joke Jokes Mansion Mansions Materialism Money Monied Neighbor Neighborhood Neighbors Neighbour Neighbourhood Neighbours Quotations Quotes Residence Resident Residents Rich Richer Salaries Salary Satire Show Off Social Class Social Classes Spirituality Wages

And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Kamand Kojouri Act Aid Assist Awareness Charity Community Consciousness Encourage Help Helping Helping Others Humanity Inspiration Inspirational Inspire Kamand Kamand Kojouri Kojouri Life Love Material Material Things Materialism Neighbour Neighbourhood One World Oneness Own Ownership Poor Possess Possessions Poverty Quote Rich Rich In Spirit Share Sharing Society Superficial Support Think Together Togetherness Unity Uplft Uplifting Vain Vanity Wealth Wealthy World

I believe this; When you have a needy person in your neighbourhood, it's an opportunity for you to become a wealthy and healthy person! Giving time is blessing time!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Israelmore Ayivor Blessing Blessing Time Food For Thought Generosity Generous Giving Giving Time Greedy Health Healthy Healthy Person Israelmore Ayivor Kind Kindness Needy Neighborhood Neighbourhood Opportunity Poor Wealth Wealthy

Now Miss Mapp's social dictatorship among the ladies of Tilling had long been paramount, but every now and then signs of rebellious upheavals showed themselves. By virtue of her commanding personality these had never assumed really serious proportions, for Diva, who was generally the leader in these uprisings, had not the same moral massiveness. But now when Elizabeth was so exceedingly superior, the fumes of Bolshevism mounted swiftly to Diva's head. Moreover, the sight of this puzzling male impersonator, old, wrinkled, and moustached, had kindled to a greater heat her desire to know her and learn what it felt like to be Romeo on the music-hall stage and, after years of that delirious existence, to subside into a bath-chair and Suntrap and Tilling. What a wonderful life! . . . And behind all this there was a vague notion that Elizabeth had got her information in some clandestine manner and had muddled it. For all her clear-headedness and force Elizabeth did sometimes make a muddle and it would be sweeter than honey and the honeycomb to catch her out. So in a state of brooding resentment Diva went home to lunch and concentrated on how to get even with Elizabeth.

~ E.f. Benson

E.f. Benson Humour Neighbourhood Neighbours Satire Social Satire

The UmbrellaIon Bulbuk has bought an umbrella. “Knock-knock” – it is a neighbour at the door. “It is going to rain, Ion. Give me your umbrella, please.”“It is not in the house,” lied Bulbuk. It rains…Bulbuk is walking wet in the yard, for the neighbour to see that the umbrella is not at home. But the neighbour is not watching. He went in the village for his business.

~ Spiridon Vangheli

Spiridon Vangheli Lie Neighbour Neighbourhood Rain Umbrella

It was lonely for a day or so until one morning some man , more recently arrived than I, stopped me on the road. 'How do you get to West Egg village?' he asked helplessly. I told him. Ans as I walked on I was lonely no longer. I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler. He has casually conferred on me the freedom of the neighborhood.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald Lonely Neighbourhood

Social networking platforms drove man closer to those in neighboring continents, while driving him further apart from those in his neighborhood.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana Distance Global Village Internet Neighborhood Neighbourhood Relationships Social Networking Social Networks

Consider a situation where we refuse to pay attention to the less fortunate people in our neighbourhoods. If every single person in the elite of our society will take care of at least one child, most of the street kids would be taken care of. Yet, we act as if it is none of our business.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Sunday Adelaja Care Fortunate Neighbourhood