"God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give."

-- C. S. Lewis

#Giving Quotes #Delight Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Americans have made it clear we want to build a more sustainable future. I am excited to harness that energy and see what we can create together.”
“Rules are, like an ashtray-in-progress, meant to be thrown, poked and reshaped to suit yourself.”
“In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got a puncher's chance.”

Source : "Michele Bachmann's Holy War". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. June 22, 2011.
“A general â€œlaw of least effortâ€ applies to cognitive as well as physical exertion. The law asserts that if there are several ways of achieving the same goal, people will eventually gravitate to the least demanding course of action. In the economy of action, effort is a cost, and the acquisition of skill is driven by the balance of benefits and costs. Laziness is built deep into our nature.”
“If I could walk into the 'Friends' audition again and go or not go, I have to say it's 50-50.”
“Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.”
“I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.”
“Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves; by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.”

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