#Appreciation Quotes #Ungrateful People Quotes #Giving Quotes
“If I make a dollar and out of every dollar I'm taxed at 50, half, at 50 cents, I have to give, isn't that like enough?”
Source : "Comedian Jon Lovitz launches expletive-laced tirade against Obama's tax policies". www.foxnews.com. April 24, 2012.
“If you choose to see everything as a miracle, then where you are right now is perfect. There is nowhere to run to; there is nothing else to do except be in this moment and allow what is to be. From that place of radical acceptance, major change can happen. The first step in any transformational experience is acceptance and surrender to the present moment, the way that it is. From that place we have the awareness, humility and power to change what is.”
“Even pleasure cloys without variety.”
“Protectionism is a misnomer. The only people protected by tariffs, quotas and trade restrictions are those engaged in uneconomic and wasteful activity. Free trade is the only philosophy compatible with international peace and prosperity.”
“I think that women can be just completely surprised by the change in them from giving birth-you have something powerful in you-that fierce thing comes up-and I think babies need moms to have that fierceness-you feel like you can do anything and that’s the feeling we want moms to have.”
“The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole.”
Source : Peter Block (2009). “Community: The Structure of Belonging”, p.14, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
“Cath wished she didn't use the word "just" so much. It was her passive-aggressive tell, like someone who twitched when they were lying.”
“The end of the decline of the Stock Market will probably not be long, only a few more days at most.”