"Life is not about maximizing everything, it's about giving something back - like light, space, form, serenity, joy. You have to give something back."

-- Glenn Murcutt

#Light Quotes #Space Quotes #Giving Quotes

“The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.”
“People would be so much more interesting if they'd behave like who they are, and not like what they think others expect them to be.”
“I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.”
“All the best songs are, I think, the easiest write because they just come out.”
“One's a dog-eat-dog world, and the other one's just the opposite.”
“Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.”
“Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but if you are serious about it you also get to put something into the world that wasn't quite there before.”

Source : "In truth" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2007.
“Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness and pride of power and with its plea for the weak. Christians are doing too little to make these points clear rather than too much. Christendom adjusts itself far too easily to the worship of power. Christians should give more offense, shock the world far more, than they are doing now. Christian should take a stronger stand in favor of the weak rather than considering first the possible right of the strong.”

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