"The opposite of consumption is not thrift - it is generosity."

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Source : Raj Patel (2009). “The Value Of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy”, p.29, Granta

Raj Patel

#Opposites Quotes #Generosity Quotes #Consumption Quotes

“With a suit, even if you're having a nervous breakdown, you still look like you're in charge.”

Source : "Paul Feig: Underrated Man of the Moment". Interview With Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. May 11, 2011.
“Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control.”
“When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.”
“Being carefree, you can fit in anywhere. If youâ€™re not carefree you keep on bumping up against things. Your life becomes so narrow, so tight; it gets very claustrophobic. Carefree means being wide open from within, not constricted. Carefree doesnâ€™t mean careless. It is not that you donâ€™t care about others, not that you donâ€™t have compassion or are unfriendly. Carefree is being really simple, from the inside. Dignity is not conceit but rather what shines forth from this carefree confidence.”
“I was trying to learn how to deal with the freedom that I had away from home for the first time. 'Long Black Train,' the song and the album, are very special to me. It was just one of those things that I felt like God gave to me for a purpose, and I've been out here promoting that purpose.”
“The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.”
“These are beautiful days. Folks ask what I'm doing. I tell them I'm doing family.”
“We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.”

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