Quotes About Accumulation

Roughly speaking, it is the loosely organized set of facts, observations, experiences, insights, and pieces of received wisdom that each of us accumulates over a lifetime, in the course of encountering, dealing with, and learning from, everyday situations.

Life is enriched by aspiration and effort, rather than by acquisition and accumulation.

Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.

People come to poverty in two ways accumulating debts and paying them off.

The first five—generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, and concentration—are related to the sublime accumulation of merit, while the sixth paramita corresponds to the great accumulation of wisdom.150 Aside from these two accumulations of wisdom and method united, there is no other means of attaining buddhahood.

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.

From this study, it becomes clear that . . . good luck accumulates, as does bad luck. People are in poor health and are poverty-stricken and get let down, and vice versa. It is totally unfair. And the only real predictor of good or bad luck is the ability to deal with setbacks. Those who can best cope with setbacks have the greatest chance of fortune.

Calculaba cuántas veces habíamos hecho el amor. Tenía la impresión de que, cada vez se había añadido algo más a nuestra relación, pero también de que precisamente esa acumulación de gestos y de placer era sin duda lo que iba a alejarnos el uno del otro. Estábamos agotando un capital de deseo".

The thing with bookshelves, no matter how many you have, you always fill them.

The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.

El dolor se acumula, decía mi amigo, eso es un hecho, y cuanto mayor sea el dolor menor es la casualidad.

One other factor tempted the railroads to come to terms with Rockefeller: In a farsighted tactical maneuver, he had begun to accumulate hundreds of tank cars, which would be in perpetually short supply.

No detail was too trivial to escape his notice, and he often spouted the Scottish adage "Many mickles make a muckle"—that is, tiny things add up.

There was now a self-perpetuating quality to his wealth.

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories. —Walter Benjamin, "Unpacking My Library

Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

Our lives show the accumulation of all of our varied wishes. Wanting something with all your heart will begin to slough away all of your untrue and idle wishes. Success comes from an undivided heart.

The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.

Success with a small s is based on accumulation and materialism. Success with a large S is based on the unfoldment of our soul and the generosity of Spirit made manifest by the giving of our gifts.

We measure success by accumulation. The measure is false. The true measure is appreciation. He who loves most has most.

It used to surprise me, the intensity with which I still remembered these distant memories. But when I entered my fifties...I understood their enduring clarity....In the end, what adds up to a life is nothing more than the accumulation of small daily moments.

What adds up to a life is nothing more than the accumulation of small daily moments.

By then I'd knocked around enough to know that, in the end, what adds up to a life is nothing more than the accumulation of small daily moments.

Materialistic people, who think happiness comes from accumulating stuff and a superior status, had much higher levels of depression and anxiety.