Quotes About Sufficiency

He is always a slave who cannot live on little.

Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.

Let's say financially. Financially, I personally believe that you should have enough to do the assignment that you feel is part of your life. And whatever that is to do, you're going to need.

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.

Nothing ever happens to me, " she reflected..... An older person at such an hour and in such a place might think that sufficient was happening to him, and rest content. Lucy desired more.

And I know that God and His grace are sufficient for the moment I find myself in. When I wake up tomorrow, whatever the challenges, I know God will be there and will provide His grace. This is my hope. This is my strength.

I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.

Too much of anything is tiresome. Even the best things.

When conditions are such that life offers no earthly hope, somewhere somehow, men must find refuge. Then they fly from the terror without to the citadel within, which famine and pestilence and fire and sword cannot shake. What Goethe calls the inner universe, can live by its own laws, create its own security, be sufficient unto itself, when once reality is denied to the turmoil of the world without.

It may be that there is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

Stuffocation: being overwhelmed by the stuff one has bought or accumulated.

Is the glass half empty, half full, or twice as large as it needs to be?

The world as it is is enough.

I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).

If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.

I don't need to publish to make a living.

I live in a free country. And I have so much more than I need.

Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount.

Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.

I lack nothing. I only needed myself.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

In order to make money the first thing is to have no need of it.

From all your herds, a cup or two of milk, From all your granaries, a loaf of bread, In all your palace, only half a bed: Can man use more? And do you own the rest? —ANCIENT SANSKRIT POEM