Quotes About Sufficiency

Poverty without debt is independence.

enough. Nothing else really counts at all." Nature

All you can do is all you can do. But all you can do is enough

So most of us pray not for riches, but for just enough to assure our living in normal comfort and perhaps a little extra for funeral expenses at the end.

I tell people all the time: All I need is gas money.

I genuinely have to work - I don't have enough money not to. But the last thing I would want is to be looked after.

If you have only a glass of water, then one person can drink. If you have a bucket, a whole family can benefit.

No, I thank you; I have had an elegant sufficiency of the numerous delicacies. Any more would be an unsophisticated superfluity, for gastronomic satiety admonishes me that I have reached the ultimate stage of deglutition consistent with dietetic integrity.

The word enough does not exist in Love's vocabulary

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.

Goat shit small, but goat shit plenty.

Take all away. I am content to know Such love is mine-for life is all too brief To grieve for pleasures bringing only grief; Give me but You; it is enough just so.

He(kala babu) was always heard saying, 'keep people's bellies full and balls empty

Every human being lives in a perpetual state of insufficiency.

I do not regard a man as poor, if the little which remains is enough for him.

he is poor, who has need of another, and has not from himself all things that are useful for life.

la naturaleza también nos dio su medida, también nos la dio del comer y del beber, no obstante, tú sobrepasas lo que es suficiente. Pero

It's old light, and there's not much of it. But it is enough to see by.

I have enough daily bread, so I won't waste time on that. It isn't the main problem. The problem is getting it down without choking on it.

For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.

When you don't have enough or you run out, you feel in your core that the leak has begun and there will be no end to the leakage. And this makes you feel like a chump. Whereas having some money gives you the conviction that you're not naked in the howling wind, even though you basically are, existentially.

To ask how little, not how much, can I get along with. To say—is it necessary?—when I am tempted to add one more accumulation to my life, when I am pulled toward one more centrifugal activity.