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Quotes About Sufficiency

Does anyone really need 50 percent more of plenty? The
~ Bill Bryson
Debt comes from wanting more than God's current provision for your life and arranging other ways to get it.
~ Bill Hybels
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.
~ Billie Holiday
God is enough for them.
~ Blaise Pascal
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one needs. (Page 11)
~ Blaise Pascal
Mejor sería ganarse la vida pero mi vida es mía, solo mía, mi vida no necesito ganármela.
~ Boris Vian
Estoy enamorado de ti —susurró. De entre todas las cosas, ésa era la única que iba bien. Y era suficiente.
~ Sylvia Day
Now, ten or more years later, far away from her home or even any thought of having a home, she again touched the feeling from that long ago day, being alone but not lonely, of being solitary yet sufficient.
~ Tad Williams
To breathe was patently an act of will, each time more was taken than was needed, and yet found to be inadequate.
~ Tanith Lee
What love can you possibly need from the world if you are already full of His? None.
~ Ted Dekker
Ahora dormir no logro porque el amor es mi sueño y he tenido suficiente para que dure una semana
~ Ted Dekker
God, of your goodness, give me yourself; you are enough for me, and anything less that I could ask for would not do you full honor. And if I ask anything that is less, I shall always lack something, but in you alone I have everything'.
~ Julian of Norwich
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.
~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.
~ Frank A. Clark
there is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.
~ Frank Buchmann-Moller
The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
when men perceive the world as being right, we are content. But if we see a hole -a deficiency - we scramble to fill it.
~ Brandon Sanderson
No te preocupes si no das a la gente lo que quieren. Dale quien eres, y que eso sea suficiente.
~ Brandon Sanderson
As I asked more pointed questions about the choices and behaviors Wholehearted men and women made to reduce anxiety, they explained that reducing anxiety meant paying attention to how much they could do and how much was too much, and learning how to say, "Enough." They got very clear on what was important to them and when they could let something go.
~ Brene Brown
The opposite of "never enough" isn't abundance or "more than you could ever imagine." The opposite of scarcity is enough, or what I call Wholeheartedness.
~ Brene Brown
Get Deliberate: When I'm flooded with fear and scarcity, I try to call forward joy and sufficiency by acknowledging the fear, then transforming it into gratitude. I say this out loud: "I'm feeling vulnerable. That's okay. I'm so grateful for ____________." Doing this has absolutely increased my capacity for joy.
~ Brene Brown
The opposite of scarcity is not abundance; the opposite of scarcity is simply enough.
~ Brene Brown
If the opposite of scarcity is enough, then practicing gratitude is how we acknowledge that there's enough and that we're enough.
~ Brene Brown
Sufficiency isn't an amount at all. It is an experience, a context we generate, a declaration, a knowing that there is enough, and that we are enough.
~ Brene Brown