Quotes About Sufficiency

Is this true? Those who had world' enough, that is, those engaged in a demanding daily vocation, were short of time while those without regular obligations had more than sufficient time, but no world?

I used to think that it was better to have too much than too little, but now I think if the too much was never supposed to be yours, you should just take what is yours and give the rest back.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

I could stand in the street and sing and get enough to pay the bills. I don't need millions of dollars.

Our needs are minimal.

It is very important to wake up and see that we don't need to borrow anymore. What is available in the here and now is already sufficient for us to be nourished, to be happy. And that is the miracle of mindfulness, concentration, and insight: realizing we can be happy with the conditions that

Our Buddhist sutra tells us that when conditions are sufficient, we see forms, and when conditions are not sufficient, we don't. When all conditions are prsesent, phenomena can be perceived by us, and so they are revealed to us as existing

The Buddha said, "When conditions are sufficient, the thing manifests, and when they are not sufficient, the thing remains hidden.

Too many was too many, but way too many was just right.

Half a loaf is better than no bread

The tighter you squeeze the less you have.

His grace to overlook my silliness in thinking that I knew what to do and bless me with what He knew was best anyway. He promised that His grace was sufficient, that His grace would be enough...

the Lord my God in whom I trust said unto me, Thou shalt lack nothing, for I will bless thee in all the works of thy hands.

All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.

I'm now as free as the breeze — with roughly the same income.

But if it so happens that you find good food and drink, partake of them gladly and sufficiently but not to excess, for men of worth say that one should not live in order to eat, but one should eat in order to live, for no one should eat so much that he is too full, nor drink so much that he is drunk.

It's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

Do you suppose the potter is content with mental creation? Do you suppose the idea is enough?

But I don't want more things than I need, either.

Cómo puedes defender este sistema de vida= !Mira la pobreza! ¿Te gustaría vivir así? -No, Jaguar, pero tampoco me gustaría tener más de lo que se necesita - replicó ella

Me sobra tiempo. Me sobra el futuro completo. Quiero dártelo, hija, porque has perdido el tuyo.

I have an inward treasure born within me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld; or offered only at a price I cannot afford.

Better is half a loaf than no bread.

Better halfe a loafe than no bread.