Quotes About Sufficiency

I am a happier person living in a country which has surplus of everything rather than shortages.

It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation.

There is always enough for everyone, if you share it properly, or if it has been shared properly before you got there. There is enough food, enough love, enough homes, enough time, enough crayons, enough people to be friends with each other.

Since we humans do not want to return to the old selfish ways where we let the children of too-large families starve to death, we have abolished the family as a unit of economic self-sufficiency, and substituted the state.

I can't be my own mother

A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.

Man cannot breathe with borrowed lungs.

Better spare to have of thine own, then aske of other men. [Better spare to have of thine own than ask of other men.]

The real implication of equal distribution is that each man shall have the wherewithal to supply all his natural needs and no more.

A man needs enough...no less, no more.

Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.

Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without at all seeing the force of either the one or the other.

Man is entitled by birthright to a share of the earth's produce sufficient to fill the needs of his existence.

Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his wants.

Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.

It is possible that these may all be insufficient to control the caprice and wickedness of man. But are they not all that government will admit, and all that human prudence can devise?

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

I can at any moment convert my time into money, but I do not require more of the latter than is sufficient for necessary purposes.

Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.

The goal should not be to make money or acquire things, but to achieve the consciousness through which the substance will flow forth when and as you need it.

Money's an instrument. The Bible says money answereth all things.

I got my computer. The great thing about the computer is that you only need enough money to buy a computer and some food, and you're all right. I don't have to go to premières.

Money is not everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

You say that money isn't everything, well I'd like to see you live without it.