Quotes About Sufficiency

I was never interested in money. I always looked down on it. But now that I have less money, I see that without money, you cannot do much. Everything in the end is about money.

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you're not doing a tour of gas stations.

I have more money than I am ever going to need. Financially, I'm fine for the next couple of hundred years.

Money gives me just one big thing that's really important, and that's the freedom of not having to worry about money.

The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it.

I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy, just independently lazy, I suppose.

Managing your money does not depend upon becoming wealthy or declaring vows of poverty. Rather, it is about creating stability and sufficiency - a balanced flow of monetary energy through your life.

It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.

You must have some money if you are going to live simply. It need not be much, but you must have some.

As long as you have money to live then it's not a terribly important thing. If you don't have enough to live, then it's very important thing.

What is money, after all? Almost nothing, when one has a sufficiency of it.

Money is really like blood. You need it to live but it isn't the point of life.

Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'.

Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity.

There is enough dough in the world to make bread for us all to eat together.

Lack of money is no poverty.

God put a certain potential into us that is totally sufficient to carry out the assigned task

All the money anyone needs is just enough to prevent one from being a burden to others. -Bishop Milton Wright

Try to live with whatever you can afford and avoid putting yourself in an awkward position of thinking how you can afford what you have failed to afford, please free your life on earth.

I was happy, I wasnt beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasnt what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I dont know how my mother did it.

My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.

Allow not nature more than nature needs.

If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments [if] one suffices.

O grant me, Heaven, a middle state, Neither too humble nor too great; More than enough, for nature's ends, With something left to treat my friends.