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Quotes About Abundance

A lot of campaigning for food purity is a translated worry about abundance. You still eat your fill, but you agonize over the food's contents. We are a pack of animals that allows some to have excess food while others starve. Those who have so much get finicky about what is good to eat; they become obsessed by it, re-creating scarcity for themselves so as to not feel guilty, confused, or dangerously envied.
~ Jennifer Michael Hecht
And then … she had hardly looked beyond, but there was a great, summer-scented breeze blowing through her spirit, telling her she was young and fair, and wealthy into the bargain
~ Ellis Peters
if you need nothing, you have everything. . .
~ Elmore Leonard
The seas are wide and flow together. They have no borders and have room enough for all fish.
~ Emile Habiby
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
~ Emily Dickinson
Perhaps I asked too large — I take — no less than skies — For Earths, grow thick as Berries, in my native town — My Basket holds — just — Firmaments — Those — dangle easy — on my arm, But smaller bundles — Cram.
~ Emily Dickinson
SUMMER SHOWER. A drop fell on the apple tree, Another on the roof; A half a dozen kissed the eaves, And made the gables laugh. A few went out to help the brook, That went to help the sea. Myself conjectured, Were they pearls, What necklaces could be! The dust replaced in hoisted roads, The birds jocoser sung; The sunshine threw his hat away, The orchards spangles hung. The breezes brought dejected lutes, And bathed them in the glee; The East put out a single flag, And signed the fete away.
~ Emily Dickinson
It's all I have to bring today It's all I have to bring today— This, and my heart beside— This, and my heart, and all the fields— And all the meadows wide— Be sure you count—should I forget Some one the sum could tell— This, and my heart, and all the Bees Which in the Clover dwell.
~ Emily Dickinson
Weeds triumphant ranged
~ Emily Dickinson
If society were only relieved of the waste and expense of keeping a lazy class, and the equally great expense of the paraphernalia of protection this lazy class requires, the social tables would contain an abundance for all, including even the occasional lazy individual.
~ Emma Goldman
Lack of any kind is always traceable to the fact that we have been seeking our supply from some secondary source, instead of from God himself, the author and giver of life.
~ Emmet Fox
Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, "He who is content.
~ Epictetus
It is better to starve to death in a calm and confident state of mind than to live anxiously amidst abundance. And
~ Epictetus
Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, He who is content.
~ Epictetus
At a feast, taking the largest helping may be good for your appetite, but sharing generously is good for the spirit of the celebration. In this case, honoring your hosts and fellow guests should be valued above sating your hunger.
~ Epictetus
Whatever is enough is abundant in the eyes of virtue.
~ Epictetus
we can never have enough of that which we really don't want
~ Eric Hoffer
Tot el m-a ajutat ÅŸi s? cred în tine. Sunt plin? de iubire, Doamne, parc? m? arde pe din?untru, mi-a d?ruit atâta, încât s?-mi ajung? pentru toÅ£ii anii de-acum încolo.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Si tu vois ni ordures ni poubelles, c'est très riche.Si tu vois des poubelles e pas d'ordures,c'est riche.Si tu vois des ordures à côté des poubelles,c'est ni riche,ni pauvre,c'est touristique.Si tu vois les ordures sans les poubelles,c'est pauvre. Et si les gens habitent dans les ordures c'est très très pauvre.Ici c'est riche!...Mais oui,c'est la Suisse!
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
La beauté, Momo, elle est partout. Où que tourne les yeux.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
~ Erich Fromm
The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.
~ Erich Fromm
In the sphere of material things giving means being rich. Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
~ Erich Fromm
Life is richness in many forms. We should all find our own.
~ Amanda Boyden