Quotes About Abundance

Bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it.

For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land.

The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

Thou crownest the year with thy goodness.

Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked.

Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.

what thoughtful rich people call the problem of poverty, thoughtful poor people call with equal justice a problem of riches.

A whole fresh tuna, a wicker basket of San Marzano tomatoes, a crate of anchovies, great handfuls of parsley... Dozens of new potatoes, still encrusted with the black volcanic earth of Campania, their flesh golden as egg yolks... A pale wheel of parmesan, big as a truck tire... A sack full of blooded watermelons... An armful of mint, its leaves so dark green they were almost black...

Life is a banquet. And the tragedy is that most people are starving to death.

And you will understand how true it is that everyone who stops clinging to brothers or sisters, father, mother or children, land or houses Ã¢â'¬Â¦ is repaid a hundred times over and gains eternal life.

Could you give me the inner richness that makes it possible for you to so easily give away this thing that would have made you the richest man in the world?

I used to think...that I had to be careful with how much I lived. As if life was a pocketful of coins. You only got so much and you didn't want to spend it all in one place...But now I know that life is the one thing in the world that never runs out. I might run out of mine, and you might run out of yours, but the world will never run out of life. And we're all very lucky to be part of something like that.

The universe is full of fuel.

plumpest raisins, finest custards, salmon and sardines… … came the tortoise, the honeycakes, poppies and squills, and the ·[next?]·Ã¢â'¬Â¦ … I ate until I could ·[burst?]·, then ate more…

The birds fly in the wrong places and there are too many stars in the sky.

How innocent, how happy, how truly delightful, even, would life be if we were to desire nothing but what is to be found upon the face of the earth: in a word, nothing but what is provided ready to our hands!

The good Lord was the one who provided everything for me.

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

My goals as governor are to help all North Carolinians be better educated, healthier and have more money in their pockets so that they can live more abundant, purposeful lives.

If you believe, like I do, that the world is abundant with possibilities, then we need to make sure we build capacity so that everybody is successful or can be successful in the pursuit of their dreams - not the dreams of someone from government, but their own dreams.

When the flower blossoms, the bee will come.

If I were really rich, I would be flying places, I think.

The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.

We're very blessed, just very fortunate to have the things we have.