Quotes About Abundance

One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually.

If we lived more simply most of the time, our feasts would be distinctive events. As it is, since most Americans have all kinds of special things to eat every day, for many the only way to make Thanksgiving and Christmas feasts uncommon is by eating more. It would be good if we could restore the concept of feasting not as something to regret (don't we all have to lose a few pounds after the Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's season?), but as a delight.

Our negative ceasing to possess must be accompanied by a positive choosing to be generous.

El operario hábil selecciona con sumo cuidado el contenido de ese vano disponible que es su cabeza. Sólo de herramientas útiles se compondrá su arsenal, pero éstas serán abundantes y estarán en perfecto estado.

ich so sehr eine Konkurrenz für Dich, wie eine Pfütze als Meer gilt

We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack.

In short, a large part of the powers of the human race is taken away from the production of what is necessary, in order to bring what is superfluous and unnecessary within the reach of a few.

Avutia este ca apa sarata: cu cat bei cu-atit ti-e mai sete.

Sleep came to them, quick and easy, like money to millionaires.

More rice, for the price of a river.

We are a species that evolved to survive starvation, not resist abundance

I should imagine that in my time I have eaten enough horses to provide a royal escort.

We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.

To acknowledge privilege is the first step in making it available for wider use. Each of us is blessed in some particular way, whether we recognize our blessings or not.

We had a wealth of something we didn't want, but the wealth itself was intoxicating and we invented games, just so we could experience the sensation of having too much of something.

Thank God for the things that I do not own.

Oh, miseria de la existencia humana que oscila eternamente entre la escasez y el exceso!».

I don't believe less is more. I believe that more is more. I believe that less is less, fat fat, thin thin and enough is enough.

It's good to dream. We can't out-give God. We can't out-love him, and we can't out-dream him.

Paul says in Philippians 4:19, 'And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.' Our needs won't be met according to the destitution of the world or to the poverty of our own faith in the moment but according to the riches in Jesus. There's no one richer than him!

Il mondo si divide in: quelli che mangiano il cioccolato senza pane; quelli che non riescono a mangiare il cioccolato se non mangiano anche il pane; quelli che non hanno il cioccolato; quelli che non hanno il pane. (Dai detti celebri di nonno Socrate)

A lack of being remains unaffected by a plenitude of having.

Deathless" (amata) is another word for abundant life. If we think of M?ra as death (the words amata and m?ra are both rooted in the Vedic m = death), then to no longer be constrained by his armies is to be freed to live fully. Gotama does not think of the deathless as immortality—as the term is understood in Brahmanism—but as the positive absence of reactivity.

There is nothing one can have that one cannot fear to lose. Instead of living life in order to have more abundantly, live life in order to be more abundantly.