Quotes About Abundance

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

Something good happens to you, and you let off a different energy that attracts other good things.

A Terrestrial Paradise, an Amazon Island, abounding in gold and certainly 'infested with many griffins.

Lessons: Diversity = resilience. Abundance = resilience. to survive catastrophe, you need a surplus, a reservoir, money under the mattress, food in the fridge. If you're already starving, you won't survive a famine. Take the world down to the bone and the only thing that flourishes are boneyards; the only thing that expands is collapse.

A handful of sand contains about 10,000 grains, more than the number of stars we can see with the naked eye on a clear night. But the number of stars we can see is only the tiniest fraction of the number of stars that are. What we see at night is the merest smattering of the nearest stars. Meanwhile the Cosmos is rich beyond measure: the total number of stars in the universe is greater than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.

Life is profligate, blind at this level unconcerned with notions of justice. It can afford to waste multitudes.

If nature represents a principle of economy, then culture surely must exemplify the principle of innovation through excess.

Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.

Los historiadores han observado que es en las épocas de abundancia cuando se siente el deseo de ir a la guerra. En tiempos de hambruna, la gente está demasiado ocupada intentando encontrar algo que comer. Cuando sólo tienen lo justo para ir tirando, las personas tienden a ser afables y educadas. Pero cuando se les sirve un banquete, enseguida deciden que ha llegado el momento de discutir quién se sienta dónde.

Social change takes time. Communities are built on the practice of patience and imagination - the belief that we are here for the duration and will take care of our relations in times of both drought and abundance. These are the blood and flesh gestures of commitment.

was more than their family could ever eat, but that was the point; an abundance of both food and love.

you should rejoice in what you do have.

If you have mindfulness, if you feel safe, you recognize that you have plenty of conditions to be happy already, and that you don't need to run into the future in order to get a few more conditions.

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Ninety percent of everything is crap.

It is possible to live happily in the here and now. So many conditions of happiness are available—more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.

Dear friends, do you know that you are lucky people? You don't have any cows to lose.

spend time with your food; every minute of your meal should be happy. Not many people have the time and the opportunity to sit down and enjoy a meal like that. We are very fortunate.

The wheat field needs clouds and sunshine. So in this slice of bread there is sunshine, there is cloud, there is the labor of the farmer, the joy of having flour, and the skill of the baker and then—miraculously!—there is the bread. The whole cosmos has come together so that this piece of bread can be in your hand. You don't need to do a lot of hard work to get this insight. You only need to stop letting your mind carry you away with worrying, thinking, and planning.

What we have is enough for us. Once we adopt that style of living, we become a happy person right away.

I have everything I need. Our house is very joyful.

Nobody is in the world should be deprived of the joys of eating.

I don't spend money on the lavish life, but I spend on excessive green juices.

If you're going to start a fire, why cook just one chicken?