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Quotes About Abundance

11. The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
~ Oprah Winfrey
There are three things you must do in order to become wealthy. You must have the right mindset, discover your purpose in life, and find a business that expresses that purpose.
~ Andy Fuehl
Give the world the best you have, and the best will come to you.
~ Madeline Bridge
Happy Wednesday! May the day ahead bring you an abundance of joy, love, peace & happiness… And ignite the flowering essence & spark the wonderful light within you.
~ Babz
We don't have to wait until we are old to gather the riches... We can gather them every day of our lives.
~ Susan Jeffers
Post-Scarcity Age, you don't pay for things. Abundance.
~ Jason Silva
Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious.
~ Henry Theodore Tuckerman
What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is always wise to make too much potato salad. Even if you are cooking for two, make enough for five. Potato salad improves with age - that is, if you are lucky enough to have any left over.
~ Laurie Colwin
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
Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.
~ John Selden
Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.
~ Joan Collins
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
~ Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Excess of everything is worst
~ even if it is best otherwise.
I think of the amazing things that were going on. So it's so rich. The doors keep opening.
~ Anne Waldman
Any abundance, in any amount, is illusory if it does not safeguard its producers.
~ Wendell Berry
The preserver of abundance is excellence.
~ Wendell Berry
We don't need much imagination to imagine that to be free of hatred, of enmity, of the endless and hopeless effort to oppose violence with violence, would be to have life more abundantly. To be free of indifference would be to have life more abundantly. To be free of the insane rationalizations for our desire to kill one another-that surely would be to have life more abundantly.
~ Wendell Berry
CONCERNED AS HE is that the usable be put to use, that there be no waste, still there is nothing utilitarian or mechanistic about Mr. Lapp's farm—or his mind. His aim, it seems, is not that the place should be put to the fullest use, but that it should have the most abundant life.
~ Wendell Berry
The idea was that when faced with abundance one should consume abundantly – an idea that has survived to become the basis of our present economy. It is neither natural nor civilized, and even from a 'practical' point of view it is to the last degree brutalizing and stupid.
~ Wendell Berry
The idea was that when faced with abundance one should consume abundantly -an idea that has survived to become the basis of our present economy. It is neither natural nor civilized, and even from a practical point of view it is to the last degree brutalizing and stupid.
~ Wendell Berry
Oh Lord, make us able To eat all that's on this table, And if there's some we haven't got Bring it to us while it's hot
~ Wendell Berry
Telling a story is like reaching into a granary full of wheat and drawing out a handful. There is always more to tell than can be told. As almost any barber can testify, there is also more than needs to be told, and more than anybody wants to hear.
~ Wendell Berry
What is the effect on quantity of persuading a producer to produce an inferior product? What, in other words, is the relation of pride or craftsmanship to abundance? That is another question the "agribusinessmen" and their academic collaborators do not ask. They do not ask it because they are afraid of the answer: The preserver of abundance is excellence.
~ Wendell Berry