Quotes About Abundance

The problem is that wealth ceases to move freely when all things are counted and priced. It may accumulate in great heaps, but fewer and fewer people can afford to enjoy it. After the

Only when the increase of gifts moves with the gift may the accumulated wealth of our spirit continue to grow among us, so that each of us may enter, and be revived by, a vitality beyond his or her solitary powers.

In times of peace, kings and nobles lived by the pleasure principle: eating, drinking, hunting, playing games, copulating, all in ostentatious excess. So at the very period when the myth of the machine was taking form, the problems of an economy of abundance first became visible in the behavior and fantasies of the ruling classes-here, too, mirroring in advance the processes at work in our own age.

Generosity is woven into the fabric of all existence. All living things give and receive all the time. The very act of breathing is a kind of giving and receiving.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

God has given us two hands - one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.

Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.

You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.

I come from an extremely modest background. So now I have way more than what I'm used to.

One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.

How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more.

Free is really, you know, the gift of Silicon Valley to the world. It's an economic force, it's a technical force. It's a deflationary force, if not handled right. It is abundance, as opposed to scarcity.

No one wants growth, constant expansion, physical swelling. Growth is not a human value; it's a means to the ends of sufficiency and security. Once we have enough, no one wants more, unless it is sold to us as a cheap substitute for something else, something non-material.

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

Our dominant values that emphasize competition and scarcity limit continued progress.

But if you've got a bagful of stories it means you've led a rich life, and I'm way behind on that count.

Why dig a hole in the garden, when potatoes grow wild in Finland?

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

It does not have walls splattered with gold leaf like King Midas has had a nosebleed.

L'art ne meurt pas parce qu'il n'y en a plus ; il meurt parce qu'il y en a trop.

Happiness is a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

She didn't think anything could ever spoil her happiness as she filled her gathering basket with nuts.