Quotes About Abundance

There may be fewer people in the American house of the nineties, but there are a lot more things.

You devour a book meant to be read, not because you would fill yourself or have an anxious care to be nourished, but because it contains such stuff as it makes the mind hungry to look upon. Neither do you read it to kill time, but to lengthen time, rather, adding to its natural usury by living the more abundantly while it lasts, joining another's life and thought to your own.

I've never had a block. I'm talking within the limits of my abilities. But in my own small way, I've had an embarrassment of riches. I'll have five ideas and I'm dying to do them all. It takes weeks or months where I agonize and obsess over which to do next. I wish sometimes someone would choose for me. If someone said, Do idea number three next, that would be fine. But I have never had any sense of running dry.

All mankind look forward with pleasure to festival days, except kings; for their tables, being always supplied with abundance, admit of no addition on festive occasions; so that, first of all, in the pleasure derived from anticipation they are decidedly inferior to private individuals.

As for those ... who can obtain by lawful means whatever they need, how can we consider them poor?

The more dishes a man has on his table beyond what is sufficient, the sooner satiety in eating comes upon him.

The chicken in the coop has grain but the soup pot is near; the wild crane has none but its world is vast.

What a stroke of good luck to be harvesting the fruits of a life once well lived.

even small acts of generosity, especially when motivated by the best intention, can become causes for much greater wealth in the future.

Having money means more opportunity to practice generosity," he agrees. "Which is the true cause of wealth.

Fresh food is a luxury everyone can afford.

That's the prayer God loves to answer. Have you ever prayed, "Lord, give me more money so I can give more money to someone else"? "For your work"? This is how Jesus prays: "Give this to me and then I can give more to you. Give me more time and I'll give more time to you. Give me more energy and I'll have more energy to give to you." Jesus was right to pray, "Give glory to me,

An amplifier host is a creature in which a virus or other pathogen replicates—and from which it spews—with extraordinary abundance. Some aspect of the host's physiology, or its immune system, or its particular history of interaction with the bug, or who knows what, accounts for this especially hospitable role.

The fossil record shows that no other species of large-bodied beast—above the size of an ant, say, or of an Antarctic krill—has ever achieved anything like such abundance as the abundance of humans on Earth right now.

From the ecological point of view an outbreak can be defined as an explosive increase in the abundance of a particular species that occurs over a relatively short period of time." Then, in the same bland tone, he noted: "From this perspective, the most serious outbreak on the planet earth is that of the species Homo sapiens.

landscapes that formerly supported wild herbivores, are just another form of human impact. They're a proxy measure of our appetites, and we are hungry. We are prodigious, we are unprecedented. We are phenomenal. No other primate has ever weighed upon the planet to anything like this degree. In ecological terms, we are almost paradoxical: large-bodied and long-lived but grotesquely abundant. We are an outbreak.

In ecological terms, we are almost paradoxical: large-bodied and long-lived but grotesquely abundant. We are an outbreak.

the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, . . . it all runs to leaves, to suckers, to tendrils, to miscellany, . . . formless, has no terrible & no beautiful condensation.

The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves.

It's true I'm not very well off But I feel richer than Boris Karloff Because I'm a poet, because I know you And because I know how much I need Which isn't much but it's easy to bluff That you have enough when you have the freedom To know pretty well when enough is enough. —

today the menu is Kung Fu Chicken. And it's ALL YOU CAN EAT, BABY.

There's more than enough for the many, but somehow never enough for the few

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.

Thoreau once said that a man's riches are based on what he can do without. Perhaps in needing less, you're actually getting more.