Quotes About Abundance

People convince themselves that they have been robbed when they have not, in fact, been robbed. Such thinking comes from a wretched allegiance to the notion of scarcity - from the belief that the world is a place of dearth, and that there will never be enough of anything to go around.

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People convince themselves that they have been robbed when they have not, in fact, been robbed. Such thinking comes from a wretched allegiance to the notion of scarcity—from the belief that the world is a place of dearth, and that there will never be enough of anything to go around. The motto of this mentality is: Somebody else got mine.

Pliny the Elder wrote once: "If anyone will consider the abundance of Rome's public supply of water, for baths, cisterns, ditches, houses, gardens, villas; and take into account the distance over which it travels, the arches reared, the mountains pierced, the valleys spanned—he will admit that there never was anything more marvelous in the whole world.

And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.

I've never stood on a piece of ground as throbbingly, even pornographically, generative.

Marilynne Robinson calls "an overabundance that is magical." That magical overabundance?

The unnecessary and superfluous volume of pure beauty around here is not the be believed.

You see, I have never felt the need to invent a world beyond this world, for this world has always seemed large and beautiful enough for me.

The world had scaled itself down into endless inches of possibility. Her life could be lived in generous miniature.

Then he dived back into the storage compartment and came back up with a hamper containing a small bottle of milk for the tea, a basket of peeled hard-boiled eggs, ham sliced so thin it was nearly transparent, crumbling sharp cheese, crusty bread, a cold raspberry tart, and several crisp apples, all served on China plates.

Remember always to give. That is the thing that will make you grow...

Fortunately, though she was hungry, she didn't mind missing a meal. Life was full of meals. They took up an enormous proportion of one's time.

We are none of us ever thankful enough, and yet we each get so much, so very much, more than we deserve.

the teeming plant life rejoices on the lawns free from all interference from men and hoes;

It is not what you have, it's what you don't have that counts.

In my food world, there is no fear or guilt, only joy and balance. So no ingredient is ever off-limits. Rather, all of the recipes here follow my Usually-Sometimes-Rarely philosophy. Notice there is no Never.

The manifold gifts of God are there to be delighted in, to fall short of joy would be ingratitude.

How can one expect a state of abundance to be everlasting?

and several gold sovereigns and threw them into the snow at his feet.

I will drinkLife to the lees.

Contentment is the capital which will never diminish.

O son of Adam, if you have collected anything in excess of your actual need, you will act only as its trustee for someone else to use it.

The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.