#abundance

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance. ↗

— Buddha

#abundance #count #live #midst #must

The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better. ↗

— Eric Johnston

#bigness #dinosaur #eloquent #good #lesson

Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#add #enough #fails #franklin #franklin roosevelt

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger. ↗

— Saint Basil

#abundance #away #brings #curses #drive

I feel that I have such an abundance in my life, and once you've seen how many people suffer and how little it takes for you to actually change their lives for the better, it's hard not to do something. ↗

— Wendie Malick

#actually #better #change #feel #hard

I try to be grateful for the abundance of the blessings that I have, for the journey that I'm on and to relish each day as a gift. ↗

— James McGreevey

#be grateful #blessings #day #each #gift

We found vines of a large size, and in some cases quite loaded with grapes; we also found an abundance of roses, which appeared to be like those of Castile. ↗

— Junipero Serra

#also #appeared #cases #found #grapes

Voll Blüten steht der Pfirsichbaum nicht jede wächst zur Frucht sie schimmern hell wie Rosenschaum durch Blau und Wolkenflucht. Wie Blüten geh'n Gedanken auf hundert an jedem Tag -- lass' blühen, lass' dem Ding den Lauf frag' nicht nach dem Ertrag! Es muss auch Spiel und Unschuld sein und Blütenüberfluss sonst wär' die Welt uns viel zu klein und Leben kein Genuss. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#beauty #blossoms #enjoyment #growth #ideas

No one needed to say it, but the room overflowed with that sort of blessing. The combination of loss and abundance. The abundance that has no guilt. The loss that has no fix. The simple tiredness that is not weary. The hope not built on blindness. ↗

— Aimee Bender

#beautiful #blessing #blindness #description #guilt

Where there is lack, God’s abundance is on the way. Hold on. Have faith. It’s coming. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#faith #unemployment #faith