#sufficiency

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#happiness #life #reading #self-sufficiency #life

I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything. ↗

— P.D. James

#love #protection #responsibility #self-sufficiency #solitude

I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know). ↗

— Anthony Hope

#money #sufficiency #money

You cannot want more for people than they want for themselves. ↗

— Johnnie Dent Jr.

#independence #self-sufficiency #goal-setting

The essential cultural discrimination is not between having and not having or haves and have-nots, but between the superfluous and the indispensable. Wisdom, it seems to me, is always poised upon the knowledge of minimums; it might be thought to be the art of minimums. Granting the frailty, and no doubt the impermanence, of modern technology as a human contrivance, the man who can keep a fire in a stove or on a hearth is not only more durable, but wiser, closer to the meaning of fire, than the man who can only work a thermostat. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#simplicity #art

If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#god #man #men #nor #sufficiency