Quotes About Abundance And Scarcity

#1. The counterapproach to living in scarcity is not about abundance. In fact, I think abundance and scarcity are two sides of the same coin. The opposite of "never enough" isn't abundance or "more than you could ever imagine." The opposite of scarcity is enough, or what I call Wholeheartedness.

Brene Brown

#2. Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity ... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of the ancient economy of the gift, and the time freely given to people dear to you actually creates magical abundance.

Victor Hugo

#3. Post-Scarcity Age, you don't pay for things. Abundance.

Jason Silva

#4. 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.

Chris Anderson

#5. How can I have both? This question will change your life. It will take you from a model of scarcity and limitation to a universe of possibilities and abundance. This

T. Harv Eker

#6. The opposite of "never enough" isn't abundance or "more than you could ever imagine." The opposite of scarcity is enough...

Brene Brown

#7. Paradoxically, the problems of politics often arise not in the form of a problem of scarcity, but as one of abundance.

Mark Kingwell

#8. Life management begins with mind management. The quality of your life is influenced by the quality of your thoughts. Your thoughts do form your world. Scarce thoughts create a life of scarcity. Thoughts of abundance lead to abundant circumstances.

Robin Sharma

#9. What is the opposite of abundance? It's not scarcity. It's greed. Greed is the belief that there is not enough for everyone, so you'd better grab yours now. What is the opposite of love? It's not hate. It's fear. Fear is the belief that someone or something can hurt you.

Robert G. Allen

#10. The scarcity of truth is atoned for by the abundance of affidavits; if a rumor be impugned, its veracity is easily strengthened by additional emphasis of affirmation, until at last "everybody says so," and then it is undeniable.

Samuel Laman Blanchard

#11. Utopia is a collective shift of perception away. Abundance is all around us. Only our efforts at tower-building blind us to it, our gaze forever skyward, forever seeking to escape this Earth, this feeling, this moment.

Charles Eisenstein

#12. It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.

Clay Shirky

#13. The drop from abundance to scarcity produced a decidedly more positive reaction to the cookies than did constant scarcity.

Robert B. Cialdini

#14. The God who impoverished himself is also the God of abundance, and somehow, perhaps at times nonsensically, Christians are called to live out of an ethic not of scarcity but of abundance - an abundance that extends both to the homeless neighbor and to the artist neighbor. . .

Lauren Winner

#15. In abundance prepare for scarcity.

Mencius

#16. The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community.

Charles Eisenstein

#17. But our tendency to give scarcity more attention than abundance has caused us to ignore the many examples of abundance that have arisen in our own lifetime, like corn, for starters. The problem is that once something becomes abundant, we tend to ignore it,

Chris Anderson

#18. Transformation takes place within us when we learn to be intentional and go from focusing on me to others, success to significance, limited to limitless, and scarcity to abundance.

Farshad Asl

#19. Producers think in the language of abundance rather than scarcity, take initiative instead of waiting for someone else to provide them with opportunity, and boldly venture wise risks instead of surrendering to fear that they can't make a difference.

Oliver DeMille

#20. Earlier scarcity dented the happy disposition of folk, as abundance breeds bitterness today.

Girdhar Joshi

#21. Permaculture gives us a toolkit for moving from a culture of fear and scarcity to one of love and abundance

Toby Hemenway

#22. Abundance is not the absence of scarcity; it is the presence of abundant mentality.

Debasish Mridha

#23. The power of the future lies not in the hands of those who believe in scarcity but of those who trust God's abundance.

Walter Brueggemann

#24. If you want to experience abundance, then don't choose a path that ensures scarcity or limitation. Choose a path that has a shot of leading to prosperity. Say no to non-prosperous choices like a job with a fixed paycheck.

Steve Pavlina

#25. Many creative people are finding that creativity doesn't grow in abundance, it grows from scarcity - the more Lego bricks you have doesn't mean you're going to be more creative; you can be very creative with very few Lego bricks.

Jorgen Vig Knudstorp

#26. Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#27. Continuous economic and demographic growth has a way of turning abundance into scarcity.

William DeBuys

#28. If you perceive the universe as being a universe of abundance, then it will be. If you think of the universe as one of scarcity, then it will be...I always thought that there was enough of everything to go around - that there are enough ideas in the universe and enough nourishment.

Milton Glaser

#29. For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough.

Brene Brown

#30. Life punishes those who have things in abundance by making them worry about petty things like: what to wear, or, which car to drive.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#31. An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#32. Those who have an abundance mindset are far more likely to be happy with their lives and to achieve their goals than are those who have a scarcity mindset.

Mike Cernovich

#33. Part of the reason people could eat so well was that many foods that we now think of as delicacies were plenteous then. Lobsters bred in such abundance around Britain's coastline that they were fed to prisoners and orphans or ground up for fertilizer.

Bill Bryson

#34. What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.

Adam Gopnik

#35. The people who don't give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance rather than scarcity.

Cheryl Strayed