Showing posts with label abundance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label abundance. Show all posts

Tuesday, 18 March 2025

Quotes: Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The good news is that the moment you decide what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without." 

–– Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American philosopher and writer 

via: Commonplace Book 2006-2009, 2007, p. 100.

Wednesday, 29 November 2023

Quotes: Tom Waits

"We are buried underneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness." 

–– Tom Waits (b. 1949), American musician, composer, singer-songwriter, actor 

Source: Tom Waits. True Confessions. 2008.

Saturday, 19 August 2023

Quotes: Origen of Alexandria

"The wise guard themselves from being drained by abundance." 

–– Origen of Alexandria (c. 184-253 A.D.), Egyptian theologian, ascetic, and early Christian scholar

 via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2018 e, 2018, p. 15.