Quotes about Sufficiency

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It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly s — Coco Chanel
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's no — Hugo Hamilton, The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood
The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absor — Brennan Manning, Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of — William Nicholson, Shadowlands
I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything. — P.D. James, The Children of Men
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and ThouBeside me singing in the Wilderne — Omar Khayyám
In my small way, I preserved and catalogued, and dipped into the vast ocean of learning that awaited, knowing all the ti — Iain Pears, An Instance of the Fingerpost
Feelings of apathy as they relate to our relationships often stem from insufficiently paying attention to those around u — Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
At this point in history, our society tends to elevate and reward the specialist...This concentrated focus has brought s — Keith Stewart, It's a Long Road to a Tomato: Tales of an Organic Farmer Who Quit the Big City for the (Not So) Simple Life
I guess there are never enough books. — John Steinbeck, A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia
Our can-do culture has made many of us believe that we should always be self-sufficient. Somewhere along the way, we als — Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. — Mae West, The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a diff — Greta Garbo, Greta and Cecil
[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time — Elizabeth I, Collected Works
You yearn to stay in this in-between place, where the beauty of the times you have freshly bade farewell to is still ali — Agnes Chew, The Desire for Elsewhere
Moments later, I was climbing nervously into the back of the car. The driver wore the archetypal expression of an antago — Agnes Chew, The Desire for Elsewhere
So, were every man on earth to become atheist, it could not affect God in any way. He is what He is in Himself without r — A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy
Rocky, if I’ve learned anything from my train wreck of a marriage, it’s that no one can take care of me better than I ca — Starr Ambrose, Thieves Like Us
I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know). — Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda