Margaret Fuller Quotes

I'm not a material guy, so I don't need to surround myself with wealth.

We might make money and be in the careers we're in, but we don't need a bunch of stuff. We like showcasing that and letting people know that it's OK to not want things and keep wanting bigger and better.

Someone who goes with a half a loaf of bread to a small place that fits like a nest around him, someone who wants no more, who is not himself longed for by anyone else. He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.

If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.

One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide — the superfluous, luxury in eating, luxury in dressing, trifles. Needs increase because one thing calls for another. The result is uncontrollable dissatisfaction. Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up.

Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.

Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this.

Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.

...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.

The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then there can be no desire, for there is nothing left to want. I think that what the Buddha may have been trying to tell us is that we have it all, each of us, all the time; therefore, desire is simply unnecessary.

If you're not looking forward to church this morning perhaps it's time to look for a church.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

There is nothing I can't live without. I learned this attitude when I was a child.

Enjoy everything. Need nothing.

Without the gospel, a gathering of people, though they claim otherwise, cannot be an authentic church.

What I feel best about is that while I enjoy what I have and don't want to lose it, I also don't need it.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.

Just as we need the courage to be happy, we also need the courage to live simply.

The fear of not having enough prevents many from seeing that they already are enough.

World will suffice for me in the future.

Abundance is not a number or acquisition. It is the simple recognition of enoughness.

Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being.