fear of scarcity Quotes

Fear is all the fear of some loss: "I'm going to lose something." If we declare, and if we know in our hearts, "I already have everything that I need: I have life, I have creativity, I have joy, I have nourishment. I have everything I need," and if we just say, "It doesn't depend on my having a physical body to do it," then everything opens up.

No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.

We are afraid of losing what we have.

A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want from the door, or at arm's length, but he places it, by heaping wealth upon wealth, at a sublime distance!

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.

I always have this feeling that I'm losing everything, so I'm a real saver.

This inclination to hoard is deeply ingrained in me because in the past, in times of scarcity, you took what you could get.

What you fear most will determine whether you merely save for the future or give for the future.

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