Most of modern life, all our diseases, are diseases of abundance, not diseases of scarcity.

If somebody never gets enough of you, they will always want more

If you think happiness is a rare bird you won’t see much of it.

After doing this work or the past twelve years and watching scarcity ride roughshod over our families, organizations, and communities, I’d say the one thing we have in common is that we’re sick of feeling...

The basis of bureaucratic rule is the poverty of society in objects of consumption, with the resulting struggle of each against all. When there is enough goods in a store, the purchasers can come whenever...

Worrying about scarcity is our culture’s version of post-traumatic stress. It happens when we’ve been through too much, and rather than coming together to heal (which requires vulnerability) we’re angry and scared and at each...

When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference.

Hunter-gathers, by nature, store information for use, understanding that there may be a time when information is scarce.

Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there is of any resource the less you can charge for it. The more...

Good. Drink your tea,” he ordered. “It will make you feel better.”Nothing will make me feel better, she thought, but she drank it down. It was hot and sweet. Mr. Humphreys must have put his...

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

If you want me, you’d better hurry. Act now, supplies are limited.

…there’s not enough of anything to go around except people and death.

The Scarcity of Flowers in the society made guys settle for weeds and grasses…. Trust me i’ll rather import a Rose than being contended with thorns.

Do extremely difficult work.That seems obvious, right? If you do something that’s valued but scarce because it’s difficult, you’re more likely to be in demand and to be compensated fairly for what you do.The implication...

Jesus had no regard for the lifeboat politics you and I live within every day.

Science blasphemed when tries to eliminate scarcity in economy.

When money for food is scarce, I’ve got to start tightening my belt. And if I keep getting skinnier from not eating, I’ll have to tighten my belt even further.

a distinctive amount of a reasonable scarcity improves value greatly

Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.