Skip to content
quotesby

About this quote

What does it mean?
Those who recognize when they have enough will always have enough.
In plain terms
Understanding sufficiency ensures contentment.
What can you take from it?
Cultivate awareness of your limits.

Where it applies

  • financial planning
  • personal well‑being

Putting it to work

  • set clear boundaries
  • practice gratitude

Questions to consider

  • What does 'enough' mean for you?
  • How can you maintain this mindset?

Another view

External pressures can still create feelings of lack.

More from Lao Tzu

  1. Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.

    Permalink to quote #23
  2. He who obtains has little; he who scatters has much.

    Permalink to quote #25
  3. By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try, the world is beyond the winning.

    Permalink to quote #22

Related quotes

  1. When we are invited to a banquet, we take what is set before us; and were one to call upon his host to set fish upon the table or sweet things, he would be dee…

    EpictetusEpictetus quote #36
  2. Fortify thyself with contentment: that is an impregnable stronghold.

    EpictetusEpictetus quote #68
  3. 'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free, 'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be, And when we find ourselves in the place just right, 'Twi…

    Joseph BrackettJoseph Brackett quote #1