{"quotes":[{"text":"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 afraid. We want to dare greatly. We're tired of the national conversation centering on 'What should we fear' and 'Who should we blame?' We all want to be brave.","author":"Brené Brown","tags":["blame","bravery","courage","fear","scarcity"],"id":5316,"author_id":"Bren%C3%A9+Brown"},{"text":"Sympathetic joy is a practice. It takes time and effort to free ourselves of the scarcity story that most of us have learned along the way, the idea that happiness is a competition, and that someone else is grabbing all the joy.","author":"Sharon Salzberg","tags":["competition","effort","love","love","mindfulness-practice","scarcity","sympathetic-joy"],"id":19800,"author_id":"Sharon+Salzberg"},{"text":"If you think happiness is a rare bird you won't see much of it.","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["happiness","scarcity"],"id":26205,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"},{"text":"Until now, human organization could only be based upon something negative which could not be conquered: SCARCITY, and something false: PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY... No wonder instead of producing stability, it produced the exact opposite.The current human organization based upon dealing with the consequences of scarcity and being considered responsible for our individual characteristics which we could never have chosen (our nature, our nurture, our “soul”, and all the choices they engender), will always lead to an irrational, hence unstable human organization causing perpetual conflicts, which is no organization at all.Today, we have the luxury to initiate a rational self-organization based upon two positives: -our HUMAN CONSENSUS; our common desires shared by all, and -the SCIENTIFIC PROJECT to achieve them.","author":"Haroutioun Bochnakian","tags":["accountability","consensus","determinism","false","free-will","human-organization","humanism","irrational","organization","personal-accountability","rational","scarcity","science","unreasonable"],"id":39152,"author_id":"Haroutioun+Bochnakian"},{"text":"From our immersion in scarcity arise the habits of scarcity. From the scarcity of time arises the habit of hurrying. From the scarcity of money comes the habit of greed. From the scarcity of attention comes the habit of showing off. From the scarcity of meaningful labor comes the habit of laziness. From the scarcity of unconditional acceptance comes the habit of manipulation.","author":"Charles Eisenstein","tags":["abundance","attention","greed","habits","labor","laziness","manipulation","meaningful-labor","money","scarcity","time","unconditional-acceptance","unconditional-love"],"id":81936,"author_id":"Charles+Eisenstein"},{"text":"Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.","author":"John Burnham Schwartz","tags":["love","men","scarcity","schwartz","the-commoner"],"id":92233,"author_id":"John+Burnham+Schwartz"},{"text":"Science blasphemed when tries to eliminate scarcity in economy.","author":"Toba Beta","tags":["blasphemy","economy","managed","scarcity","science","truth"],"id":101159,"author_id":"Toba+Beta"},{"text":"Survival in scarcity dictates nastiness with a rival clan, but also dictates goodness towards our own clan whose support is vital to acquire or defend the necessary scarcities.Man’s nastiness or goodness is not his fault or merit;They both create the vital coping mechanism to his environment of scarcity.","author":"Haroutioun Bochnakian","tags":["good-and-bad","rival","scarcity","survival"],"id":104151,"author_id":"Haroutioun+Bochnakian"},{"text":"No complaint... Is more common than that of a scarcity of money.","author":"Adam Smith","tags":["scarcity","common","than "],"id":104410,"author_id":"Adam+Smith"},{"text":"When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["absence","amiability","amicable","attraction","difference","disappearance","ego","essence","good-influence","greatness","honor","importance","influence","michael-bassey-johnson","presence","respect","scarcity","separation","value","vip"],"id":113698,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":38,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}