When the landlord, annuitant, or monied man, has a greater revenue than what he judges sufficient to maintain his own family, he employs either the whole or a part of the surplus in maintaining one or more menial servants. Increase this surplus, and he will naturally increase the number of those servants.

— Adam Smith

Adam Smith Quotes

The Good Gardener planted each of us here for a reason.

— Seth Adam Smith

A garden is beautiful only when it is filled with people; they determine its beauty.

— Seth Adam Smith

This is the miracle of all miracles – when life sacrifices itself to become something greater. When it awakens to its potential and rises in power. That is true magic.

— Seth Adam Smith

Our joy in life is inexorably determined by the degree to which we love.

— Seth Adam Smith

Our home is a belonging place.

— Seth Adam Smith

Every man, woman, and child on this earth is a wandering pilgrim in his or her own way – each searching for a belonging place. That sense of belonging is found only as we care for one another.

— Seth Adam Smith

You don’t lose yourself being selfless – you find yourself.

— Seth Adam Smith

I have learned that I always feel happier and healthier when I offer genuine love to other people.

— Seth Adam Smith

Fear is destructive and defeating, but faith is constructive and creative.

— Seth Adam Smith

Life is not trying to entertain us, it’s trying to teach us.

— Seth Adam Smith

Fear finds an excuse while faith finds a way.

— Seth Adam Smith

We may not be able to control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react.

— Seth Adam Smith

But in the midst of our greatest pains we can find comfort and encouragement in the fact that others with similar struggles have successfully gone before us.

— Seth Adam Smith

If you’re feeling discouraged and defeated – don’t quit. Play on, hope on, and move forward. The music you play – even in the midst of incredible darkness – can and will turn the tide of your own battles.

— Seth Adam Smith

Likewise, I know that if you continue to move forward – however slow your pace might seem – you will conquer your darkest canyons and your tallest mountains.

— Seth Adam Smith

Oh, my child, can you not see? You must let go of yourself. For if a seed wishes to live, it must sacrifice itself and grow outward, not inward.

— Seth Adam Smith

We always have a choice. Only you can decide what you become.

— Seth Adam Smith

Only you can decide what you become.

— Seth Adam Smith

That woman’s been riding the same broomstick for almost a hundred years.

— Seth Adam Smith

But though, in establishing perpetual rents, or even in letting very long leases, it may be of use to distinguish between real and nominal price; it is of none in buying and selling, the more common and ordinary transactions of human life.

— Adam Smith
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