We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the moneymaking street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition. We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments, the unbribed soul. —William James More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before. —Mary Mapes Dodge More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Here is a man whose desires are few. In some things he will not be able to maintain his resolution, but they will be few. Here is a man whose desires are many. In some things he will be able to maintain his resolution, but they will be few. —Mencius More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness. —Marie Corelli More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million, but I was just as happy when I had $48 million. —Arnold Schwarzenegger More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardize your chances of promotion and self-advancement. This is how it starts, and, before you know where you are, you're a fully paid-up member of the rat pack. The price is too high. —Jimmy Reid More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
John Muir once declared that he was better off than the magnate E.H. Harriman. "I have all the money I want," Muir explained, "and he hasn't. —Clifton Fadiman More about this quote Tags: money want craving Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things. —Elise Boulding More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear. —Julia Child More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We don't need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it. —Donald Horban More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can live without anything you weren't born with, and you can make it through on even half of that. —Gloria Naylor More about this quote Tags: survival necessity birth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but "safe" isn't one of them. —Mandy Hale in The Single Woman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation? —Becca Fitzpatrick in Crescendo More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you'd left off, whether it be a week since you'd seen each other or two years. —Jojo Moyes in One Plus One More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. —Maya Angelou More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email