SO GOOD QUOTES

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  • You can both desire something and know it’s not good for you, or mistake clarity for truth when ambiguity might be more accurate.

    The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism
    Kyle Chayka

  • “If you have God, then you have everything, even though you are deprived of everything.

    And if you do not have God, then you are deprived of everything, even though you possess everything.

    —Saint Antony the Great

  • However, Clement does not demand that the Christian should abstain from all refinements of culture nor does he wish him to take the vow of poverty. The decisive point is the attitude of the soul. As long as the Christian keeps his heart independent and free from attachment to the goods of this world, there is no reason why he should withdraw from his fellows. It is more important that the cultural life of the city should be imbued with the Christian spirit.

    Coptic Church Review
    V1 number 1
    Spring 1980

  • Why haven’t you bought one?

    I’ve become too practical. My philosophy on money is to make enough of it to not worry about it and to not buy things I don’t need. We don’t buy things to collect, we make them. Of course, I’m still tempted by old cars from time to time — I want to buy a Citroën SM and make it electric.

    Leaping into the future of cars with design visionary Rem D Koolhaas

  • I gravitate towards an extremely narrow band. That’s all that I want and I don’t want anything else.

    —Jeremy Strong

  • I say these things, and shall not cease saying them, causing continual pain and dressing the wounds. And this is done not for the sake of the fallen, but of those who are still standing. For they have departed, and their career is ended, but those who are yet standing have gained a more secure position through their calamities. What then, you say, shall we do? Do one thing only, hate riches, and love your life— cast away your goods; I do not say all of them, but cut off the superfluities. 

    Saint John Chrysostom, On the Vanity of Riches
    HOMILY Two
    After Eutropios, having been found outside the church, was taken captive

  • “Comfort is not one of my interests,” Johnson told Esquire magazine in 1999. “You can feel comfortable in any environment that’s beautiful.”

    The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism
    Kyle Chayka

  • “What we’re often really craving is not the thing that we desire, but the reprieve we feel once we have relieved ourselves from the yearning of desire.”

    —Kass Sarll

  • “And remember: If you want maximum artistic freedom, keep your overhead low. A free creative life is not about living within your means, it’s about living below your means.”

    —Austin Kleon, Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad

  • “People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used.”

    — Emmanuel Torres