SO GOOD QUOTES

  • “The more you evolve into the best version of yourself, the more you’ll be required to give up.”

    —Anthony Moore, Living an Extraordinary Life Means Giving Up a Normal One

  • He uses two basic cameras—one digital, one film—without a zoom. “That simplifies things already,” he said.

    Michel Houellebecq, the Photographer

  • “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

  • Be simple, and firm in your simplicity. “The fashion of this world passeth away.” (1 Cor. vii. 31.) We shall vanish with it, if we make ourselves like it by reason of vanity; but the truth of God remains forever, and we shall dwell with it if it alone occupies our attention.

    —François Fénelon, Spiritual Progress

  • Wretched I was; and wretched is every soul bound by the friendship of perishable things; he is torn asunder when he loses them, and then he feels the wretchedness which he had ere yet he lost them.

    —St. Augustine, Confessions

  • “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

  • “The best way to give yourself a pay raise is to spend less money.”

    The Minimalists
    Podcast 188 | Budgeting Mistakes

  • “The thing that is least perceived about wealth is that all pleasure in money ends at the point where economy becomes unnecessary. The man who can buy anything he covets values nothing that he buys. There is a subtle pleasure in the extravagance that contests with prudence; in the anxious debates which we hold with ourselves whether we can or cannot afford a certain thing; in our attempts to justify our wisdom; in the risk and recklessness of our operations; in the long deferred and final joy of our possession; but this is a kind of pleasure which the man of boundless means never knows.”

    —William Dawson, The Quest of the Simple Life

  • “So the messages we hear, exhorting us to build up our self-esteem, are correct, but they go astray when they tell us to do so through an unbridled self-pampering, especially through unchecked consumerism.”

    How to Be a Sinner
    Peter Bouteneff

  • If you have experienced peer rejection, conflict or belong to an unsupportive family, you might rely on objects more than yourself or other people. You might view objects as more remarkable than your own personal qualities, and they may seem more readily available than supportive friends or relatives.

    How to have less stuff