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"Progress is discovering what you can do without."
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"It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much."
"I'd begun at the soundless place where California touches Mexico with five Gatorade bottles full of water and eleven pounds of gear and lots of candy. My backpack was tiny, no bigger than a schoolgirl's knapsack. Everything I carried was everything I had."
"Fewer the necessities, better your life will be."
"The less you need, the more you live."
"Light heat all known all white heart breath no sound."
"Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire."
"Diogenes carried a bowl with him for years, but one day saw a man drinking from his cupped palm and declared, 'I have been a fool, burdened all these years by the weight of a bowl when a perfectly good vessel lay at the end of my wrist."
"For myself I can say that, having had every good thing that money can buy, an experience like another, I could part without a pang with every possession I have. We live in uncertain times and our all may yet be taken from us. With enough plain food to satisfy my small appetite, a room to myself, books from a public library, pens and paper, I should regret nothing."
"Generally, people need less than a quarter of what they want."
"I'd much rather buy an experience than something I can possess in the material world."
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"The examined life: nothing is more futile or counterproductive. The active, joyous, spontaneous life: that is what one should aim for."
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