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"There's been a lot written on the topic of minimalism. But I still believe in it."
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"You don't need extra food, extra water, extra clothing for extra warmth " anything extra. You don't need soap or deodorant. Everything you carry you should need daily."

"Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being."

"Progress is discovering what you can do without."

"I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run."

"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."

"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."

"Generally, people need less than a quarter of what they want."

"Nurture a desire to be free from the clock."

"The less you need, the more you live."
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"Life is a web of intersections and choices. Your 1st choice is to recognize an intersection. Your 2nd choice is to be grateful for it."

"I like to go to Starbucks and watch the intellectuals. I observe them and their intellectualness. They in turn observe me drinking coffee and being a creeper."

"Be a pro at what you do. No one shows-up to meetings of the Unsuccessful Skydivers Club."

"Social media is not just a spoke on the wheel of marketing. It's becoming the way entire bicycles are built."

"I'm creating a self help show called Self Talk. I'll insult myself for an hour then open phone lines to a fitness coach & my mother-in-law."

"The focus of gap analysis should be getting to the other side. If you bend-over to analyze a gap too long, you'll probably fall into it."
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