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"Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being."
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"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."
"The less you need, the more you live."
"I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you."
"I'd much rather buy an experience than something I can possess in the material world."
"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."
"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."
"For sale: baby shoes, never worn."
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"Everyone is familiar with the phenomenon of feeling more or less alive on different days. Everyone knows on any given day that there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth, but which he might display if these were greater. Most of us feel as if a sort of cloud weighed upon us, keeping us below our highest notch of clearness in discernment, sureness in reasoning, or firmness in deciding. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits; he possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use."
"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome."
"To change one's life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions."
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