Steve Toltz Quotes

What I feel best about is that while I enjoy what I have and don't want to lose it, I also don't need it.

One of my 'Secrets of Adulthood' is: Somewhere, keep an empty shelf. I know where my empty shelf is, and I treasure it.

Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.

Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.

Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.

I live free of fear and full of hope.

since the thing perhaps is to eat flowers and not to be afraid

Needing nothing really is the ultimate goal. And to have nothing to do with things.

Elegance means appreciating things as they are. There is a sense of delight and of fearlessness. You are not fearful of dark corners.

I don't want anyone to be afraid. I don't anyone to hold back who they are.

Tolerance and compassion are qualities of fearless people.

I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.

Even fear itself is frightened by the bodhisattva's fearlessness.

Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.

Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.

We have very little, so we have nothing to be preoccupied with. The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have, the more free you are.

My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.

In this world, the greatest courage is to drop the mind aside. The bravest man is who can see the world without the barrier of the mind, just as it is. It is tremendously different, utterly beautiful. There is nobody who is inferior and there is nobody who is superior - there are no distinctions.

Who is not afraid of pure space - that breathtaking empty space of an open door?

Happy is the man who is nothing.

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

Travel is never a matter of money but of courage

There is nothing I can't live without. I learned this attitude when I was a child.