Julia Roberts Quotes

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

The American dream is a crock. Stop wanting everything. Everyone should wear jeans and have three T-shirts, eat rice and beans.

After I had money, I realized about all that all the things I thought I wanted that I don't need a lot of stuff. If there's anything I get excited by, it's a nice car.

I like to go to simple places to see people and not lose the real values of life. It's not just about money.

The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken cisterns of prosperity and comfort.

How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!

I am totally unattached to material items.

I often think about, 'How do we return to a simpler way of living? Is there some way that we can start to think of each other as human beings again, instead of worshiping money, instead of worshiping electronics, instead of worshiping getting ahead just for me?'

To grow up under really simple circumstances, and to understand that certain things were ornamental... that made an impression on me as a child and is something I use.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

I'm not an overly material person. Sure, I like certain comforts in life. But buying a lot of 'things' doesn't produce happiness for me.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

God didn't make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God... If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

You don't find happiness by being able to buy everything you want, whenever you want it.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.

Spoiled. That's all it's about - can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you weren't born with, and you can make it through on even half of that.

I love the idea of living a life that is completely humble and quiet.

The older I get, the less I need. I wear the same jean shorts for the whole week. I'm not running to the store to get the latest bag.

A small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

I spend time with a special someone in my life. That's all I need; I don't need events. I don't do a lot.

Some of the happiest people I know have none of the things the world insists are necessary for satisfaction and joy.

What is poor? We had food. We dressed well. We didn't have a lot, but what we had fit, and it was always neat.

Material things are delightful, but they're not important.

I don't have a desire for material things. As long as I'm happy, I'm good, man.