Laura Wasser Quotes

Everything I own can fit in two suitcases and a foot locker.

I don't throw lavish parties or nothing like that - I just want a bed and a TV.

I have a few toys. But I live very simply.

What do you actually need? Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment.

I can't even drive a car. I don't have a driver's license. I have a rented apartment in New York. That's it. When I travel, I have almost all of my possessions with me. That's how little I own.

I eat to survive, you know?

As long as I can pay rent, that's all I care about.

I never tried to make money - just enough to be able to eat.

You don't really need much. I try to live my life with that sort of minimalist mentality.

I ain't got a credit card, a mobile phone or a computer. Call me sentimental. I think that's a whole world of trouble I ain't got no business setting foot in. And you know what? It feels good.

I travel very light. I never want to check a bag. My only standards are a few sets of clothes, my white sneakers, my blue backpack, and my laptop. I don't have any special things otherwise.

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 rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.

I don't want to get rich - just live good.

I don't even own a cell phone.

Bread for today is bread enough.

Reducing your life down to three pairs of jeans, two skirts, a couple of shirts, and a few pairs of shoes was so nice for me. I really loved living in this tiny room where I didnt have space for anything. It sounds really lame, but it made me feel a lot more free, because I just didnt have as many choices.

I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?

The cheapest way to travel, and the way to travel the farthest in the shortest distance, is to go afoot, carrying a dipper, a spoon, and a fish line, some Indian meal, some salt, and some sugar.... Any one of these things I mean, not all together. I have traveled thus some hundreds of miles without taking any meal in a house, sleeping on the ground when convenient, and found it cheaper, and in many respects more profitable, than staying at home. So that some have inquired why it would not be best to travel always. But I never thought of traveling simply as a means of getting a livelihood.

If you calculate every single thing you could possibly need in your life, you would need no more than 200 people to keep all that afloat: a doctor, food, wine, cheese-eating friends, the person who makes paper, the shoemaker.

The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.

I don''t wanna be rich, just live good.

Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires.

I'm not the poorest president. The poorest is the one who needs a lot to live.