Brit Marling Quotes

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

I'm not a big consumer at all. I'm very happy with enough.

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

America's lifestyle expectations are far too high and need to be adjusted so we have less things and a smaller, better existence.

You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

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.

I drive one car. I own one house. That's enough for me.

We don't need an abundance of things.

I wanted to see if I could be happy without a lot of stuff. And what I found out was, yeah, I really could.

We might make money and be in the careers we're in, but we don't need a bunch of stuff. We like showcasing that and letting people know that it's OK to not want things and keep wanting bigger and better.

I'm happy without money.

I don't have kids, a mortgage, or a car. That has let me hold out for the jobs I want to do, and to sit in a cold room in the winter with fingerless gloves, writing.

Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things.

I've learned that you don't need a lot in life. If it can't fit into a suitcase, you don't really need it.

You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.

They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.

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

I prefer to stay poor.

The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.

Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.

I don't need that much to live - we don't need that much to have a wonderful life. I learned that from animals.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.