Demi Moore Quotes

The world will try to tell you that you need stuff to be somebody. Don't listen

We have allowed ourselves to be defined by our consumption instead of by our ability to move beyond it.

Materialism is an identity crisis.

I'm not materialistic. I love clothes and all that stuff, but I don't need it to live.

I'm not a very materialistic person.

Man does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity.

You spend a good part of your adult life acquiring things: building a home, filling it with objects that please your eye and make you feel comfortable. Then you spend the last part of your life trying to figure out how to get rid of it all.

I can live well with what I have.I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle, and always want more and more.

There is a close relationship between a house full of possessions and a heart full of desires, between a cluttered closet and a crowded schedule, between having no place to put possessions and having no priorities for our life. These are precious clues. They remind us to slow down, to live in the present, to reduce the desires that drain our vitality, to clarify priorities so we can give our time and attention to what matters most. Tragically, in the press of modern life, we have managed to get backwards one of life's most vital truths: people are to be loved; things are to be used.

People need things. I don't live a monk's existence, I'm a consumer, but I try to do it to the level that doesn't feel like there's an overabundance of something.

The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have, therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am. The ego lives through comparison. How you are seen by others turns into how you see yourself.

Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.

I don't think people today need to derive security from possessions.

Yeah, I guess I'm economical. Not because I try, but because I'm really not that interested in shoes.

I try to find my way in the world you know, I try to be somebody instead of just, make money off of everybody.

Try not to have idols: they are interchangeable and lead to a wantonness that is easily mistaken for love.

I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.

We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire - based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need. What do you actually need? Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment. It's just the idea that we're so wasteful. I think a lot of self - identity and inner - personal development is hampered by consumerism and capitalism because we see ourselves as a reflection of the TV, rather than as a reflection of the people who are around us, truly.

The things you used to own, now they own you.

Avoid the philosophy and excuse that yesterday's luxuries have become today's necessities. They aren't necessities unless we ourselves make them such. . . . It is essential for us to live within our means.

Life's too short for minimalism.

Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.

A certain degree of physical harmony and comfort is necessary, but above a certain level it becomes a hindrance instead of a help. Therefore the ideal of creating an unlimited number of wants and satisfying them seems to be a delusion and a snare.

The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.