Paulette Goddard Quotes

I am totally unattached to material items.

The more you own, the more you know you don't own.

I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.

I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.

I don't like to attach myself to material things.

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

Very early on in life, I decided the hell with it: material things weren't for me. Christmas would come, and other kids would have all these presents, and it wouldn't bother me a bit.

To the degree we can live without the things of this world, we are wealthy.

When the farmer has got his house, he may not be the richer but the poorer for it, and it be the house that has got him... a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.

The importance of detachment from things, the importance of poverty, is that we are supposed to be free from things that we might prefer to people. Wherever things have become more important than people, we are in trouble. That is the crux of the whole matter.

But that's how it is when you start wanting to have things. Now, I just look at them, and when I go away I carry them in my head. Then my hands are always free, because I don't have to carry a suitcase.

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

I'm not a minimalist, as I'm sure you've noticed.

The more wants a man has, the less freedom.

We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.

The more you are possession oriented, the less happy you will be. The less happy you are, the farther away from the Divine, from prayer, from gratitude you will be. Be austere. Live with the necessary and forget about desires; they are fantasies in the mind, ripples in the lake. They only disturb you, they can never lead you to any contentment.

No one owns anything. Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them. And if nothing belongs to me, then there's no point wasting my time looking after things that aren't mine.

I don't need a Rolls-Royce, I don't need a house in the country, I don't need to live in the south of France. I'm quite happy as I am.

I wasn’t trying to invent better and better homes, but to show her that homes didn’t matter, we could live in any home, in any city, in any country, in any century, and be happy, as if the world were just what we lived in.

Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!

Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.

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

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

When Alexander the Great addressed him with greetings, and asked if he wanted anything, Diogenes replied "Yes, stand a little out of my sunshine."