Matthew McConaughey Quotes

When I was busking, when I was paying for petrol with silver coins or when I was sneaking into hostels so I could park my van up and sleep in it, I had the best time of my life.

I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.

I live out of my suitcase and I'm happy to do so.

When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.

I don't really own anything. It makes me more fluent, er, fluid. More fluent, too, because I've learned a lot of languages by traveling around.

I can understand why people would want to stay on the road because you create your own bubble. You almost don't live in the real world. Just to have the things that are with you is fine.

It is desirable that a man be clad so simply that he can lay his hands on himself in the dark, and that he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly, that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk out the gate empty-handed without anxiety.

Everything that I own and use are in a carry-on suitcase.

I'm not a fancy person. I love small spaces. I like tiny cars. I don't buy things, aside from music and books. I don't get loads of attention and maybe it's because I'm kind of boring. I don't think I'm boring, but I have different interests. I don't go out much, not because I'm hiding but because I'm not a big drinker. I go out and have a good time, I go to concerts and stuff.

I'm okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I'll get a shower or stumble out at dawn and realize I'm in a field in Poland. I like that kind of life.

I don't need a lot of space.

Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: " Is this the condition that I feared?"

It's important to know when to take your time and not overspend and overdo things, of course. That's why you get things that can be dressed in a thousand different ways.

I live like a monk: with one toothbrush, one cake of soap, and a pot of cream.

I spent more time in a van then in my mom's womb.

I live in a VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER.

Treat different people differently. Anything else is a compromise.

There is great freedom in simplicity of living.

I had no place to put anything. I would give my sculpture away because I had no place to put it.

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Live below your means but within your needs.

If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.

One day, observing a child drinking out of his hands, he cast away the cup from his wallet with the words, "A child has beaten me in plainness of living."

The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.