Henry David Thoreau Quotes

I'm not very materialistic - I don't have a whole lot of stuff. But I do always like a pair of really weird socks.

I am totally unattached to material items.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.

I couldn't care less about clothes or cars.

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

There's no point in having a bunch of stuff that you're not going to wear. Why not just have a few things that you actually like?

I make and wear black and white for myself because it centers me.

Clothes have helped me a lot, they helped fix my identity crisis.

I love my home. It's the only thing I really spend money on. I don't really spend a lot of money on anything else. No fancy cars. No designer clothes.

Sometimes our thoughts and feelings are our most prized possessions... and then there are times to let go of your possessions and wander.

Pick clothes that you really love. And wear them. And don't make anything "special." If it's being held for something "special," wear it to the market. Wear it every day!

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

As I unclutter my life, I free myself to answer the callings of my soul.

To know the way, we go the way, we do the way. The way we do, the things we do, it's all there in front of you. But if you try too hard to see it, you'll only become confused. I am me and you are you. As you can see; but when you do the things that you can do, you will find the way. The way will follow you.

Buddha says: Life should be simple, not complex. Life should be based on needs, not on desires. Needs are perfectly okay: you need food, you need clothes, you need a shelter, you need love, you need relationship. Perfectly good, nothing wrong in it. Needs can be fulfilled; desires are basically unfulfillable. Desires create complexity. They create complexity because they can never be fulfilled. You go on and on working hard for them, and they remain unfulfilled, and you remain empty.

I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. I'm not sure where that is but I know what it is like. It's like Tiffany's.

Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.

I'm not a things person. I'm not attached to my things.

I've always dressed myself, even when I was younger. My parents didn't pick out my clothes or anything. They let me do that, which I think is an important thing because it allows for kids to experiment and figure out what they like, even at a young age.

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

Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need

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