Taylor Caldwell Quotes

Poor is the man who desires a lot

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

That man has the fewest wants who is the least anxious for wealth.

We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything

He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.

Knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our Desires, and the fewer things a Man wishes for, the more easily his Necessities may be supply'd.

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

I am totally unattached to material items.

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

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

The older I get, the less I obsess about material stuff. In fact, stuff has become the enemy. There always seems to be more of it than I have storage in my house!

Sometimes it's better to look at things than own them... owning means anxiety and lots of bags to carry around.

He is rich enough who has no wants.

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.

He is the least in want who is the least covetous.

Half of the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need.

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

He is not poore that hath little, but he that desireth much.

The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.

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.

Man needs so little... yet he begins wanting so much.

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

She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to need.

Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they must have such a one as their neighbors have. ... Shall we always study to obtain more, and not sometimes be content with less?

A simple man will have only what he needs, and he will know the difference between what he needs and what he wants. We feel that whatever we want, we desperately need. But before we possess the world, to our wide surprise we see that the world has already possessed us.