Minimal Desires Quotes

I'm not one of those people that needs to have all of the new gadgets or wants any of that.

Happiness does not come from consumption of things.

I don't have much of a bucket list. I don't have a lot of needs and desires.

You are rich if you have enough money to satisfy all your desires. So there are two ways to be rich: you earn, inherit, borrow, beg, or steal enough money to meet all your desires; or you cultivate a simple lifestyle of few desires; that way you always have enough money.

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.