Patricia Schroeder Quotes

Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.

There is nothing I can't live without. I learned this attitude when I was a child.

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

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

Someone who goes with a half a loaf of bread to a small place that fits like a nest around him, someone who wants no more, who is not himself longed for by anyone else. He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.

True affluence is to not need anything.

Needing nothing really is the ultimate goal. And to have nothing to do with things.

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

The less you need, the more you attract.

I’ve stripped my life down,” he told me. “I don’t need much. I have all the company I want to keep right in here.” He shot himself in the head with his fingers. “People don’t understand about the need to live simply. They make appointments all day. They even schedule their own deaths. The first time they’ll have freedom to really be themselves is when they no longer exist. But up here, there’s nothing but me and the sky. A million billion stars.

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

What I feel best about is that while I enjoy what I have and don't want to lose it, I also don't need it.

True affluence is not needing anything.

When you find peace within, you also find that you can do without. This means simply that you no longer need the things of your outside world, and not needing is a great freedom.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

I am totally unattached to material items.

O ye gods, grant unto me to have little and to want nothing.

The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought.

Home has always been wherever I am. I'm not very attached to walls - or people, for that matter - so I've always loved travelling around. A book in my back pocket, a diary, and a pen is all I need to call any place home.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

With renunciation life begins.

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

Material things don't matter.