Padma Lakshmi Quotes

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

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

The more you own, the more you know you don't own.

A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.

I am totally unattached to material items.

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

I'm not an overly material person. Sure, I like certain comforts in life. But buying a lot of 'things' doesn't produce happiness for me.

He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning.

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

Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.

I'm no Buddhist monk, and I can't say I'm in love with renunciation in itself, or traveling an hour or more to print out an article I've written, or missing out on the N.B.A. Finals. But at some point, I decided that, for me at least, happiness arose out of all I didn't want or need, not all I did.

I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.

India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.

I would much rather be asked, why I do not have one, than why I do have one.

I don't like possessions.

I don't have a desire for material things. As long as I'm happy, I'm good, man.

Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.

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

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

When I look around, I begin to understand what Socrates meant when he said, 'How much there is in the world I do not want.'

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

All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life.

Material things don't matter.

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!

I don't even have a small boat. I don't even have a toy boat in my bathtub. I don't have a biplane, I don't have anything. Those things are toys, and I don't need them to be happy.