Freedom from Possessions Quotes

Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.

Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.

We have very little, so we have nothing to be preoccupied with. The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have, the more free you are.

The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.

The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy.

Don't be afraid to have nothing.

I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.

We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.

I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism.