Simple Needs Quotes

Realize How Little you Need in Order to be Satisfied and at Peace.

Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.

All a woman needs is a good bath, clean clothes, and for her hair to be combed. These things she can do herself. I very seldom go to the hairdresser, but when I do, I just marvel.

I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.

What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise.

I think I'm low-maintenance.

He chose to be rich by making his wants few, and supplying them himself.

I'm not ambitious; it is clear in my choice of work. I am fine doing a few dance shows in a month to run my household and take care of myself.

But with writing, all you need is a pad of paper.

As long as I can make a phone call and do a WhatsApp, I'm fine.

I was the person who had a 10 lb baby on my arm called my purse, and now that I have a crossover bag it's stupid. I realize I need my wallet, my phone and my lip gloss - that's it.

Take all away. I am content to know Such love is mine-for life is all too brief To grieve for pleasures bringing only grief; Give me but You; it is enough just so.

This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture.

My high-school dream was to be in a band, pay my rent and eat - and I've been able to do that for 20 years. So I'm completely content.

Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.

Just be nice to me while I am doing the scene; that is all. I don't want big cars, I don't want big hotel rooms.

Pepperidge Farm bread. That's fancy bread. You can tell it's fancy because it's wrapped twice. You open it, and it still isn't open. That's why I don't buy it. I don't need another step between me and toast.

I have a lot of trouble understanding how people see me as a celebrity. I work 14 hours a day, and then I just want to talk to my family, see the people I love, pet my dog, and go to bed. I'm not looking to be best friends with or emulate a celebrity.

As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal.

Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.

I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things.

As long as I was well fed, I was a very, very nice child. I just used my imagination and played with Barbies. I was pretty easy.

My greatest skill has been to want but little.

The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.