Meg Wolfe > Quotes

“This is today! What will tomorrow bring? Life arrives and departs on its own schedule, not ours; it's time to travel light, and be ready to go wherever it takes us.”
― Meg Wolfe, The Minimalist Woman's Guide to Having It All

“Write that novel, sail that boat. And if you can't, immerse yourself in the fantasy, be the ultimate dabbler, just enjoy what it is you enjoy. It'll help you get well if you're going to get well, and it'll help you sail that great boat in the sky if that's what's going to happen. Onwards and Upwards. No regrets.”
― Meg Wolfe, The Minimalist Woman's Guide to Having It All

“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty ~Socrates”
― Meg Wolfe, The Minimalist Woman's Guide to Having It All

“it is those characters, the ones who demand perfection of themselves and others, who are also the least humane and the most likely to commit atrocities, both in the small worlds of their families, and in the larger worlds of politics and power. They create rigid, unforgiving environments”
― Meg Wolfe, An Uncharted Corpse

“But then come the pro-sweatshop opinions. Even some liberal economists come out pro-sweatshops, saying that being against them is a luxury only developed nations can afford, that factories providing any kind of work even with long hours and lousy pay are better than the alternatives available to the women and young people in impoverished countries. Prostitution is one such alternative.”
― Meg Wolfe, The Minimalist Woman

“It’s good to have the right stuff, but not too much, so that you can move quickly when conditions change. Being independent is important. It’s also important to know that you don’t need to keep stuff in order to keep memories.” Helene’s”
― Meg Wolfe, An Uncollected Death

“Learn to be truly happy with your material things at exactly the level that they are right now.”
― Meg Wolfe, The Minimalist Woman's Guide to Having It All