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“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.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: dependence, materialism, simplicity

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“Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: ego, materialism, vanity

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“How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

tags: material-possessions, materialism, perception, quality, value

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“But I do know we’re deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don’t satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

tags: deficient, life, loving-relationship, materialism, satisfaction, truth, universe

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“[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection.”
― Héloïse, The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse