Notes
Five things on owning fewer things:
“To enjoy life’s immensity, you do not need many things” – Taigu Ryokan
“Luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.” — Daphne du Maurier
“I don’t like to own things. I feel freer when I don’t own things.” — Rei Kawakubo
“Anyone with any degree of mental toughness ought to be able to exist without the things they like most for a few months at least.” — Georgia O’Keefe
“Life is not problematical. We make it problematical, because we are all listening to someone else, to some thing, without listening to ourselves. We buy a lot of junk, for instance, that we know damn well we don’t need. We clutter up our lives with insignificant things that have no value at all, but when we start to think about how simple life is, and how simple it should be lived, then we begin to realise, I have no problem – I don’t have a real problem. A problem is something you make; life is something you live.” — Eartha Kitt
