Stuff

"Our desires always increase with our possessions; the knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed, impairs our enjoyment of the good before us."

---Samuel Johnson


"To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth not."

---Akhenaton, Egyptian pharoah


"Manifest plainness. Embrace simplicity. Reduce selfishness. Have few desires."

---Lao Tzu

Normal

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it."

---Ellen Goodman