"We need much less than we think..." - Quote by Maya Angelou
We need much less than we think we need.
More by Maya Angelou
“I keep on dying, Because I love to live”
“Be present in all things and thankful for all things.”
“When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path to another who may be walking in darkness.”
More on Simplicity
“Either you understand or you don't, and that is that.”
“I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side.”
“For I am Saruman the Wise, Saruman Ring-maker, Saruman of Many Colours!' I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were not so, but were woven of all colours, and if he moved they shimmered and changed hue so that the eye was bewildered. I liked white better,' I said. White!' he sneered. 'It serves as a beginning. White cloth may be dyed. The white page can be overwritten; and the white light can be broken.' In which case it is no longer white,' said I. 'And he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.' - Gandalf”
More on Needs
“Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'”
“I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
“The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.”