Vicki Robin Quotes

If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.

We no longer live life. We consume it.

Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers.

Waste lies not in the number of possessions but in the failure to enjoy them.

He who knows he has enough is rich.

Money is something we choose to trade our life energy for.

Once we’re above the survival level, the difference between prosperity and poverty lies simply in our degree of gratitude.

put your life in service to your values rather than putting your time in service to money.

Money is something you trade your life energy for. You sell your time for money. It doesn’t matter that Ned over there sells his time for a hundred dollars and you sell yours for twenty dollars an hour. Ned’s money is irrelevant to you. The only real asset you have is your time. The hours of your life.

The key is remembering that anything you buy and don’t use, anything you throw away, anything you consume and don’t enjoy is money down the drain, wasting your life energy and wasting the finite resources of the planet. Any waste of your life energy means more hours lost to the rat race, making a dying. Frugality is the user-friendly and earth-friendly lifestyle.