"It is a myth to believe that 'If I only had a little more - - or a lot more! -- money than I'd be happy. Unless you have a balanced "relationship" to money, having a little more money just might make you more unbalanced and miserable. Spenders will overspend more wildly, avoiders feel more anxious, money monks more conflicted, hoarders will save more compulsively. So the goal is to move toward money harmony, not merely to amass more money."  Olivia Mellan

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants." 

Esther De Waal

"Instead of a family outing revolving around a shop or an eatery we're now likely to take a walk along the river.  We've seen we can subsist on much less." 

Molly Nee

"Junk is the stuff we throw away. Stuff is the junk we save."

Frank Tyger

"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.  You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.  You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn." 

Abraham Lincoln

"The affluence that surrounds us has been called the American Dream, and with good reason: we've been asleep.  We wake up questioning the dream."

From Your Money or Your Life by Robin & Dominguez

"Frugality means we are to enjoy what we have.  If you have ten dresses but still feel you have nothing to wear, you are probably a spendthrift.  But if you have ten dresses and have enjoyed wearing all of them for years, you are frugal.  Waste lies not in the number of possessions but in the failure to enjoy them.  Your success at being frugal is measured not by your penny-pinching but by your degree of enjoyment of the material world."

From Your Money or Your Life by Robin & Dominguez

"Financial Intelligence is knowing that if you spend your life energy on stuff that brings only passing fullfillment and doesn't support your values, you end up with less life."

From Your Money or Your Life by Robin and Dominguez

"Clutter is anything that is excess--for you.  It's whatever you have that doesn't serve you, yet takes up space in your world.  To let go of clutter, then, is not deprivation; it's lightening up and opening up space for something new to happen." 

From Your Money or Your Life by Robin & Dominguez

"Leisure was not, in fact, an excuse to relax.  It was a hole to fill up with more wants (which, in turn, required more work to pay for them)."

From Your Money or Your Life by Robin & Dominguez