"However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts."
-Henry David Thoreau
This quote goes strait to the heart of consumerism. Men and women so caught up, addicted, and set on looking for happiness in things we can buy in stores rather then finding happiness, what we're all looking for, in beautiful contentment in one's self. This quote is the healer of all consumerists. Sell your things, leave yourself, and find yourself.
You know--Thoreau gave it up to live in the woods, which were, incidentally, only a little ways from town.
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