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Vicki Robin QUOTES

Vicki Robin QUOTES

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

― Vicki Robin , Your Money or Your Life

2 " We no longer live life. We consume it. "

― Vicki Robin

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

― Vicki Robin , Your Money or Your Life

4 " It is easier to tell our therapist about our sex life than it is to tell our accountant about our finances. "

― Vicki Robin , Your Money or Your Life

5 " The dreams we had of finding meaning and fulfillment through our jobs have faded into the reality of professional politics, burnout, boredom and intense competition. "

― Vicki Robin

6 " Learn to choose quality of life over standard of living. "

― Vicki Robin , Your Money or Your Life

7 " What's needed isn't change; it is transformation. Change seeks different solutions to intractable problems. Transformation asks different questions so that we can see the problems in a new light. "

― Vicki Robin , Your Money or Your Life

8 " 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. "

― Vicki Robin , Your Money or Your Life

9 " How you spend your money is how you vote on what exists in the world "

― Vicki Robin

10 " Frugality is enjoying the virtue of getting good value for every minute of your life energy and from everything you have the use of. "

― Vicki Robin , Your Money or Your Life

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

― Vicki Robin , Your Money or Your Life

12 " 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. "

― Vicki Robin , Your Money or Your Life

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

― Vicki Robin , Your Money or Your Life

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

― Vicki Robin , Your Money or Your Life

15 " We shift from comparing ourselves to others to considering our real needs and desires. We shift from “more” to “enough” and ultimately get more of what money can’t buy. Priceless. "

― Vicki Robin , Your Money or Your Life

16 " We have devalued the price of the things we need most to survive on a daily basis yet overvalued many of the things we can live without. "

― Vicki Robin , Blessing the Hands That Feed Us: What Eating Closer to Home Can Teach Us About Food, Community, and Our Place on Earth

17 " four rules for getting off the diet-go-round: Eat when you’re hungry. Eat exactly what your body wants. Eat each bite consciously. Stop when your body has had enough.1 Very simple. All you have to do is be conscious "

― Vicki Robin , Your Money or Your Life

18 " Along with racism and sexism, our society has a form of caste system based on what you do for money. We call that jobism, and it pervades our interactions with one another on the job, in social settings and even at home. Why else would we consider housewives second-class citizens? Or teachers lower status than doctors even though their desk-side manner with struggling students is far better than many doctors’ bedside manner with the ill and dying? "

― Vicki Robin , Your Money or Your Life

19 " The only real asset you have is your time. The hours of your life. "

― Vicki Robin , Your Money or Your Life

20 " As you take your eyes off the false prize (of more, better, and different stuff), you put them on the real prizes: friends, family, sharing, caring, learning, meeting challenges, intimacy, rest, and being present, connected, and respected. In other words, those best things in life that are free. Like all things natural, building this wealth takes time, attention, patience, and reciprocity (that volleying of giving and receiving that builds relationships). "

― Vicki Robin , Your Money or Your Life