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Favorite LESS IS NOW Quotes

Added 2021-01-03 16:00:03 +0000 UTC

What was your favorite quote from LESS IS NOW? Let us know in the comments below.

Here are some of our favorite lines from the film:

“I think we should all be allowed to Etch A Sketch our life, and say, ‘you know, I thought this was the life I wanted, but it's not, and so I'm going to start over again.’” —Erwin McManus

“We are worshiping at the altar of stuff; we have officially contracted the disease of stuff-itis.” —Dave Ramsey

“One of the tricks corporations use is what we call ‘deficit advertising’; they send us advertisements that make us subconsciously feel that we are inadequate if we don’t have a product.” —Annie Leonard

“When you’ve run out of purposeful things to do with things—even if you only have one thing—you already have too many things.” —T.K. Coleman

“The reason the message of minimalism is so powerful is because we’re bingeing on all the wrong things, and we’re dying of hunger for the things that really matter.” —Erwin McManus

“It’s so easy to buy things that we think are the solution to our problems.” —Denaye Barahona

“It took getting everything I thought I wanted to realize that maybe everything I ever wanted wasn’t actually what I wanted at all.” —Joshua Fields Millburn

“The reason we are so depressed and so empty when we have so much is that if you get more of the wrong thing, it becomes less.” —Erwin McManus

“I got my time back. I got my life back! … and to get there, you might have to let go of some stuff that’s in the way.” —Ryan Nicodemus

“There has to be more to life than just working.” —Victor Zeledon

“The American Dream has become the American Nightmare.” —Erwin McManus

“As I started slowly releasing things, I gained a sense of freedom.” —Amelia Phipps

“What other people are selling is not always compatible with what you need.” —T.K. Coleman

“I was wasting money on things I already have.” —Ashley Fairley

“You gave up your freedom in exchange for some stuff that’s going to be worth nothing in next year’s garage sale.” —Dave Ramsey

“This overwhelming emotion washed over me—this feeling of great abundance … This deep knowing that all I wanted, all I was searching for, all I needed, I already had it.” —Michael Marashlian