Vicki Robin Quotes & Sayings

Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers. — Vicki Robin

If you want to live for all, you will never meet anywhere — Vicki Robin

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

Life is too precious to be a spectator sport. We are no longer merely fans, rooting for the winning team. We are the team. We are the grown-ups. Whatever you believe is true, now is the time to give your respectful, inquisitive, and compassionate self to it. — Vicki Robin

Could we chose to amend the rules of the game to create a society that values people over profits, life over pollution, mutual care over guns and prisons, vision over dysfunction? — Vicki Robin

It is easier to tell our therapist about our sex life than it is to tell our accountant about our finances. — Vicki Robin

In Nonviolent Communication you will find an amazingly effective language for saying what's on your mind and in your heart. Like so many essential and elegant systems, it's simple on the surface, challenging to use in the heat of the moment and powerful in its results. — Vicki Robin

We no longer live life. We consume it. — Vicki Robin

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

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

Is a way to approach life so that when asked, "Your money or your life?" you say, "I'll take both, thank you. — Vicki Robin

How you spend your money is how you vote on what exists in the world — Vicki Robin

When you have Enough, you have everything you need. There's nothing extra to weigh you down, distract, or distress you. Enough is a fearless place. A trusting place. An honest and self-observant place ... To let go of clutter, then, is not deprivation; it's lightening up and opening up space and time for something new and wonderful to happen. — Vicki Robin

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