Shopaholic Quotes

“sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess

“Everyone's moving on without me, into a world I don't understand.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Confessions of a Shopaholic

“There's no luck in business. There's only drive, determination, and more drive.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic Takes Manhattan

“This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic Ties the Knot

“People who want to make a million borrow a million first”
― Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic Takes Manhattan

“Some things are best left a blur. Births and Visa Bills.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic & Baby

“That's the trouble with having the whole world love you. One day, you wake up and it's flirting with your best friend instead. And you don't know what to do. You're thrown.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic Takes Manhattan

“It's a GIRL.
It's a little girl, with scrunched-up petal lips and a tuft of dark hair and hands in tiny fits, up by her ears. All that time, that's who was in there. And it's weird, but the minute I saw her I just thought: IT'S YOU. Of course it is.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic & Baby

“You look... amazing!"
And I have to say, I agree. I'm wearing all black - but expensive black. The kind of deep, soft black that you fall into. A simple sleeveless dress from Whistles, the highest of Jimmy Choos, a pair of stunning uncut amethyst earrings. And please don't ask how much it all cost, because that's irrelevant. This is investment shopping. The biggest investment of my life.
I haven't eaten anything all day so I'm nice and thin and for once my hair has fallen perfectly into shape. I look... well, I've never looked better in my life.
But of course, looks are only part of the package, aren't they?”
― Sophie Kinsella, Confessions of a Shopaholic

“...What is the key word today? Disposable. The more you can throw it away the more it’s beautiful. The car, the furniture, the wife, the children—everything has to be disposable. Because you see the main thing today is—shopping. Years ago a person, he was unhappy, didn’t know what to do with himself—he’d go to church, start a revolution—something. Today you’re unhappy? Can’t figure it out? What is the salvation? Go shopping....
...If they would close the stores for six months in this country there would be from coast to coast a regular massacre.”
― Arthur Miller

“When people would ask me what I’m addicted to, I always said ‘music.’ And while they’d laugh it off like it’s a cliché, I’m actually a complete shopaholic when it comes to records. I’d literally buy 10 albums a week for years, so when I went to that Virgin Records and it said ‘going out of business,’ my heart stopped.”
― Blake Lewis

“Look into your heart- and go after what you really want.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic Takes Manhattan

“The craving for the thing is rarely met by the satisfaction of getting it. And so we crave more. And the cycle repeats. We are encouraged to want what will only make us want more.

We are, in short, encouraged to be addicts.”
― Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet

“I've purged myself of worldly goods; half my stuff is either being sold or going to charity. I need to go shopping.”
― Christy Leigh Stewart

“Professions of psychiatry, therapy and mindfulness are bound to boom in parallel with unmoderated consumerism, for unmoderated consumerism facilitates self-absorption which in turn breeds anxiety, and the more anxious you are, the more you need expert help to deal with that anxiety.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society

“Sonnet of Consumerism

Ever wonder in a world of consumerism,
Who's the consumer, who's the product!
You may think that you are the one owning things,
But it's the things that own you, head and heart.
When unmoderated materialism is the world's norm,
Consumer is the product, product does the consuming.
And this insanity is revered as industrial growth,
Then they wonder, why is there so much suffering!
The point is, your insecurity is good for business,
The shallower you are, the more your pocket empties.
But if you don't wanna end up at la casa de loco,
Stop living in products and focus on memories.
Corporations chasing revenue cause economic disparity.
Buy less, buy local, to construct a sustainable economy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“Gratification without moderation ruins all internal wellness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“If half the population gave up their luxuries, the entire population will be rid of disparities.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier

“Capitalists don't cause disparities, everyday, ordinary people like you and I do, by falling for their same old pitch of comfort and luxury.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier

“Every single public figure on earth who has something to gain from your lack of self-restraint will continue to peddle self-obsession in the name of self-love, freedom and so on, but know that these so-called popular personalities are no more unfragmented than those white nationalist, gun-bearing dirtballs.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier

“Husbands should not memorize conversations, word for word. It’s against the whole spirit of marriage.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic to the Stars

“Your desire for unrestrained comfort is the oligarch's superpower. Cut yourself off from luxury, and you'll cut off the oligarchs from their powers.”
― Abhijit Naskar, High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination

“You buy a car for transport, not to live at the gas station. Likewise, you earn money to access essentials, not to live at the shopping mall.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“Happiness happens not by avoiding pain, but by avoiding luxury – by avoiding materialistic obsession.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“There is a life outside the shopping mall. When you understand this, you'll understand sustainability.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“With superior sentience, come superior screw-ups. And this holds particularly true for industrialization. Even if we put aside carbon emission, in the year 2020 alone humankind has produced over 2 billion tonnes of trash, which is expected to rise over 70% by the year 2050.

Thus, in the name of progress we the gadget-mad gargoyles keep acting as the true eco-terrorists of the glorious dumping ground, called the planet earth. 2% of all our waste is e-waste. And the alarming bit here is that, that 2% e-waste comprises over 70% of our overall toxic waste.

So, what can you do, you ask? Simple - reject less, repair more. Try to make things last as long as possible, or pass them on to those who have need for them. Don't let things go to waste, just because you can afford new ones.

For example, my kid cousin's laptop has been acting up for some time now. But instead of buying them a new pc, I ordered the replacement for the faulty part and repaired the laptop myself. This way, we not only reduce our e-waste footprint on the planet, but in the process, we teach kids to value things.

The point is, whether you do it yourself or get it done by a professional, by practicing repair, you are actively participating in the making of a greener, cleaner and healthier world.

It's not enough to be just a consumer, you gotta be a conscious consumer, otherwise there is no difference between a consumer and a slave. That is why, right-to-repair is not only a human rights issue, it is also an environmental issue. Repairing and recycling are the bedrock of sustainability. So I say again - reject less, repair more.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament

“Reject less, repair more.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament

“It's not enough to be just a consumer, you gotta be a conscious consumer, otherwise there is no difference between a consumer and a slave.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament

“Sense yearnings sap your inner peace; they are like openings in a reservoir that permit vital waters to be wasted in the desert soil of materialism.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

“[Shopping is a] Mardi Gras of consumerism.”
― Russell Brand, Revolution