“If one's life is
simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness.
Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction
with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements.
And finally, there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and
in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.” - The
Dalai Lama
“Simplicity
is the ultimate sophistication.” -- Leonardo da Vinci
If
you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally
make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with
your poverty bought a lifetime of days. -- Annie Dillard
Everything should
be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. -- Albert
Einstein
I
believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best
both for the body and the mind. -- Albert
Einstein
“Three
Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the
middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” -- Albert
Einstein
The
intention of this way of life [voluntary simplicity] is not to dogmatically live
with less. It's a more demanding intention of living with balance. This is a middle
way that moves between the extremes of poverty and indulgence. ~
Duane Elgin
There's enough
on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.
-- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
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“Live simply so that others may simply live.”
-- Mohandas
Gandhi
Man
falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living
and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply
his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
-- Mohandas
Gandhi
*
There's
enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not
for everyone's greed.
~ Mohandas
Gandhi
Simplicity,
clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness
and joy. -- Richard Halloway
Our
affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer
poverty, to choose it, rather than submit to the desolation of an empty abundance.
-- Michael Harrington
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"The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is
compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even competitive."
~ Paul Hawken
Simplicity
is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty. -- Mahlon Hoagland
The
ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may
speak. -- Hans Hofmann
The
world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of
rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those
who have not tried it. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
I
have come to terms with the future. From this day onward I will walk easy on the
earth. Plant trees. Kill no living things. Live in harmony with all creatures.
I will restore the earth where I am. Use no more of its resources than I need.
And listen, listen to what it is telling me. -- M.J. Slim Hooey
We
don't need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants.
Not wanting something is as good as possessing it. -- Donald Horban
Materialism
is the only form of distraction from true bliss. -- Doug Horton
You
have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
-- Vernon Howard
The
sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble
block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination. -- Elbert Hubbard
The
wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.
-- W. R. Inge
Voluntary
simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so
I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.
-- John Kabat-Zinn
The
little things? The little moments? They aren't little. -- John Kabat-Zinn
Purity and
simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary
nature. -- Thomas a Kempis
Nature
uses as little as possible of anything. -- Johannes Keppler
Teach
us delight in the simple things, And mirth that has no bitter springs;
Forgiveness free of evil done, And love to all men beneath the sun.
-- Rudyard Kipling
