Most people seek
after what they do not possess and are thus enslaved by the very things they want
to acquire.
-- Anwar
Sadat |  |
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Any intelligent
fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch
of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.
~ E.
F. Schumacher Infinite
growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
~ E.
F. Schumacher |
Live
simply that others might simply live.
-- Elizabeth Seaton
Straightforwardness
and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are
acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.
To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.
-- Seneca
It
is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
-- Seneca
Practically
speaking, a life that is vowed to simplicity, appropriate boldness, good humor,
gratitude, unstinting work and play, and lots of walking brings us close to the
actual existing world and its wholeness.
-- Gary Snyder
The
best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes,
flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you.
Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes,
certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
SIMPLICITY
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