Who
is rich? He who rejoices in his portion.
-- The Talmud
Reduce the complexity of life
by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.
-- Edwin Way Teale
“It’s
not funny at all that we do all that advertising for children. Why is advertising
for children allowed? What possible reason can there be for having those effing
adverts on ITV for all this crap that’s made by poor people in poor countries
that we sell our children who have too much?
-- Emma
Thompson |  |
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Our life is
frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify, simplify! ... Simplicity of life
and elevation of purpose.
-- Henry
David Thoreau *
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
-- Henry
David Thoreau
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Go
confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As
you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will
not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
-- Henry
David Thoreau
"What's
the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"
-- Henry
David Thoreau
Most
of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not
indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. With respect
to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have even lived a more simple and meagre
life than the poor.
-- Henry
David Thoreau
“To
be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school,
but to so love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity,
independence, magnanimity and trust.”
-- Henry David Thoreau
That
man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
-- Henry
David Thoreau
 | “There
is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth”
-- Leo
Tolstoy |
For
fast acting relief; try slowing down.
-- Lily Tomlin
Less
is more.
-- Mies van der Rohe
Simplicity
is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
-- Charles Dudley
Warner (1829-1900)
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Simplicity
is the glory of expression
~ Walt
Whitman After
you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on
- have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains?
Nature remains.
~ Walt
Whitman |
It
is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
--
Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House in the Ozarks by Hines)
I
believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives
and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking. It is the simple things
of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love
and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature. There are not hothouse blossoms
that can compare in beauty and fragrance with my bouquet of wildflowers.
-- Laura Ingalls Wilder
The
aspects of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their simplicity
and familiarity.
-- Prof. Ludwig Wittgenstein
"Think
simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into
the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.”
-- Frank
Lloyd Wright |
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Material
blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of
headache.
-- Philip Wylie
Besides
the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things
undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
-- Lin Yutang
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