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“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
*
“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
*
"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
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