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Most
people seek after what they do not possess and are
thus enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
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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
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Infinite
growth of material consumption in a finite world
is an impossibility.
~ E. F. Schumacher
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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
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voluntary
simplicity is helping people change their lives
and collectively helping to create a better world.
-- Robert Alan Silverstein
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Choosing
simplicity is a way to refine your life, define
your purpose, and lift you from the confines of
ordinary existence...
-- Robert Alan Silverstein
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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
