Simple living Quotes · Page 3

To me, voluntary simplicity means integration and awareness in my life.

— Duane Elgin

I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.

— George Santayana

Well, all I need ,Is the air I breathe ,And a place to rest My head

— OneRepublic

The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.

— Doris Janzen Longacre

Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.

— Henry David Thoreau

We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

— Agatha Christie

The new morality does not consist in saving but in expanding consumption.

— Simon N. Patten

We will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things.

— John Desmond Bernal

The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of…

— Elise M. Boulding

Poverty is mean and degrading to the human spirit, whereas a life of conscious simplicity can have both a beauty and a…

— Duane Elgin

To dig our heels in and say no to a present madness is a good thing, but to walk a new path…

— Jim Wallis

“Forget about the money for a moment. Lose yourself in the wilderness, listen to the music of the softly blowing winds, feel…

— Kiran Bisht

Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyous words in the language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off…

— Elise M. Boulding

Now and then, living more with less means paying more money. It may mean buying better quality - leaving behind repetitive purchases…

— Doris Janzen Longacre

There is no way to re-enchant our lives in a disenchanted culture except by becoming renegades from that culture and planting the…

— Thomas Moore

About cars: They can list with faithful accuracy each model they acquired through the years, how much they paid for each one,…

— Doris Janzen Longacre

We have to cultivate contentment with what we have. We really don't need much. When you know this, the mind settles down.…

— Tenzin Palmo

“Even if through simple living and rigorous recycling you stopped your own average Americans annual one ton of garbage production, your per…

— Derrick Jensen

There is no formula. We all must become spirited inventors. There's no single answer - not even a single starting point. Even…

— Frances Moore Lappé

A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is…

— Erich Fromm

The simplicity that all this presupposes is not easy to attain. I find that my life constantly threatens to become complex and…

— Thomas Merton

Society, and the family as its psycho social agent, has to solve a difficult problem: How to break a person's will without…

— Erich Fromm

A spiritual retreat is medicine for soul starvation. Through silence, solitary practice, and simple living, we begin to fill the empty reservoir.…

— David A. Cooper

It is desirable that a man be clad so simply that he can lay his hands on himself in the dark, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

Medical experts now estimate that 80 percent of diseases are directly linked to frantic living.

— Doris Janzen Longacre

“The best gift we can give to our children is a greener future. We don’t need to give them anything special.”

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God is the god of his idolatry.

— William Bernard Ullathorne

“Fill everything, but own nothing. We are vessels, not containers”

— Anonymous

In the end, what affects your life most deeply are things too simple to talk about.

— Nell Blaine

Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God, this is the god of idolatry.

— William Bernard Ullathorne

If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, This is the best season of your life.

— Wumen Huikai

There are two ways to be rich: 1. Acquire great wealth 2. Acquire few needs.

— Doris Janzen Longacre

“Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I consciously started to live simply when I started to become conscious.

— Duane Elgin

Does the end justify the means? Or should it be, Do the ends justify the mean; do the extremes justify moderation?

— Daniel N. Robinson

Time with yourself, with your family, and with your God may prove to be the ultimate saving.

— Doris Janzen Longacre

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

— Lin Yutang

The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room.

— Freya Stark