Simple living Quotes · Page 2

Simplicity is the whole secret of well-being.

— Peter Matthiessen

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

— George Santayana

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Simon N. Patten

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— John Desmond Bernal

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

— Doris Janzen Longacre

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

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

Living simply means concentrating on what's important in light of eternity. And not taking the rest of life too seriously.

— Annie Chapman

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

— Jim Wallis

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

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

“...there are often many things we feel we should do that, in fact, we don't really have to do. Getting to the…

— Elaine St. James

Living is really pretty simple. Living happens right now; it doesn't happen back then, and it doesn't happen out there. Living is…

— Werner Erhard

As a myth of national purpose and as a program for individual conduct, the simple life has, in a sense, served as…

— David Shi

“Living aboard one's sailboat and having neither house nor vehicle nor job, and needing none, would be hubris—the most arrogant presumption—and therefore…

— Matthew Goldman

“When we black people commit ourselves to living simply as a political action, as a way of breaking the stress caused by…

— bell hooks

If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what…

— Dalai Lama

If it hasn't already done so, the church... must recognize that it lives in a pagan society; it must seek for values…

— Doris Janzen Longacre

“I have never aspired to be the greatest cook, but rather the greatest at inspiring others to cook. I believe the best…

— Alyce Alexandra

I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount…

— Albert Einstein

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

— Derrick Jensen

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

— Doris Janzen Longacre

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

— Duane Elgin

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

— William Bernard Ullathorne

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

— Daniel N. Robinson

People know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence.

— Abdul Sattar Edhi

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

— Freya Stark

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

— Helen Keller

Voluntary simplicity has more to do with the state of mind than a person's physical surroundings and possessions.

— Duane Elgin

It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of Courage-to move in the opposite direction.

— Albert Einstein

Anyone who isn't confused doesn't understand what's going on.

— Dimitri Simes

It seems to me that inner growth is the whole moving force behind voluntary simplicity.

— Duane Elgin

We must redefine the American Dream before we rebuild the infrastructure on which it is based.

— Paolo Soleri

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

— Marshall McLuhan