Voluntary simplicity has more to do with the state of mind than a person's physical surroundings and possessions. — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
People know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence. — Abdul Sattar Edhi Copy Share Image
People say "I want peace." If you remove I (ego), and your want (desire), you are left with peace. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
We must redefine the American Dream before we rebuild the infrastructure on which it is based. — Paolo Soleri Copy Share Image
We live in a society either scarred by scarcity or spoiled by luxury. We have no idea how much is enough. We… — Sharif Abdullah Copy Share Image
America of the future will be all malls connected by interstates. All because your parents no longer can their own tomatoes. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
One remarkable feature of the devotional masters is the incredible sense of uniform witness in the midst of such diverse personalities... and… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Simplicity of living, if deliberately chosen, implies a compassionate approach to life. It means that we are choosing to live our daily… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored. — Laozi Copy Share Image
It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
Paying attention at every moment, forms a new relationship to time. In some magical way, by slowing down, you become more efficient,… — Michael Ray Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The simplicity that all this presupposes is not easy to attain. I find that my life constantly threatens to become complex and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
“Before researchers become researchers they should become philosophers. They should consider what the human goal is, what it is that humanity should… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
“I do not particularly like the word 'work.' Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and I think that… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
