Real wisdom is simple. Living life rightly does not have to be a complicated challenge. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
“Simplicity is complex. It's never simple to keep things simple. Simple solutions require the most advanced thinking.” — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement. — William Morris Copy Share Image
It seems to me that inner growth is the whole moving force behind voluntary simplicity. — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of Courage-to move in the opposite direction. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“People no longer live by sun and moon, by wind and stars, but by some slyly contrived conventions known as clocks and… — Matthew Goldman Copy Share Image
I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
Many of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom -… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Respectability and security are subtle traps on life's journey. Those who are drawn to extremes are often nearer to renewal and self-discovery.… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“If we open our eyes to simplicity, we may discover serene pleasures scattered around us, quietly waiting to be noticed.” — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
“Why do you have to develop? If economic growth rises from 5% to 10%, is happiness going to double? What's wrong with… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
To be contemplative we must remove the clutter from our lives, surround ourselves with beauty, and consciously, relentlessly, persistently, give clutter away… — Joan D. Chittister 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
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
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
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
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
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
Simplicity is an enduring habit within a soul that has grown impervious to evil thoughts. — John Climacus Copy Share Image
To live without that enchantment of beauty is to interpret frugality and simple living with a puritan literalism — John Lane 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
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
We must redefine the American Dream before we rebuild the infrastructure on which it is based. — Paolo Soleri 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
Voluntary simplicity has more to do with the state of mind than a person's physical surroundings and possessions. — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God, this is the god of idolatry. — William Bernard Ullathorne Copy Share Image
If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, This is the best season of your life. — Wumen Huikai Copy Share Image
There are two ways to be rich: 1. Acquire great wealth 2. Acquire few needs. — Doris Janzen Longacre Copy Share Image
“Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
I consciously started to live simply when I started to become conscious. — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
Does the end justify the means? Or should it be, Do the ends justify the mean; do the extremes justify moderation? — Daniel N. Robinson Copy Share Image
