Time with yourself, with your family, and with your God may prove to be the ultimate saving. — Doris Janzen Longacre Copy Share Image
Medical experts now estimate that 80 percent of diseases are directly linked to frantic living. — Doris Janzen Longacre Copy Share Image
We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The new morality does not consist in saving but in expanding consumption. — Simon N. Patten Copy Share Image
We will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
“The best gift we can give to our children is a greener future. We don’t need to give them anything special.” — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As my spiritual growth expanded and developed, voluntary simplicity was a natural outgrowth. I came to realize the cost of material accumulation… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
“This is the beautiful secret of minimalism: It may seem like it’s about stuff, but once you’ve cut through the clutter and… — Erica Layne Copy Share Image
Any 'Christians' who take for themselves any more than the plain necessaries of life, live in an open habitual denial of the… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do… — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
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
In the end, what affects your life most deeply are things too simple to talk about. — Nell Blaine Copy Share Image
If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God is the god of his idolatry. — William Bernard Ullathorne 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
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
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
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
“Lower the animal, fancier the extravagance, Fancy car, fancy clothes, fancy mansion. Higher the human, simpler the existence, Simple life orchestrates mindful… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“...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 Copy Share Image
Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in mine,… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Now and then, living more with less means paying more money. It may mean buying better quality - leaving behind repetitive purchases… — Doris Janzen Longacre Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
