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By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere…
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Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity; it is a state of being, a profound emotional balance struck by a subtle…
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The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.
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Knowledge does not mean mastering a great quantity of different information, but understanding the nature of mind. This knowledge can penetrate each…
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Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy…
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What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.
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Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.
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When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this…
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Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success
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Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious…
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By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain…
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Humility does not mean believing oneself to be inferior, but to be freed from self-importance. It is a state of natural simplicity…
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We, who have so much, must do more to help those in need. And most of all, we must live simply, so…
— Ed Begley, Jr.
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Live simply that others might simply live.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.
— John Stott
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Live simply and without thinking too much, like a child with his father. Faith without too much thinking works wonders. The logical…
— Elder Paisios of Mount Athos
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But I deal with this by meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to…
— Sandra Cisneros
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In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Just as we need the courage to be happy, we also need the courage to live simply.
— Pope Francis
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Free your heart from hatred - forgive. Free your mind from worries - most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you…
— Stephen Covey
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I consciously started to live simply when I started to become conscious.
— Duane Elgin
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To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your…
— Anton Chekhov
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Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind.
— Matthieu Ricard
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It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the…
— Jan Struther
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