Simple Living Quotes
86 quotes by 67 authors
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You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
— William Blake
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Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored.
— Laozi
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Happiness blooms naturally in the hearts of those who are inwardly free. It flows spontaneously, like a mountain spring after April showers, in minds that…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God, this is the god of idolatry.
— William Bernard Ullathorne
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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick.
— John Steinbeck
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We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.
— Agatha Christie
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We need not want what we are the middle of.
— James Bertolino
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Things that don't get better, get worse.
— Ellen Stern
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Anyone who isn't confused doesn't understand what's going on.
— Dimitri Simes
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The worst way to improve the world is to condemn it.
— Philip James Bailey
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Anything that exists is possible.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants…
— Erich Fromm
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Many of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom - the less you…
— E F Schumacher
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Society, and the family as its psycho social agent, has to solve a difficult problem: How to break a person's will without his being aware…
— Erich Fromm
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The new morality does not consist in saving but in expanding consumption.
— Simon N. Patten
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I wish I were either rich enough or poor enough to do a lot of things that are impossible in my present comfortable circumstances.
— Don Herold
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Does the end justify the means? Or should it be, Do the ends justify the mean; do the extremes justify moderation?
— Daniel N. Robinson
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What we really need is to realize how little we really need.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
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Life truly is a journey, and the less baggage we carry the easier the ride.
— Wally Amos
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Paying attention at every moment, forms a new relationship to time. In some magical way, by slowing down, you become more efficient, productive, and energetic,…
— Michael Ray
Who Wrote These Simple Living Quotes
67 authors contributed a total of 86 Simple Living Quotes, led by these top contributors: