Westerners Quote by Jane Goodall

“Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, the most helpless and diseased, which in others are luxuries merely, and in others…

— Henry David Thoreau

“give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“Were it not for habit, life would seem delightful to beings constantly under threat of dying, in other words to all humankind.”

— Marcel Proust

“that life was full of small comforts which were all the time making for happiness, and that we did not sufficiently appreciate them.”

— Katrina Avilla Munichiello

“I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle…

— Annie Dillard

“The life of less, one bent on simplicity, and not needing or wanting anything other than what God has deemed good for you turns…

— Hayley and Michael DiMarco

“Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of…

— Henry David Thoreau

“We should not expect to have all the blessings of life and none of its trials. It would make this world too delightful a…

— Tamera Alexander

“I wondered if there was any way to live amongst other people and refuse to be harnessed by their expectations and dependencies.”

— Robin Hobb

“And though we have all the comforts of the world, we find no comfort in them.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

“A comfortable and easy life leaves no room for growth. We must therefore embrace our hardships and the lessons they bring.”

— Peprah Boasiako

“Absent a sense of the preciousness of one's own life, why respect the life of anyone else?”

— Kentetsu Takamori