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  • If you're a simple person today, and want to live simply, that is awfully seditious. And to advise people to live simply is more seditious still.

    Simple   People   Want  
    "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.
  • As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

    Life   Peace   Simple  
    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.88, BookBaby
  • Simplicity means to feel such a sense of kinship with others that we choose to live simply so that others may simply live.

    Mean   Simplicity   May  
  • We can live as we were meant to live - simply, joyously, of and on the earth. We can live with all our effort and with pure happiness.

    Effort   Earth   Vegan  
    Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.225, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.

  • Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

    Life   Business   Simple  
    Walden ch. 2 (1854)
  • We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.

    Money   Light   Enemy  
    John R. W. Stott (1999). “Our Social and Sexual Revolution: Major Issues for a New Century”, Baker Publishing Group
  • But I deal with this by meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.

  • It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the evenings, and live simply, and eat sparingly, and recover the use of our legs, and get up early enough to see the sun rise.

    "Mrs. Miniver".
  • We, who have so much, must do more to help those in need. And most of all, we must live simply, so that others may simply live.

    Simplicity   Needs   May  
  • Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

    Kurt Vonnegut (2010). “Slapstick or Lonesome No More”, p.7, Random House
  • People this stupid shouldn't be allowed to live.

    "Fiсtional character: George Costanza". "Seinfeld", www.abc.net.au. 1989-1998.
  • Live simply. Give more. Expect less.

  • The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by.

    Happiness   Hate   Heart  
  • Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.

    Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion
  • We are finally living in Plato's cave, if we consider how those who were imprisoned within the cave - who could do nothing but watch those shadows passing on the back wall - were convinced that those shadows were their one and only reality. I see a profound similarity to all this in the epoch we're now living in. We no longer live simply through images: we live through images that don't even exist, which are the result not of physical projection but of pure virtuality.

    Wall   Plato   Reality  
  • What steps can I take to reduce the clutter so that I may live simply and joyously?

    May   Steps   Live Simply  
    Douglas Bloch (1992). “I Am With You Always: A Treasury of Inspirational Quotations, Poems and Prayers”, p.86, BookBaby
  • If you want to be free, learn to live simply.

    Want   Live Simply   Ifs  
    John HEider (2015). “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age”, p.80, Green Dragon Books
  • Live simply; make compassionate choices when it comes to food.

  • Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

    Life   Simple   Greed  
    Edwin Way Teale (1953). “Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year”
  • I’ve stripped my life down,” he told me. “I don’t need much. I have all the company I want to keep right in here.” He shot himself in the head with his fingers. “People don’t understand about the need to live simply. They make appointments all day. They even schedule their own deaths. The first time they’ll have freedom to really be themselves is when they no longer exist. But up here, there’s nothing but me and the sky. A million billion stars.

    Stars   Sky   People  
  • Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind.

    Mind   Clarity   Moments  
  • I am teaching you to live simply. To live with an idea is a very complicated living, it is cunning. To live simply, just like trees and birds.

    Teaching   Ideas   Bird  
  • Live simply so that others may simply live.

  • To know how other people behave takes intelligence, but to know myself takes wisdom. To manage other people's lives takes strength, but to manage my own life takes true power. If I am content with what I have, I can live simply and enjoy both prosperity and free time. If my goals are clear, I can achieve them without fuss. If I am at peace with myself, I will not spend my life force in conflicts. If I have learned to let go, I do not need to fear dying.

    John HEider (2015). “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age”, p.33, Green Dragon Books
  • It is desirable that a man be clad so simply that he can lay his hands on himself in the dark, and that he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly, that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk out the gate empty-handed without anxiety.

    Men   Anxiety   Enemy  
    "The Illustrated Walden: Thoreau Bicentennial Edition".
  • Free your heart from hatred - forgive. Free your mind from worries - most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.

  • It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

    Courage   Moving   Simple  
    "Small is Beautiful". The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5, (p. 22), August 1973.
  • I consciously started to live simply when I started to become conscious.

  • Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

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