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  • Real wisdom is simple. Living life rightly does not have to be a complicated challenge.

    Real   Live Life   Simple  
  • You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

    William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.77, Oxford University Press, USA
  • 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
  • He who knows he has enough is rich.

    Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage
  • There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

    Peace   Ubuntu   Long  
    "The Medium is the Massage : An Inventory of Effects". Book by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, 1967.
  • The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

    "Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book that Changes Lives". Book by Dan Millman, p. 162, 2006.
  • To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.

    Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.2
  • To dig our heels in and say no to a present madness is a good thing, but to walk a new path and say yes is a better thing.

    Simple   Path   Madness  
  • Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

    Life   Business   Simple  
    Walden ch. 2 (1854)
  • I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.

    Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "The Irony of Liberalism" (1922)
  • You can never get enough of what you don't want.

    Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Does the end justify the means? Or should it be, Do the ends justify the mean; do the extremes justify moderation?

    Mean   Simple   Doe  
  • Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.

  • 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 of it? Yet by a complicated process of indoctrination, rewards, punishments, and fitting ideology, it solves this task by and large so well that most people believe they are following their own will and are unaware that their will itself is conditioned and manipulated.

    Erich Fromm (2013). “To Have Or To Be?”, p.67, A&C Black
  • Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than being... and consumerism is hardly the sin of the rich. The poor, driven by discontent and envy, may be as consumed by what they do not have as the rich are consumed by what they do have. The question is not, certainly not most importantly, a question about economics. It is first and foremost a cultural and moral problem requiring a cultural and moral remedy.

    Simple   Envy   May  
    "Doing Well and Doing Good: The Challenge to the Christian Capitalist". Book by Richard John Neuhaus, 1992.
  • Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

    Simple   Two   Simplicity  
    Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.144
  • Voluntary simplicity has more to do with the state of mind than a person's physical surroundings and possessions.

  • Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God is the god of his idolatry.

    Simple   Men   Honor  
    "Patience and Humility: A Handbook for Christians".
  • With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

    Life   Flower   Book  
  • Only great minds can afford a simple style.

    Stendhal (1967). “On Love”
  • To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else

  • This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

    1837 'The American Scholar', lecture at Harvard University.
  • I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the labour of my fellow men. I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force. I also consider that plain living is good for everybody, physically and mentally.

    Simple   Men   Class  
    Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.168, Open Road Media
  • I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

    Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "The Irony of Liberalism" (1922)
  • It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

    Sweet   Real   Simple  
    Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (1991). “Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings”, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.

    Life   Food   Simplicity  
  • 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, focusing without distraction directly on the task in front of you. Not only do you become immersed in the moment, you become that moment.

  • There is no way to re-enchant our lives in a disenchanted culture except by becoming renegades from that culture and planting the seeds for a new one.

  • Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

    Motivational   Time   Art  
    "Pearls of Wisdom: A Harvest of Quotations From All Ages" by Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze, (p. 46), 1987.
  • Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is known in simplicity, and its influence is direct.

    Jesus   Lying   Simple  
    Albert Schweitzer (2012). “The Quest of the Historical Jesus”, p.399, Courier Corporation
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