Who
is rich? He who rejoices in his portion.
-- The Talmud
Reduce
the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants
of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.
-- Edwin Way Teale
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“It’s
not funny at all that we do all that advertising
for children. Why is advertising for children allowed?
What possible reason can there be for having those
effing adverts on ITV for all this crap that’s made
by poor people in poor countries that we sell our
children who have too much?
-- Emma Thompson
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Our
life is frittered away by detail... Simplify,
simplify, simplify! ... Simplicity of life and
elevation of purpose.
-- Henry David
Thoreau
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Go
confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live
the life you've imagined. As you simplify your
life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
-- Henry David
Thoreau
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Let
go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently
in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've
imagined. 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.
-- Henry David Thoreau
"What's
the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable
planet to put it on?"
-- Henry David Thoreau
Most
of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts
of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive
hindrances to the elevation of mankind. With respect
to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have even lived
a more simple and meagre life than the poor.
-- Henry David Thoreau
“To
be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts,
nor even to found a school, but to so love wisdom as
to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity,
independence, magnanimity and trust.”
-- Henry David Thoreau
That
man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
-- Henry David Thoreau
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.
-- Henry David Thoreau
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“There
is no greatness where there is not simplicity,
goodness, and truth”
-- Leo Tolstoy
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For
fast acting relief; try slowing down.
-- Lily Tomlin
Less
is more.
-- Mies van der Rohe
Simplicity
is making the journey of this life with just baggage
enough.
-- Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900)
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Simplicity
is the glory of expression
~ Walt Whitman
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After
you have exhausted what there is in business,
politics, conviviality, and so on - have found
that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently
wear - what remains? Nature remains.
~ Walt Whitman
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It
is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real
ones after all.
-- Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House in the Ozarks
by Hines)
I
believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution
in our individual lives and go back to simpler living
and more direct thinking. It is the simple things of
life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental
things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living
close to nature. There are not hothouse blossoms that
can compare in beauty and fragrance with my bouquet
of wildflowers.
-- Laura Ingalls Wilder
The
aspects of things that are most important to us are
hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.
-- Prof. Ludwig Wittgenstein
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"Think
simple" as my old master used to say - meaning
reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest
terms, getting back to first principles.”
-- Frank Lloyd
Wright
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Material
blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need,
are weirdly fruitful of headache.
-- Philip Wylie
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.
-- Lin Yutang
