The simple joy of having just enough. – Dr.SunWolf, 2015 tweet, professorsunwolf.com
To those who complain of the complexity of modern life, he [Henry David Thoreau] might reply, “If you want inner peace find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.” – Stewart Udall, The Quiet Crisis, 1963
What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Life is amazingly good when it’s simple and amazingly simple when it’s good. – Terri Guillemets
Simplify, then add lightness. – Colin Chapman
The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go. – Steve Maraboli
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. – Henry David Thoreau
The greatest truths are the simplest: so likewise are the greatest men. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers
Beware the barrenness of a busy life. – Socrates
If you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. – Annie Dillard, “Seeing,” Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 1974
Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. – Lao Tzu
We don’t need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it. – Donald Horban
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves. – Edwin Way Teale
The goal of life: simple but not empty. – Terri Guillemets
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed — it is a process of elimination. – Elbert Hubbard
Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down. – Chinese Proverb
Simplicity is the seal of truth. – Proverb
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. – Philip James Bailey
During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo. – Honore de Balzac
I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says Im a singer. So I sing. – Tony Bennett
