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If you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding

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

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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. – Albert Einstein, possibly a paraphrase by Roger Sessions

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In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. – Henry David Thoreau

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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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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

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