I’m just a simple guy, I live from day to day. A ray of sunshine melts my frown and blows my blues away. – Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, and John Bonham, “Out On The Tiles” (Led Zeppelin)
Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than submit to the desolation of an empty abundance. – Michael Harrington
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
