"It is the sweet, simple things of life
which are the real ones after all."
~Laura Ingals
"The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things,
and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things."
~Elise Boulding
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
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I Like
"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
"Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful." ~William Morris
"I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love,
work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them."
~Sherwood Anderson
"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
"To find the universal elements enough; to find the air
and the water exhilarating;
to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter...
to be thrilled by the stars at night;
to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring
- these are some of the rewards of the simple life."
~John Burroughs
"Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food." ~Frank A. Clark
"The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes,
flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you.
Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain,
common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread
are the sweetest things in life."
~Robert Louis Stevenson
"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.
~George Santayana," "The Irony of Liberalism"
"Live simply that others might simply live." ~Elizabeth Seaton
"Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life,
and the labors of life reduce themselves."
~Edwin Way Teale
"Only as high as I reach can I grow,
only as far as I seek can I go,
only as deep as I look can I see,
only as much as I dream can I be."
~Karen Ravn
"Whatever you are, be a good one."
~Abraham Lincoln
"My interest is in the future
because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."
~Charles Kettering
"Be who you are and say what you feel because
those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind."
~ Dr. Seuss
"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. "
~Winston Churchill
"They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong."
~Ronald Reagan
"Live in the present, and make it so beautiful it will be worth remembering.”
"Eliminate physical clutter. More importantly, eliminate spiritual clutter".
~Terri Guillemets
"Each day, awakening, are we asked to paint the sky blue?
Need we coax the sun to rise or flowers to bloom?
Need we teach birds to sing, or children to laugh, or lovers to kiss?
No, though we think the world imperfect, it surrounds us each day with its perfections.
We are asked only to appreciate them, and to show appreciation
by living in peaceful harmony amidst them.
The Creator does not ask that we create a perfect world;
He asks that we celebrate it."
~Robert Brault
which are the real ones after all."
~Laura Ingals
"The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things,
and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things."
~Elise Boulding
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
QUOTES Quotes QUOTES FryDay
I Like
"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
"Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful." ~William Morris
"I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love,
work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them."
~Sherwood Anderson
"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
"To find the universal elements enough; to find the air
and the water exhilarating;
to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter...
to be thrilled by the stars at night;
to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring
- these are some of the rewards of the simple life."
~John Burroughs
"Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food." ~Frank A. Clark
"The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes,
flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you.
Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain,
common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread
are the sweetest things in life."
~Robert Louis Stevenson
"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.
~George Santayana," "The Irony of Liberalism"
"Live simply that others might simply live." ~Elizabeth Seaton
"Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life,
and the labors of life reduce themselves."
~Edwin Way Teale
"Only as high as I reach can I grow,
only as far as I seek can I go,
only as deep as I look can I see,
only as much as I dream can I be."
~Karen Ravn
"Whatever you are, be a good one."
~Abraham Lincoln
"My interest is in the future
because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."
~Charles Kettering
"Be who you are and say what you feel because
those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind."
~ Dr. Seuss
"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. "
~Winston Churchill
"They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong."
~Ronald Reagan
"Live in the present, and make it so beautiful it will be worth remembering.”
"Eliminate physical clutter. More importantly, eliminate spiritual clutter".
~Terri Guillemets
"Each day, awakening, are we asked to paint the sky blue?
Need we coax the sun to rise or flowers to bloom?
Need we teach birds to sing, or children to laugh, or lovers to kiss?
No, though we think the world imperfect, it surrounds us each day with its perfections.
We are asked only to appreciate them, and to show appreciation
by living in peaceful harmony amidst them.
The Creator does not ask that we create a perfect world;
He asks that we celebrate it."
~Robert Brault
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