Quotes

Published September 24, 2011

Eliminate physical clutter. More importantly, eliminate spiritual clutter. — Terri Guillemets

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

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

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. — Confucius

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. — Albert Einstein

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough. — Anonymous

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache. — Philip Wylie

Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. — William Morris

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. — Leonardo DaVinci

Live simply so that others might simply live. — Elizabeth Ann Seton

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. — Hans Hofmann

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

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. —Vernon Howard

What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us. — Robert Brault

The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go. — Steve Maraboli

Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it. — Robert Brault

The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich and creative, it isn’t simple. — Doris Janzen Longacre

The best things in life are nearest to you: the 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

Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realise there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. — Lao Tzu

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