To know you have enough is to be rich.
-- Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.
-- Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching

I have learned by some experience, by many examples, and by the writings of countless others before me, also occupied in the search, that certain environments, certain modes of life, certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.
-- Ann Morrow Lindbergh (Gift from the Sea)

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

“In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
-- Charles Mingus

Eliminate physical clutter. More importantly, eliminate spiritual clutter.
--D.H. Mondfleur

You can't force simplicity; but you can invite it in by finding as much richness as possible in the few things at hand. Simplicity doesn't mean meagerness but rather a certain kind of richness, the fullness that appears when we stop stuffing the world with things.
-- Thomas Moore

 

The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. Thomas More

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

 

One of the advantages of being born in an affluent society is that if one has any intelligence at all, one will realize that having more and more won't solve the problem, and happiness does not lie in possessions, or even relationships: The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside. -- Tenzin Palmo

 

Simplicity involves unburdening your life, and living more lightly with fewer distractions that interfere with a high quality life, as defined uniquely by each individual. You will find people living simply in large cities, rural areas and everything in between.
-- Linda Breen Pierce

The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.
-- Plautus

Simplicity is the nature of great souls.
-- Papa Ramadas

 

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like. -- Will Rogers

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

 

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SIMPLICITY
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Mohandas Gandhi | Henry David Thoreau

Simplicity Day - July 12

 

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