Most people seek after what they do not possess and are thus enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. -- Anwar Sadat

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction. ~ E. F. Schumacher Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility. ~ E. F. Schumacher

From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity. -- Albert Schweitzer

Live simply that others might simply live.
-- Elizabeth Seaton

Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.
-- Seneca

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
-- Seneca

Practically speaking, a life that is vowed to simplicity, appropriate boldness, good humor, gratitude, unstinting work and play, and lots of walking brings us close to the actual existing world and its wholeness.
-- Gary Snyder

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

 

Simplicity

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SIMPLICITY
HERO PIX

Mohandas Gandhi | Henry David Thoreau

Simplicity Day - July 12

 

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