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He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu 
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively,
the basic goods of life, with awe,
pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy,
however stale these experiences may have become to others.
- Abraham Maslow
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Less is more.
- Pierre Seghir
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato
Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
- Lao-Tzu
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity,
reduce selfishness, have few desires.
- Lao Tzu
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
He who can give thanks for little
will always find he has enough.
- Anonymous
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
- Amelia Barr
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
The secret to a joyful life is Simplicity -
saying NO to the latest this and the most glamorous that -
saying NO to chasing an overly-demanding career -
saying NO to the stressful demands upon your time and energy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal
of plain living and high thinking
the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants.
Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Whoever does not regard what he has
as most ample wealth, is unhappy,
though he be master of the world.
- Epictetus
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste
that they hurry past it.
- Soren Kierkegaard
He who knows that enough is enough
will always have enough.
- Lao Tzu
What we enjoy constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Every increased possession
loads us with a new weariness.
- John Ruskin
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
Your children need your presence
more than your presents.
- Jesse Jackson
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- Henry David Thoreau
To live a pure unselfish life,
one must count nothing as one's own
in the midst of abundance.
- The Buddha
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants,
and to serve them one's self?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being
that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim
Most of the fundamental ideas of science
are essentially simple,
and may, as a rule, be expressed
in a language comprehensible to everyone.
- Albert Einstein
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 can always do one thing less than you think you can.
- Anonymous
We hardly ever realize that we can
cut anything out of our lives,
anytime, in the blink of an eye.
- Carlos Castaneda
The youth gets together his materials
to build a bridge to the moon,
or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth,
and, at length, the middle-aged man
concludes to build a woodshed with them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Short words are best
and the old words, when short, are best of all.
- Winston Churchill
Lighten up! Slow down the shopping.
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
Consider gifting hand-made cards with messages
of true appreciation in place of store-bought presents.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All philosophy lies in two words,
sustain and abstain.
- Epictetus
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Anything that costs you more hours of effort or worry
than it brings you hours of enjoyment
is a candidate for downsizing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill.
Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
- Lao Tzu
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
Personally, I have fond memories of playing
on slippery rocks on the banks of a rushing river
as a child and hitchhiking in college.
To those who say, "But times are different now,"
I reply that statistically life is much safer now
than in the 1950s, with regard to both crime and accidents.
What has changed is our attitudes.
In those years, a broken leg from falling off a swing
or the back of a tractor was just part of childhood -
an excuse for gathering autographs.
Today that broken leg would be a source
of outrage and probably lawsuits.
I long for a simpler time when life was taken less seriously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is neither wealth nor splendor;
but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
Three Rules of Work:
Out of clutter find simplicity;
From discord find harmony;
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein
Balance activity with serenity,
wealth with simplicity,
persistence with innovation,
community with solitude,
familiarity with adventure,
constancy with change,
leading with following.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin;
what else does a man need to be happy?
- Albert Einstein
Do not trouble yourself much
to get new things, whether clothes or friends...
Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
- Henry David Thoreau
The man who is awakened, lives in such a way
that he leaves no footprints.
- Osho quoting The Buddha
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Priorities - what's really important -
health, and doing what one wants to do -
it's certainly not money.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Find your balance and stand with it.
Find your song and sing it out.
Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance.
Find the questions that only you know how to ask and
The answers that you are content to not know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I look to a day when people will not be judged
by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You should never be content with so little,
when you can reach out for something big.
- Charles L. Allen
(This quote is about making a big difference
in the world - not about greed)
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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