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Sayings about Sophistication

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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu PHOTO

He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates PHOTO

He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates

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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

Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato

 

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

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

Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
- Lao-Tzu

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

The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous

Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
- Amelia Barr

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity,
reduce selfishness, have few desires.
- Lao Tzu

He who can give thanks for little
will always find he has enough.
- Anonymous

Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants,
and to serve them one's self?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your children need your presence
more than your presents.
- Jesse Jackson

Every increased possession
loads us with a new weariness.
- John Ruskin

He who knows that enough is enough
will always have enough.
- Lao Tzu

We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson

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

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

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
- Henry David Thoreau

Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard

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

The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To live a pure unselfish life,
one must count nothing as one's own
in the midst of abundance.
- The Buddha

What we enjoy constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus

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

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- Henry David Thoreau

Whoever does not regard what he has
as most ample wealth, is unhappy,
though he be master of the world.
- Epictetus

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

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste
that they hurry past it.
- Soren Kierkegaard

I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein

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

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill.
Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
- Lao Tzu

It is neither wealth nor splendor;
but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short words are best
and the old words, when short, are best of all.
- Winston Churchill

All philosophy lies in two words,
sustain and abstain.
- Epictetus

We hardly ever realize that we can
cut anything out of our lives,
anytime, in the blink of an eye.
- Carlos Castaneda

As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci

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

You can always do one thing less than you think you can.
- Anonymous

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

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin;
what else does a man need to be happy?
- Albert Einstein

The man who is awakened, lives in such a way
that he leaves no footprints.
- Osho quoting The Buddha

Priorities - what's really important -
health, and doing what one wants to do -
it's certainly not money.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Do not trouble yourself much
to get new things, whether clothes or friends...
Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
- Henry David Thoreau

Three Rules of Work:
Out of clutter find simplicity;
From discord find harmony;
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein

There is sanctuary in being alone with nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran

Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional

Trees are the earth's endless effort
to speak to the listening heaven.
- Rabindranath Tagore


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