Quotes on Simple Living

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

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

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

We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods.

I recommend to you holy simplicity.

Excess and deficiency are equally at fault.

If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.

Great ideas come into the world as gently as doves.

Happiness blooms naturally in the hearts of those who are inwardly free. It flows spontaneously, like a mountain spring after April showers, in minds that are contented with simple living.

Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored.

We have to cultivate contentment with what we have. We really don't need much. When you know this, the mind settles down. Cultivate generosity. Delight in giving. Learn to live lightly. In this way, we can begin to transform what is negative into what is positive. This is how we start to grow up.

He who knows he has enough is rich.

Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

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.

Live simply so that others may simply live.

There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.