Best Simple Living Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 5

“Paying attention at every moment, forms a new relationship to time. In some magical way, by slowing down, you become more efficient, productive, and energetic, focusing without distraction directly on the task in front of you. Not only do you become immersed in the moment, you become that moment.”

Way Moments Form Simple Attention Fronts Tasks Pay Attention Productive That Moment Distraction Efficient Slow Down Energetic Simple Living Slowing New Relationship

Author:Michael Ray

“There is no formula. We all must become spirited inventors. There's no single answer - not even a single starting point. Even the 'teachers' ... don't offer us the answer. They do offer us approaches, ways of thinking, possibilities we can adapt, and hope that might generate in us wholly new ideas.”

Thinking Way Ideas Might Simple Answers Teacher Possibility Offers Approach Starting Formulas New Ideas Way Of Thinking Inventor Starting Point Simple Living Spirited

Book:The quickening of America: rebuilding our nation, remaking our lives

Source: The quickening of America: rebuilding our nation, remaking our lives

“The real cultural war is between the culture of narcissism and what might be called the culture of renewal.”

War Real Might Culture Simple Narcissism Renewal Simple Living

Book:Web of Life: Weaving the Values That Sustain Us

Source: Web of Life: Weaving the Values That Sustain Us

“A Simple lifestyle of reduced consumption allows more time for interaction with living, dynamic beings, more opportunity for meeting the Other more fully and unencumbered.”

Opportunity Simple Meetings Lifestyle More Time Interaction Consumption Simple Life Simple Living

Author:Stephanie Kaza

“Are you living just a little and calling that life?”

Littles Simple Calling Simple Life Simple Living

Author:Annie Dillard

“Embody the three harmonies: within; with others; and with nature.”

Three Simple Harmony Simple Living

Author:Robert Gilman

“We live in a society either scarred by scarcity or spoiled by luxury. We have no idea how much is enough. We don't know when to quit.”

Knows Ideas Enough Simple Quitting Luxury No Idea Spoiled Simple Living Scarcity

Book:Creating a World That Works for All

Source: Creating a World That Works for All

“Excess and deficiency are equally at fault.”

Simple Faults Excess Simple Life Deficiency Simple Living

Author:Confucius

“Voluntary simplicity has more to do with the state of mind than a person's physical surroundings and possessions.”

Mind Persons States Simple Simplicity Possession State Of Mind Surroundings Simple Living

Author:Duane Elgin

“As my spiritual growth expanded and developed, voluntary simplicity was a natural outgrowth. I came to realize the cost of material accumulation was too high and offered fewer and fewer real rewards, psychological and spiritual.”

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Author:Duane Elgin

“It seems to me that inner growth is the whole moving force behind voluntary simplicity.”

Whole Seems Moving Force Growth Simple Behinds Simplicity Simple Living Inner Growth

Author:Duane Elgin

“I consciously started to live simply when I started to become conscious.”

Simple Conscious Simple Living Live Simply

Author:Duane Elgin

“To me, voluntary simplicity means integration and awareness in my life.”

Mean Simple Awareness Simplicity Integration Simple Life Simple Living

Author:Duane Elgin

“America of the future will be all malls connected by interstates. All because your parents no longer can their own tomatoes.”

America Parent Simple Connected Malls Simple Living Tomatoes Interstate

Author:Garrison Keillor

“We will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things.”

Giving Simple Giving Up Granted Simple Things Simple Living Taking Things For Granted

Book:The origin of life

Source: The origin of life

“In the end, what affects your life most deeply are things too simple to talk about.”

Ends Simple Simple Living

Author:Nell Blaine

“The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room.”

World Simple Rooms Simple Living

Author:Freya Stark

“Simplicity is the whole secret of well-being.”

Wells Whole Simple Secret Simplicity Well Being Simple Living

Book:The Snow Leopard

Source: The Snow Leopard

“One remarkable feature of the devotional masters is the incredible sense of uniform witness in the midst of such diverse personalities... and the necessity of Christian simplicity is one of their most consistent themes.”

Christian Simple Masters Personality Incredibles Simplicity Witness Features Theme Consistent Remarkable Midst Diverse Uniforms Simple Living Devotional

Book:Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline

Source: Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline

“I recommend to you holy simplicity.”

Simple Holy Simplicity Simple Living

Book:The Spiritual Maxims of Saint Francis de Sales

Source: The Spiritual Maxims of Saint Francis de Sales

“Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is known in simplicity, and its influence is direct.”

Spirit Lying Jesus Simple Known Influence Personality Direct Remains Historical Simplicity Stranger Our Time Concrete Simple Living

Book:The Quest of the Historical Jesus

Source: The Quest of the Historical Jesus

“If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.”

Ifs Simple Wise Prosperity Dread Load Simple Living

Book:Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity

Source: Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity

“I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the labour of my fellow men. I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force. I also consider that plain living is good for everybody, physically and mentally.”

Source: The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It

“A simple life is its own reward.”

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Book:The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

“Living simply means concentrating on what's important in light of eternity. And not taking the rest of life too seriously.”

Mean Important Light Simple Eternity What's Important Concentrating Simple Living Rest Of Life

Book:Simplify Your Hectic Life

Source: Simplify Your Hectic Life

“Who lives content with little possesses everything.”

Littles Simple Simple Living

Author:Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

“Blessed are the simple, for they shall have much peace.”

Simple Blessed Simple Living

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“The simplicity that all this presupposes is not easy to attain. I find that my life constantly threatens to become complex and divisive. A life of prayer is basically a very simple life. This simplicity, however, is the result of asceticism and effort: it is not a spontaneous simplicity.”

Easy Prayer Simple Results Effort Complexes Simplicity Spontaneous Simple Life Simple Living Asceticism

Author:Thomas Merton

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

Trying Humans Whole Simple Accepting Limits Being Human Simple Living Partiality

Book:The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

“We must redefine the American Dream before we rebuild the infrastructure on which it is based.”

Dream Simple American Dream Infrastructure Simple Living

Author:Paolo Soleri

“To dig our heels in and say no to a present madness is a good thing, but to walk a new path and say yes is a better thing.”

Simple Walks Path Madness Good Things Heels Simple Living New Paths

Author:Jim Wallis

“There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.”

Ifs Way Doe Simple Obligation Productive Progressive Efficient Simple Living Busier

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Poverty is mean and degrading to the human spirit, whereas a life of conscious simplicity can have both a beauty and a functional integrity that elevates the human spirit.”

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Book:Voluntary Simplicity Second Revised Edition: Toward a Way of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich

Source: Voluntary Simplicity Second Revised Edition: Toward a Way of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich

“In a world where nearly one billion people live near the edge of physical survival the relevance of intentional simplicity by the more affluent people of the world cannot be over estimated.”

People World Simple Survival Simplicity Edges Billions Relevance Simple Living Affluent

Author:Duane Elgin

“To be contemplative we must remove the clutter from our lives, surround ourselves with beauty, and consciously, relentlessly, persistently, give clutter away until the tiny world for which we ourselves are responsible begins to reflect the raw beauty that is God.”

World Giving Simple Our Lives Responsible Tiny Remove Surround Clutter Simple Living Contemplative

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“Design the life you want to live.”

“Do few things but do them well, simple joys are holy.”

Wells Joy Simple Holy Simplicity Simple Living Simple Joys

Author:Francis of Assisi

“Simplicity is an enduring habit within a soul that has grown impervious to evil thoughts.”

Soul Evil Simple Habit Endure Simplicity Simple Living Evil Thoughts Impervious

Book:John Climacus (CWS)

Source: John Climacus (CWS)

“Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyous words in the language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying.”

“Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

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

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Book:Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb

Source: Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb

“Best things in life aren't things.”

“It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”

“You can never get enough of 'Jeopardy.'”

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Author:Kirsten Dunst

“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”

“A spiritual retreat is medicine for soul starvation. Through silence, solitary practice, and simple living, we begin to fill the empty reservoir. This lifts the veils, dissolves the masks, and creates space within for the feelings of forgiveness, compassion, and loving kindness that are so often blocked.”

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