You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, This is the best season of your life.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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.
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
My life is my message.
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
Best things in life aren't things.
A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.
One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in.
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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.
A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna
Excess and deficiency are equally at fault.
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