Simple Living Quotes - Page 5

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

  Duane Elgin

  Moving, Simple, Simplicity

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

  Freya Stark

  Simple, World, Rooms

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• Simplicity is the whole secret of well-being.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Simple, Simplicity, Secret

  Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.135, Penguin

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• 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.

  Richard J. Foster

  Christian, Simple, Simplicity

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• 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.

  David A. Cooper

  Spiritual, Kindness, Simple

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• Time with yourself, with your family, and with your God may prove to be the ultimate saving.

  Doris Janzen Longacre

  Simple, Saving, May

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

  John Climacus

  Simple, Evil, Simplicity

  Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.215, Paulist Press

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

  Wendell Berry

  Simple, Trying, Limits

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.292, Counterpoint

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• 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.

  Thomas Merton

  Prayer, Simple, Simplicity

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

  Thomas a Kempis

  Blessed, Simple

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• Who lives content with little possesses everything.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Simple, Littles

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

  Annie Chapman

  Mean, Simple, Light

  Annie Chapman (2005). “Simplify Your Hectic Life”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• I recommend to you holy simplicity.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Simple, Simplicity, Holy

  Saint Francis de Sales, Aeterna Press (2015). “The Spiritual Maxims of Saint Francis de Sales”, Aeterna Press

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• 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.

  Sharif Abdullah

  Simple, Ideas, Luxury

  Sharif M. Abdullah (1999). “Creating a World That Works for All”, p.209, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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

  Robert Gilman

  Simple, Three, Harmony

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• We need not want what we are the middle of.

  James Bertolino

  Simple, Needs, Want

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• Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency.

  Epicurus

  Freedom, Self, Liberty

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• Things that don't get better, get worse.

  Ellen Stern

  Simple, Get Better

  Ellen Sue Stern (1988). “The Indispensable Woman”, Bantam

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• The worst way to improve the world is to condemn it.

  Philip James Bailey

  Simple, World, Way

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.74

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• We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

  Agatha Christie

  Simple, Achievement, Great Inventions

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• If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick.

  John Steinbeck

  Simple, Giving, Sick

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• He who knows he has enough is rich.

  Laozi

  Money, Environmental, Rich

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else

  Bernadette Devlin

  Inspirational, Women, Hippie

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• Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God is the god of his idolatry.

  William Bernard Ullathorne

  Simple, Men, Honor

  "Patience and Humility: A Handbook for Christians".

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• Anyone who isn't confused doesn't understand what's going on.

  Dimitri Simes

  Confused, Simple

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