Simple Living Quotes - Page 6

• 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.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Happiness, Spring, Heart

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• Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Teamwork, Men, Self

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.165, Vintage

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• Great ideas come into the world as gently as doves.

  Albert Camus

  Inspiring, Ideas, World

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

  Francis of Assisi

  Simple, Simplicity, Joy

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

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• 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.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Growing Up, Giving, Generosity

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• There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, and where less can be more.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Earth Day, Environmental, Needs

  Gaylord Nelson, Paul A. Wozniak, Susan M. Campbell (2002). “Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise”, p.175, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

  Max Lerner

  Civilization, Environmental, Cocoons

  Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

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• There is no way to re-enchant our lives in a disenchanted culture except by becoming renegades from that culture and planting the seeds for a new one.

  Thomas Moore

  Environmental, Becoming, Culture

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• Real wisdom is simple. Living life rightly does not have to be a complicated challenge.

  Jim Rohn

  Real, Live Life, Simple

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• Too many commercials. Too many lies. Too many celebrities. I don't recognize. Too many brand names. Too many magazines. I got so much sensation, I can't feel a thing. Simple. Living. Got to get to simple - living. Simple living. Simple... simply living.

  Fred Small

  Lying, Simple, Light

  "Environmental Songs". Interview with Steve Curwood, www.planetpatriot.net. April 18, 1997.

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• Liberating oneself from the addiction of consumerism and careerism promotes inner peace.

  David Shi

  Simple, Addiction, Inner Peace

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• As a myth of national purpose and as a program for individual conduct, the simple life has, in a sense, served as the nation's conscience, reminding Americans of what the founders had hoped they would be and thereby providing a vivifying counterpoint to the excesses of materialist individualism.

  David Shi

  Simple, Would Be, Purpose

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• People, the common people, can genuinely see what I'm doing. Moreover, people know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence. These are the four principles I adopted at the very beginning and continue to use until now. People see this and give me donations.

  Abdul Sattar Edhi

  Hard Work, Simple, People

  Source: www.irinnews.org

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• Five Life Standards of Voluntary Simplicity
  Do Justice
  Learn from the World Community
  Nurture People
  Cherish the Natural Order
  Non-Conform Freely.

  Doris Janzen Longacre

  Simple, Order, Justice

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• Medical experts now estimate that 80 percent of diseases are directly linked to frantic living.

  Doris Janzen Longacre

  Simple, Experts, Disease

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• If it hasn't already done so, the church... must recognize that it lives in a pagan society; it must seek for values and norms not shared by society. In short, it will either recover the Christian doctrine of nonconformity or cease to have any authentic Christian voice.

  Doris Janzen Longacre

  Christian, Simple, Voice

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• Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.

  Ann Douglas

  Home, Environmental, Invention

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• 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.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Simple, Giving, World

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• 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.

  Duane Elgin

  Simple, People, Simplicity

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• The new morality does not consist in saving but in expanding consumption.

  Simon N. Patten

  Simple, Doe, Saving

  Simon N. Patten (1968). “The New Basis of Civilization”, p.215, Harvard University Press

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

  Richard Louv

  Real, War, Simple

  Richard Louv (1998). “Web of Life: Weaving the Values That Sustain Us”, p.123, Conari Press

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• Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Simple, Realizing

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• Are you living just a little and calling that life?

  Annie Dillard

  Simple, Calling, Littles

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• Does the end justify the means? Or should it be, Do the ends justify the mean; do the extremes justify moderation?

  Daniel N. Robinson

  Mean, Simple, Doe

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