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Simple living17 quotes
Our life is frittered away by detail…. Simplify, simplify. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods. — Socrates · 240How many things I can do without! — Socrates · 399 BCWe must cultivate our garden. — Voltaire · 1759I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854All 17 quotes →Materialism4 quotes
Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods. — Socrates · 240How many things I can do without! — Socrates · 399 BCNo person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don’t have, and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have. — Seneca · 65Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury—to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind. — Albert Einstein · 1931How to live2 quotes
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. — William Morris · 1882Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing. — Jerome K. Jerome · 1889Agriculture1 quote
Happy the man who, far away from business, like the race of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by any interest to pay. — Horace · 30 BCAttachment (Buddhism)1 quote
Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods. — Socrates · 240Being present1 quote
I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street; the news of the boat. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1837Clutter1 quote
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. — William Morris · 1882Farming1 quote
Happy the man who, far away from business, like the race of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by any interest to pay. — Horace · 30 BCFreedom1 quote
The life of white men is slavery. They are prisoners in towns or farms. The life my people want is a life of freedom. I have seen nothing that a white man has, houses or railways or clothing or food, that is as good as the right to move in the open country, and live in our own fashion. — Sitting BullGardens1 quote
We must cultivate our garden. — Voltaire · 1759Interior design1 quote
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. — William Morris · 1882Introspection1 quote
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854Letting go1 quote
Seekers of the Way. In Buddhism no effort is necessary. All one has to do is to do nothing except to move his bowels, urinate, put on his clothing, eat his meals, and lie down if he is tired. The stupid will laugh at him, but the wise will understand. — Linji Yixuan · 886Life1 quote
Our life is frittered away by detail…. Simplify, simplify. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854Life lessons1 quote
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854Living well1 quote
Our life is frittered away by detail…. Simplify, simplify. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854Modern life1 quote
The life of white men is slavery. They are prisoners in towns or farms. The life my people want is a life of freedom. I have seen nothing that a white man has, houses or railways or clothing or food, that is as good as the right to move in the open country, and live in our own fashion. — Sitting BullNative American life1 quote
The life of white men is slavery. They are prisoners in towns or farms. The life my people want is a life of freedom. I have seen nothing that a white man has, houses or railways or clothing or food, that is as good as the right to move in the open country, and live in our own fashion. — Sitting BullPossessions1 quote
Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods. — Socrates · 240Purpose of life1 quote
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854Rural life1 quote
This was among my prayers: a piece of land not so very large, where a garden should be and a spring of ever-flowing water near the house, and a bit of woodland as well as these. — Horace · 30 BCSlowing down1 quote
Seekers of the Way. In Buddhism no effort is necessary. All one has to do is to do nothing except to move his bowels, urinate, put on his clothing, eat his meals, and lie down if he is tired. The stupid will laugh at him, but the wise will understand. — Linji Yixuan · 886Small town life1 quote
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife,
Their sober wishes never learned to stray;
Along the cool sequestered vale of life
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. — Thomas Gray · 1751Success1 quote
Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury—to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind. — Albert Einstein · 1931The little things1 quote
I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street; the news of the boat. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1837