Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need. Barbara Kingsolver
Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity. Thor Heyerdahl
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Henry David Thoreau
It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about? Henry David Thoreau
Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started. Leo Babauta
Simplicity and harmony are the ultimate conditions to be attained in all things. Horace Fletcher
Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple. Edward de Bono
Every solution to every problem is simple. It’s the distance between the two where the mystery lies. Derek Landy
Everything is both simpler than we can imagine, and more complicated that we can conceive. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter. Harold Kushner
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
Truthfully, though, most organizing is nothing more than well-planned hoarding. Joshua Fields Millburn (The Minimalists)
My task is to simplify and then go deeper, making a commitment to what remains. That’s what I’ve been after. To care and polish what remains till it glows and comes alive from loving care. Sue Bender
The highest excellence is like water. The excellence of water appears in its benefiting all things, and in its occupying, without striving, the low place which all men dislike. Lao Tzu
Simplicity is the only thing that sufficiently reorients our lives so that possessions can be genuinely enjoyed without destroying us. Richard Foster
The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple. Psalm 119:130
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. Hosea Ballou
Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky
