David Shi Quotes

• It is our dreams that energize us more than our abilities.

  David Shi

  Dream, Ability, Our Dreams

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

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  Simple, Addiction, Inner Peace

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• Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material moderation, it can be practiced in cities and suburbs, townhouses and condominiums. It requires neither a log cabin nor a hairshirt but a deliberate ordering of priorities so as to distinguish between the necessary and superfluous, useful and wasteful, beautiful and vulgar.

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  Beautiful, Self, Essence

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• Happiness is not synonymous with pleasure. It is, instead, a deeper emotion that originates from within. . . . Happiness results from a sense of mental and moral contentment with who we are, what we value, and how we invest our time and resources for purposes beyond ourselves.

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  Contentment, Purpose, Who We Are

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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.

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  Simple, Would Be, Purpose

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