Live Simply Quotes - Page 2

• Just as we need the courage to be happy, we also need the courage to live simply.

  Pope Francis

  Needs

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.96, SPCK

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• Live simply, so that all may simply live.

  Elizabeth Ann Seton

  May

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• You must have some money if you are going to live simply. It need not be much, but you must have some.

  Stevie Smith

  Needs, Ifs

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• Whatever way you put it, I am here only because my world is here. When I took my first breath, my world was born with me. When I die, my world dies with me. In other words, I wasn't born into a world that was already here before me, nor do I live simply as one individual among millions of other individuals, nor do I leave everything behind to live on after me. People live thinking of themselves as members of a group or society. However, this isn't really true. Actually, I bring my own world into existence, live it out, and take it with me when I die.

  Kosho Uchiyama

  Thinking, People, Groups

  Kōshō Uchiyama (1993). “Opening the Hand of Thought: Approach to Zen”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Home, Turtles, Underwater

  Kurt Vonnegut (2010). “Slapstick or Lonesome No More”, p.7, Random House

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• To know how other people behave takes intelligence, but to know myself takes wisdom. To manage other people's lives takes strength, but to manage my own life takes true power. If I am content with what I have, I can live simply and enjoy both prosperity and free time. If my goals are clear, I can achieve them without fuss. If I am at peace with myself, I will not spend my life force in conflicts. If I have learned to let go, I do not need to fear dying.

  John Heider

  Letting Go, Peace, Learning

  John HEider (2015). “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age”, p.33, Green Dragon Books

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• Simplicity means to feel such a sense of kinship with others that we choose to live simply so that others may simply live.

  Duane Elgin

  Mean, Simplicity, May

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• The organized churches must become schools of spiritual discipline where Christians are taught how to own without treasuring (Matt. 6:21); how to possess without, like the "rich young ruler," being possessed (Mark 10:22); how to live simply, even frugally, though controlling great wealth and power.

  Dallas Willard

  Christian, Spiritual, School

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• Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Mind, Clarity, Moments

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• To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic

  Anton Chekhov

  Mean, Amusing, Idiotic

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• I consciously started to live simply when I started to become conscious.

  Duane Elgin

  Simple, Conscious, Simple Living

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• I’ve stripped my life down,” he told me. “I don’t need much. I have all the company I want to keep right in here.” He shot himself in the head with his fingers. “People don’t understand about the need to live simply. They make appointments all day. They even schedule their own deaths. The first time they’ll have freedom to really be themselves is when they no longer exist. But up here, there’s nothing but me and the sky. A million billion stars.

  Holly Black

  Stars, Sky, People

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• What steps can I take to
  reduce the clutter so that I may live simply and joyously?

  Douglas Bloch

  May, Steps, Introspection

  Douglas Bloch (1992). “I Am With You Always: A Treasury of Inspirational Quotations, Poems and Prayers”, p.86, BookBaby

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• You see, we need instruction on how to possess money without being possessed by money. We need help to learn how to own things without treasuring them. We need the discipline that will allow us to live simply while managing great wealth and power.

  Richard J. Foster

  Discipline, Needs, Helping

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

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• I bring my attention to my hands on the steering wheel and notice how the chatter in my mind begins to fall away as my breathing slows. I'm awake and alive, simply driving the car going where I need to go, on time and in time. A still point of the turning world. With that awareness, I bring my attention into my body, and the body is the doorway to the timeless, because the body is always where we are and always in the present moment.

  Roger Housden

  Fall, Breathing, Hands

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the evenings, and live simply, and eat sparingly, and recover the use of our legs, and get up early enough to see the sun rise.

  Jan Struther

  War, Up Early, Civilization

  "Mrs. Miniver".

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• We, who have so much, must do more to help those in need. And most of all, we must live simply, so that others may simply live.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Simplicity, Needs, May

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• In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely; as the pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Sports

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.46, Cosimo, Inc.

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• But I deal with this by meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Humanity, Understanding, Battle

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• Live simply and without thinking too much, like a child with his father. Faith without too much thinking works wonders. The logical mind hinders the Grace of God and miracles. Practice patience without judging with the logical mind.

  Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

  Children, Father, Thinking

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• We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.

  John Stott

  Money, Light, Enemy

  John R. W. Stott (1999). “Our Social and Sexual Revolution: Major Issues for a New Century”, Baker Publishing Group

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• How to live simply? It is a big question. Let the answer come into the empty space that one must create in oneself. Trying to live simply is not the way - we don't know how. Trying to fix it is filling the space with activity, when what is needed is to empty oneself and allow an answer to appear.

  Michel de Salzmann

  Space, Trying, Answers

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• People this stupid shouldn't be allowed to live.

  Jason Alexander

  Stupid, People

  "Fiсtional character: George Costanza". "Seinfeld", www.abc.net.au. 1989-1998.

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• When the Forbidden Fruit was handed to Adam and Eve, they were allowed the moral choice to accept or decline. I know people who have refused to feast on the money tree. They live simply, within their means, and seem far more content than those who are trying to horde their wealth while clinging to the ladder of 'success,' terrified to let go. That isn't real living. The Puritans rightly saw that as covetousness.

  Cal Thomas

  Letting Go, Real, Mean

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• We are finally living in Plato's cave, if we consider how those who were imprisoned within the cave - who could do nothing but watch those shadows passing on the back wall - were convinced that those shadows were their one and only reality. I see a profound similarity to all this in the epoch we're now living in. We no longer live simply through images: we live through images that don't even exist, which are the result not of physical projection but of pure virtuality.

  Jose Saramago

  Wall, Plato, Reality

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