I have removed a lot of negative influence in my life and try to surround myself with positive people. I have a much more simple life than the old days.
People just - they don't really know me. They see me on "The Simple Life," they think that's really who I am.
When I was a student I did a report on Madagascar, and ever since then it was my biggest dream to go there. Three years ago I went, and it was so different. We live in this high tech world with Facebook, Twitter, and mobile phones, and there you land and you have nothing. Yet the people live and get by every day walking in the roads, living this super simple life, and they're still happy. It is an experience that keeps you humble, puts things in perspective.
When you understand that what most people really, really want is simply to feel good about themselves, and when you realize that with just a few well-chosen words you can help virtually anyone on the planet instantly achieve this, you begin to realize just how simple life is, how powerful you are, and that love is the key.
What drives me is truly inspiring people to realize they can live more creative and simple lives.
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.
I consider that sex is part of life as much as architecture, fashion, art or food. Sex is life, simple. And I refuse to consider that sex should be hidden. When you hide sex, problems start because sex becomes dangerous.
Anything pursued and attained as a supposed compensation for the lack of self-love is ineffective and can get downright ugly.
Wouldn't it be nice if everything balanced in the world? If right came out on top and wrong was punished. It sure would be simple.
David Shi (historian of the simple life) describes the common denominator among the various approaches to simpler living as the understanding that the making of money and the accumulation of things should not smother the purity of the soul, the life of the mind, the cohesion of the family, or the good of the society.
No man with a complex life can be happy! The simple secret of the happiness is simple life!
Regular and simple life is the life of God; the chaotic and the complex one is the Devil's!
I drive old cars, all my Patagonia clothes are years and years old, I hardly have anything new. I try to lead a very simple life. I am not a consumer of anything. And I much prefer sleeping on somebody's floor than in a motel room.
I don't have an image of myself, when I'm walking down the street, like I'm a rock star or something. I'm a human being, I'm a friend, I'm a mom, I'm a writer, and I'm an artist. I do play electric guitar and all of that but in the end I'm just a person. I really don't live like a rock star, economically or socially. I still live a pretty simple life beside the traveling aspect of it.
Education must be orientated towards the attainment of character for leading clean simple lives.
How simple life is. We buy a fish. We are fed. We sit close to each other, we talk and then we go to bed.
It's important to keep life simple, and if I'm traveling, I only can do a couple of things, and those are the things that I'm meant to be doing.
I don't want a simple life. I want an extraordinary continuous adventure. That's the problem. I just want more. I want it all & everything in-between.
Don't lecture someone on their choices when you don't know their story.
Some people wait for a miracle to start living their lives happily. Others, use that time and create the miracle themselves.
Everyone is in love with the impossible; the impossible gives you neverending dreams and neverending hopes.
Being vegan truly is the secret to my life's joy and peace. I feel physically and spiritually better than I could have ever imagined knowing that I am doing everything I can to reduce animal suffering with simple lifestyle choices like being vegan, never wearing any products made from animals (like wool and leather), and buying only from companies that NEVER test their products or ingredients on animals.
Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyous words in the language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying.
Give me a Sunday morning, that's full of grace, A simple life and I'll be okay, here in small town U.S.A.
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