Simple Living Quotes - Page 5

• Blessed are the simple, for they shall have much peace.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Blessed, Simple

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• The simplicity that all this presupposes is not easy to attain. I find that my life constantly threatens to become complex and divisive. A life of prayer is basically a very simple life. This simplicity, however, is the result of asceticism and effort: it is not a spontaneous simplicity.

  Thomas Merton

  Prayer, Simple, Simplicity

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• We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods.

  Wendell Berry

  Simple, Trying, Limits

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.292, Counterpoint

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• Simplicity is an enduring habit within a soul that has grown impervious to evil thoughts.

  John Climacus

  Simple, Evil, Simplicity

  Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.215, Paulist Press

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• Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God is the god of his idolatry.

  William Bernard Ullathorne

  Simple, Men, Honor

  "Patience and Humility: A Handbook for Christians".

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• If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick.

  John Steinbeck

  Simple, Giving, Sick

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• We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

  Agatha Christie

  Simple, Achievement, Great Inventions

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• We need not want what we are the middle of.

  James Bertolino

  Simple, Needs, Want

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• Things that don't get better, get worse.

  Ellen Stern

  Simple, Get Better

  Ellen Sue Stern (1988). “The Indispensable Woman”, Bantam

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• Anyone who isn't confused doesn't understand what's going on.

  Dimitri Simes

  Confused, Simple

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• The worst way to improve the world is to condemn it.

  Philip James Bailey

  Simple, World, Way

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.74

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• A spiritual retreat is medicine for soul starvation. Through silence, solitary practice, and simple living, we begin to fill the empty reservoir. This lifts the veils, dissolves the masks, and creates space within for the feelings of forgiveness, compassion, and loving kindness that are so often blocked.

  David A. Cooper

  Spiritual, Kindness, Simple

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• Living simply means concentrating on what's important in light of eternity. And not taking the rest of life too seriously.

  Annie Chapman

  Mean, Simple, Light

  Annie Chapman (2005). “Simplify Your Hectic Life”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• Time with yourself, with your family, and with your God may prove to be the ultimate saving.

  Doris Janzen Longacre

  Simple, Saving, May

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• To live without that enchantment of beauty is to interpret frugality and simple living with a puritan literalism

  John Lane

  Simple, Enchantment, Puritan

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• Embody the three harmonies: within; with others; and with nature.

  Robert Gilman

  Simple, Three, Harmony

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• We live in a society either scarred by scarcity or spoiled by luxury. We have no idea how much is enough. We don't know when to quit.

  Sharif Abdullah

  Simple, Ideas, Luxury

  Sharif M. Abdullah (1999). “Creating a World That Works for All”, p.209, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Voluntary simplicity has more to do with the state of mind than a person's physical surroundings and possessions.

  Duane Elgin

  Simple, Simplicity, Mind

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• As my spiritual growth expanded and developed, voluntary simplicity was a natural outgrowth. I came to realize the cost of material accumulation was too high and offered fewer and fewer real rewards, psychological and spiritual.

  Duane Elgin

  Spiritual, Real, Simple

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• It seems to me that inner growth is the whole moving force behind voluntary simplicity.

  Duane Elgin

  Moving, Simple, Simplicity

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

  Duane Elgin

  Simple, Live Simply, Conscious

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• To me, voluntary simplicity means integration and awareness in my life.

  Duane Elgin

  Mean, Simple, Simplicity

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• We will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Giving Up, Simple, Taking Things For Granted

  John Desmond Bernal (1967). “The origin of life”

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• Who lives content with little possesses everything.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Simple, Littles

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• The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room.

  Freya Stark

  Simple, World, Rooms

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