Simple Living Quotes - Page 7

• To dig our heels in and say no to a present madness is a good thing, but to walk a new path and say yes is a better thing.

  Jim Wallis

  Simple, Path, Madness

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• There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Simple, Doe, Way

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• Poverty is mean and degrading to the human spirit, whereas a life of conscious simplicity can have both a beauty and a functional integrity that elevates the human spirit.

  Duane Elgin

  Integrity, Mean, Simple

  Duane Elgin (2010). “Voluntary Simplicity Second Revised Edition: Toward a Way of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• In a world where nearly one billion people live near the edge of physical survival the relevance of intentional simplicity by the more affluent people of the world cannot be over estimated.

  Duane Elgin

  Simple, People, Simplicity

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• To be contemplative we must remove the clutter from our lives, surround ourselves with beauty, and consciously, relentlessly, persistently, give clutter away until the tiny world for which we ourselves are responsible begins to reflect the raw beauty that is God.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Simple, Giving, World

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• Do few things but do them well, simple joys are holy.

  Francis of Assisi

  Simple, Simplicity, Joy

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• Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.

  Ann Douglas

  Home, Environmental, Invention

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• If it hasn't already done so, the church... must recognize that it lives in a pagan society; it must seek for values and norms not shared by society. In short, it will either recover the Christian doctrine of nonconformity or cease to have any authentic Christian voice.

  Doris Janzen Longacre

  Christian, Simple, Voice

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• Medical experts now estimate that 80 percent of diseases are directly linked to frantic living.

  Doris Janzen Longacre

  Simple, Experts, Disease

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• Five Life Standards of Voluntary Simplicity
  Do Justice
  Learn from the World Community
  Nurture People
  Cherish the Natural Order
  Non-Conform Freely.

  Doris Janzen Longacre

  Simple, Order, Justice

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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.

  David Shi

  Simple, Would Be, Purpose

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

  David Shi

  Simple, Addiction, Inner Peace

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• Too many commercials. Too many lies. Too many celebrities. I don't recognize. Too many brand names. Too many magazines. I got so much sensation, I can't feel a thing. Simple. Living. Got to get to simple - living. Simple living. Simple... simply living.

  Fred Small

  Lying, Simple, Light

  "Environmental Songs". Interview with Steve Curwood, www.planetpatriot.net. April 18, 1997.

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• Real wisdom is simple. Living life rightly does not have to be a complicated challenge.

  Jim Rohn

  Real, Live Life, Simple

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• There is no way to re-enchant our lives in a disenchanted culture except by becoming renegades from that culture and planting the seeds for a new one.

  Thomas Moore

  Environmental, Becoming, Culture

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• People know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence.

  Abdul Sattar Edhi

  Hard Work, Simple, People

  Source: www.irinnews.org

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• Now and then, living more with less means paying more money. It may mean buying better quality - leaving behind repetitive purchases of discount junk for one expensive, well-made, thoughtfully designed tool that will last.

  Doris Janzen Longacre

  Mean, Simple, Leaving

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• About cars: They can list with faithful accuracy each model they acquired through the years, how much they paid for each one, its main faults, and why they traded it in - but they couldn't list as many close friends.

  Doris Janzen Longacre

  Simple, Years, Car

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• Our present stress on growth and productivity is, I believe, intimately related to the decline in rootedness. Faced with loneliness and vulnerability that come with deprivation of a securely encompassing community, we have sought to quell the vulnerability through our possessions.

  Paul L Wachtel

  Loneliness, Stress, Believe

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• Any 'Christians' who take for themselves any more than the plain necessaries of life, live in an open habitual denial of the Lord. They have gained riches and hell-fire.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Simple, Fire

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• I wish I were either rich enough or poor enough to do a lot of things that are impossible in my present comfortable circumstances.

  Don Herold

  Inspirational, Simple, Wish

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• Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the kind of world we want to live in.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Motivational, World, Want

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• Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than being... and consumerism is hardly the sin of the rich. The poor, driven by discontent and envy, may be as consumed by what they do not have as the rich are consumed by what they do have. The question is not, certainly not most importantly, a question about economics. It is first and foremost a cultural and moral problem requiring a cultural and moral remedy.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Simple, Envy, May

  "Doing Well and Doing Good: The Challenge to the Christian Capitalist". Book by Richard John Neuhaus, 1992.

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• There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Peace, Ubuntu, Long

  "The Medium is the Massage : An Inventory of Effects". Book by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, 1967.

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• In the end, what affects your life most deeply are things too simple to talk about.

  Nell Blaine

  Simple, Ends

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