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Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.
Sep 15, 2025
There's a movement for simplifying your life: purchase less stuff, own a few things that are very high quality that last a long time, and that are multifunctional.
How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.
Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
In a way, simplifying your life for vagabonding is easier than it sounds. This is because travel by its very nature demands simplicity. If you don't believe this, just go home and try stuffing everything you own into a backpack. This will never work, because no matter how meagerly you live at home, you can't match the scaled-down minimalism that travel requires.
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.
The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.
If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, This is the best season of your life.
Live simply so that others may simply live.
The things you own end up owning you.
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
As you focus on simplifying your life, make sure that your approach to the process is a loving and accepting one. Know that you are doing all that you can do right now, and that is all anyone can do.
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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