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Simplicity
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
--Confucius
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.
--Edwin Way Teale
"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."
--Vernon Howard
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
--Leonardo da Vinci
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
--Albert Einstein
"I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want."
--Philippians 4:12
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
--Hans Hofmann
"Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
--Albert Einstein
"To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life."
--John Burroughs
"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."
--Lin Yutang
"The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life."
--Robert Louis Stevenson
"Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful."
--William Morris
"Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have even lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor."
--Henry David Thoreau
"How many things are there which I do not want."
--Socrates
"Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you."
--Hebrews 13:5
"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."
--Lao Tzu
Happiness and Joy
"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence"
--Aristotle
"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
--Abraham Lincoln
"Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly."
--Leo Tolstoy
"If you want to be happy, be."
--Leo Tolstoy
"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it."
--Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections."
--Anonymous
"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."
--Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed."
--Frank McKinney
"The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be"
--Marcel Pagnol quotes
"Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination."
--Roy M. Goodman
"Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others' happiness."
--The Dalai Lama
"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want."
--Margaret Young
"Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them."
--Anonymous
"Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."
--Mother Teresa of Calcutta
"Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them."
--Count Leo Tolstoy
"Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
--Norman MacEwan
"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
--Buddha
"For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
--Author Unknown
"Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you."
--James Freeman Clarke
"Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?"
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"No man is happy who does not think himself so."
--Publilius Syrus
"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy."
--Robert Anthony
"It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about."
--Dale Carnegie
"Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."
--Helen Keller
"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go."
--Martha Washington
"Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself"
--Mahatma Gandhi
"If we are not happy and joyous at this season, for what other season shall we wait and for what other time shall we look?"
--Abdul-Baha
"Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it." ---Franois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
--Helen Keller
"Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day."
--Henri Nouwen
"To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy...is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
--Nathaniel Hawthorne
"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have."
--Frederick Keonig
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
--Mark Twain
"Happiness is not in our circumstance but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are."
--John B. Sheerin
Frugality
“Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.”
--Benjamin Franklin
--Benjamin Franklin
“Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.”
--Benjamin Franklin
--Benjamin Franklin
"Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?”
--Cicero
--Cicero
“Thrift is not an affair of the pocket, but an affair of character.”
--S.W. Straus
--S.W. Straus
“He who does not economize will have to agonize.”
--Confucius
--Confucius
Misc
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
— Albert Einstein
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