Quotes about Simplicity

Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.

In choosing a bare bones existence, we are enriched, and can redefine success as an internal process rather than an outward display of wealth and power.

In many ways, airplane travel mimics the asceticism of the early desert monks: a limited and uncomfortable physical space in which to sit, limited availability of water, food that is less than appetizing, small chance of getting much sleep.

I have found therapy to be of limited usefulness, constrained in ways that religion is not, because it consistently falls short of mystery, by which I mean a profound simplicity that allows for paradox and poetry. In therapy I am likely to be searching for explanations, causes, and definitions, information that will help me change my behavior in healthful ways. But wisdom is the goal of spiritual seeking, and it is religion's true home.

Many things — such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly — are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

Why did they have so many clothes, anyway? Life was so much easier in India, where a boy needed only a pair of shorts.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.

Animals are such agreeable friends?they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

But I don't want more things than I need, either.

Because I have time to spare, and for the first time in my life nobody expects anything of me. I don't have to prove anything. I'm not rushing anywhere; each day is a gift I enjoy to the fullest.

The wise man desires nothing; he does not judge, he makes no plans, he keeps his mind open and his