Quotes about Simplicity

What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us.

Oh, Anne, things are so mixed-up in real life. They aren't clear-cut and trimmed off, as they are in novels.

Well, I don't want to be anyone but myself, even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life," declared Anne. "I'm quite content to be Anne of Green Gables, with my string of pearl beads. I know Matthew gave me as much love with them as ever went with Madame the Pink Lady's jewels.

Anne had never seen Mrs. Merrill before and never saw her again, but she always remembered her as a woman who had attained to the ultimate secret of life. You were never poor as long as you had something to love.

Better a dinner of herbs where your chums are than a stalled ox in a lonely boardinghouse.

Isn't that a view worth looking at? Nice and far from the marketplace, ain't it? No buying and selling and getting gain. You don't have to pay anything- all that sea and sky free- 'without money and without price.

Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

Short is the way from need to greed.

Modern man fell into the trap of believing that everything can be explained, that reality is a simple affair which has only to be organized in order to be mastered.

I am nothing, truth is everything.

Facts speak plainer than words