Gary Snyder Quotes

I'm fine with just a simple life.

I really don't require a whole lot in life.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. You don't have to ditch your career, toss the iPhone, or join a commune to take part. Living 'Slow' just means doing everything at the right speed - quickly, slowly, or at whatever pace delivers the best results.

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

The way to healthy living is to shift from quantitative economic growth to quality of life, food, water and air - to shift from craving to contentment and from greed to gratitude

There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, and where less can be more.

Luxury to me is not about buying expensive things; it's about living in a way where you appreciate things.

Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness.

Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

It keeps you grounded, you lead a regular life and you appreciate things more.

For it is better to suffer a little want than to have too much.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure.

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

I don't think life is to be taken too seriously. Take it too seriously, and it'll getcha.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

When I look around, I begin to understand what Socrates meant when he said, 'How much there is in the world I do not want.'

To grow up under really simple circumstances, and to understand that certain things were ornamental... that made an impression on me as a child and is something I use.

I live a pretty simple life.