Francois Fenelon Quotes

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.

From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.

Ultimately when I gave up the use of motorized vehicles, I walked everywhere, from town to town, across states and two continents. When I stopped talking, I mean literally I stopped speaking. I took a complete vow of silence.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

Simplicity. Simplicity. Simplicity. The three keys to a spiritual life.

I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.

Blessed are the simple, for they shall have much peace.

I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully while it goes by.

No benefit is more constant than simplicity; no happiness more constant than peace.

Enough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks. Why art thou disturbed? What is there new in this? What unsettles thee? Is it the form of the thing? Look at it. Or is it the matter? Look at it. But besides these there is nothing. Towards the gods, then, now become at last more simple and better. It is the same whether we examine these things for a hundred years or three.

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

I am totally unattached to material items.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.

If you can get your life down to one minute at a time, you don't miss anything. You have total abundance of information and material.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

A quiet mind cureth all.

I don't know what happened, but I lost the desire to acquire more things. It's very peaceful to have lost that desire.

I don't have a circus around me, and that's a choice. I like to be on Planet Earth as much as possible.

I'm ready to live in the present - not the past and not in the future - because in the present is where there's peace.

If you can't find peace inside, you'll never be at peace.

Never underestimate the power of sitting quietly.