Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.

I live a very simple life.

A simple life is its own reward.

The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.

The time will come when mankind will begin to get away from the consciousness of needing so many material things. More security and peace will be found in the simple life.

Living simply makes loving simple.

I want to keep my life as unfettered as possible. So maybe I'll just pretend to get rare books from my catalogue, and not really get them.

We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.

The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

I'm barely at home enough to enjoy the simple lifestyle that I want to live.

I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.

I actually live very, very simply.

I don't need that much to live - we don't need that much to have a wonderful life. I learned that from animals.

There's no great desire to own lots of stuff - and I don't. You can only live in one house and drive one car.

We don't need an abundance of things.

You don't really need much. I try to live my life with that sort of minimalist mentality.

In my humble opinion, having tons of products and furniture and magazines and clothes is not luxurious - living minimally is.

I know I've been lucky, but I'm not very materialistic - I don't believe in collecting many unnecessary things and I'm not into girlie shopping.

I'm still just a kid learning about minimalism, and he's a master of it. It's just really such a blessing, to be able to work with him. I want to say that after working with Rick, it humbled me to realize why I hadn't - even though I produced "Watch the Throne"; even though I produced "Dark Fantasy" - why I hadn't won Album of the Year yet.

Life is simple unless we find a way to make it complicated.

Someone who goes with a half a loaf of bread to a small place that fits like a nest around him, someone who wants no more, who is not himself longed for by anyone else. He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.

If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in the charkha, I do so because I know that without an intelligent return to simplicity, there is no escape from our d.

The most powerful life is the most simple life. The most powerful life is the life that knows where it's going, that knows where the source of strength is; it is the life that stays free of clutter and happenstance and hurriedness.

Reducing your life down to three pairs of jeans, two skirts, a couple of shirts, and a few pairs of shoes was so nice for me. I really loved living in this tiny room where I didnt have space for anything. It sounds really lame, but it made me feel a lot more free, because I just didnt have as many choices.