Simplicity Movement Quotes

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.

Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.

The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living.

My worry is that the world is becoming more chaotic every day. My excitement is that more people paying attention to 'Less but better' could help solve our growing problems.

To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all our lives be simplified merely, like an algebraic formula? Or not, rather, that I may make use of the ground I have cleared to live more worthily and profitably?

Living a simpler life has turned out to be one of the keys to being more awake and healthy.

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.

Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to a simpler way allows us to regain our dignity, puts us in touch with the land, and makes us value human contact again.

People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.

The spiritual discipline of simplicity is not a lost dream, but a recurrent version throughout history. It can be recaptured today. It must be.

One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.

The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

Our clothing, our food, our household furnishings - all could be much simpler than they now are and at the same time be better looking

Simplicity, very rare in our age.

Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.