The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn’t simple.             —Doris Janzen Longacre

The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.

 —John Kabat Zinn

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring — these are some of the rewards of the simple life.                                  —John Burroughs

Plurality should not be assumed without necessity.

—Ockham’s Razor

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

—Albert Einstein

Our life is frittered away by detail… Simplify, simplify, simplify! … Simplicity of life and elevation of purpose.

—Henry David Thoreau

To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.                                      —Charles Dudley Warner

The best things in life are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life’s plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.

 —Robert Louis Stevenson

Live simply that others might simply live.

—Elizabeth Seaton

Maybe a person’s time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.                                        

  —Frank A. Clark

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.       

—Leonardo DaVinci

Who is rich? He who rejoices in his portion.

—The Talmud

How many things are there which I do not want?

—Socrates

We don’t need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it.                                                               —Donald Horban

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.                              —Hans Hofmann

Material blessings when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.                                —Philip Wylie

If you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.                                                                      —Annie Dillard