- The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little. ~Jon Kabat-Zinn
- Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction. ~E.F. Schumacher
- Maybe a person’s time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food. ~Frank A. Clark
- I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them. ~Sherwood Anderson
- Again and again I congratulate myself on my so-called poverty. I was almost disappointed yesterday to find thirty dollars in my desk which I did not know that I possessed, though now I should be sorry to lose it. ~Henry David Thoreau
- You can live without anything you weren’t born with, and you can make it through on even half of that. ~Gloria Naylor
- The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn’t simple. ~Doris Janzen Longacre
- Anywhere is walking distance if you have the time. ~Steven Wright
- Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than submit to the desolation of an empty abundance. ~Michael Harrington
- Don’t get really good at what you don’t want to do. ~Dr. Mark Albion
- Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in. ~Emma Goldman
Do you have a favorite quote on simple living?