#simplicity

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Curb your desires, don't set your heart on so many things and you will get what you need.

Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

He uses moderate exertion in all things. If he appears foolish or ignorant, he does not care.

The body is to everyone the measure of the possessions proper for it, just as the foot is of the shoe.

Water gathers in the low places that people disdain. Therefore it is like the Tao.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous.

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

When they are transformed, and desire raises its head, I quell it with the nameless simplicity.

Nameless simplicity brings absence of desire. The absence of desire leads to stillness. And the world reaches peace of its own accord.

Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.

He who has nothing to hide does not need to speak.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Money is a measure of wealth, but not wealth itself. You cannot eat dollar bills or drink gold.

Real wealth consists in having clean water, fresh air, healthy food, and good friends with whom to share them.

We approach nearest to the gods when we have the fewest wants.

Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty.

The secret of human freedom lies not in expanding our desires, but in learning to need less.

Other men live to eat, while I eat only to live.

To be self-controlled, patient, and content with simple things is the true nobility of the philosopher.

The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.

It implies withdrawal from some things in order to deal effectively with others.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

The highest truth is always the simplest.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.