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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

— Epicurus

It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple.

— Dalai Lama

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

— Leo Tolstoy

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.

Thanksgiving is the holiday of peace, the celebration of work and the simple life.

He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing.

— Epicurus

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

— Albert Einstein

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

— Virginia Woolf

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

— Walt Whitman

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples.

— Dalai Lama

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Epictetus

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

— Lao Tzu

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

— Henry David Thoreau

Memories mean more to me than dresses.

— Anne Frank

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

— Seneca

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Let us cultivate our garden.

— Voltaire

Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye — it is very beautiful.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

— Confucius

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

— Marcus Aurelius

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