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Let us cultivate our garden.

— Voltaire

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

— Seneca

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Dalai Lama

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

— Epicurus

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

— Confucius

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Lao Tzu

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

— Epictetus

It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

— Bertrand Russell

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

— Rabindranath Tagore

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

— William Wordsworth

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Memories mean more to me than dresses.

— Anne Frank

It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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

— Virginia Woolf

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Epicurus

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

— Walt Whitman

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