As Americans we are plagued by unrelenting consumerism and restrained by the economy. Some days it seems that we need to return to a simpler time by trading in our “possession obsession” for our sanity. Each week I will post quotes from a different virtue. The last virtue I posted was magnanimity This week’s virtue is simplicity.
10 Virtue Wednesday Quotes: Simplicity
“Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury – to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.”― Albert Einstein
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”― Confucius
“Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”― Isaac Newton
“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.”― Henry David Thoreau
“The greatest ideas are the simplest.”― William Golding
“Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.”― Laozi
“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”― Leo Tolstoy
“The more simple we are, the more complete we become.”― August Rodin
“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”― Lin Yutang
“Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.”―Ralph Waldo Emerson
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