“I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.”
-Henry David Thoreau
“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.”
-Will Rogers
“It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.”
-Bertrand Russell
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
-Leonardo da Vinci
“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”
-Socrates
“We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say let your affairs be as one, two, three and to a hundred or a thousand. We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.”
-Henry David Thoreau
“I’d like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.”
-David Foster Wallace
“I’m an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.”
-Raymond Chandler
[Photograph is an office I shot in Hollywood, CA]
All great…Chandler is over the top!
Great quotes! The Wallace quote reminds me of the saying, “I’d rather be here now.” How more simple can you get?
A couple I like: “I have everything, yet nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.” -Terence. “Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.” -James Byrnes. “It’s not your salary that makes you rich, it’s your spending habits.” -Charles Jaffe. “Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.” -Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Love the quotes! Thoreau was one of my first inspirations, but once I embarked on the simplicity path, I discovered many more. It is such a wonderful life. 🙂
Excellent quotes. I’m going to have to make some wallpapers out of these. Thanks!