Quotes and quiet thoughts on simplicity, simple living and living life well

Enjoying a quiet, simple evening by reading by candlelight
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Simple living can sometimes be complicated. Making choices to simplify still entails making choices and for many people the act of choosing is stressful. More of what? Less of what? Which is more important - A or B? Even the Amish find living simply complicated these days.

Sometimes it is helpful to glean wisdom from others and short quotes are a great way to refocus and or look at circumstances from another perspective. Here are five great quotes that will benefit anyone who is on the path to living more simply.

The feeling that "if nothing is happening, nothing is happening" is the prejudice of a superficial, dependent and hollow spirit, one that has succumbed to the age and can prove its own excellence only by the quality of pseudo-events it is constantly organizing, like a bee, to that end. Vaclav Habel

Fame and tranquility are two things that can't live under the same roof. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has. Harry Ward Beecher

Beside the noble art of getting things done, there a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of the nonessentials. Lin Yutang

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. Carol Bard

When living simply, focus on simply living and making the best choices for both today and tomorrow.

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