37 Quotes by Leo Babauta

The point of simple living, for me has got to be: A soft place to land A wide margin of error Room to breathe Lots of places to find baseline happiness in each and every day.

Knowing thousands of recipes doesn’t feed you, unless you start cooking.

Pause. Breathe. Let all of that fade.

Create your own source of built-in happiness. Walk around as a whole, happy person, needing nothing. Then come from this place of wholeness, of self-reliance and independence, and love others. Not because you want them to love you back, not because you want to be needed, but because loving them is an amazing thing to do.

Happiness isn’t in the future, it’s not somewhere else. It’s available right inside us, right now, all the time.

Realize that failure isn’t a reason to judge yourself.

Failure is simply an indicator that something in our method needs to be changed.

Doing a huge number of things doesn’t mean you’re getting anything meaningful done.

Keep it simple, and focus on what you have to do right now, not on playing with your system or your tools.