87 Quotes About Simple-living

If you wish to find a needle in a haystack, light a match.

If you have time, a lot of things are enjoyable. Making this type of woodblock, or collecting the wood for the fire, or even cleaning things - it's all enjoyable and satisfying if you give yourself time - Nakamura.

I could smell an arrogance, it was my cheap fragrance.

What is enough for us will always be changing but the fact that we are enough will always be truth.

I have never aspired to be the greatest cook, but rather the greatest at inspiring others to cook. I believe the best way to do that is to make cooking approachable to all - with unpretentious recipes and delicious results, people are hooked. I hope my cookbooks are the ones covered in chocolate fingerprints with oil splatters and crinkled pages. The ones that never make it onto the bookshelf in the living room as they are tucked safely in the kitchen.

When we black people commit ourselves to living simply as a political action, as a way of breaking the stress caused by unrelenting hedonistic desire for material objects that are not needed for survival, or essential to well-being, we will not be talking about ebonics. We will be out in the streets demanding that the public schools have enough teachers so that all kids, cross color, can read and write in standard English and in Spanish too.

Society says you need lots of stuff to be happy. They are wrong.

If you're not using the stuff in your home, get rid of it. You're not going to start using it more by shoving it in a closet somewhere.

I have seen countless lives radically changed by the simple notion that we don’t need to own nearly as much stuff as we think we need.