#simplicity

So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul. ↗

— Ignatius Loyola

#lord #love #my own #own #perceive

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#care #enough #freedom #great #happiest

A person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things. ↗

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

#simplicity #taste #beauty

Love the moment for its simplicity, it may give or take nothing from you, but in the blinking of an eye it will have change so many things forever. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#change #forever #love #moment #simplicity

health, social life, job, house, partners, finances; leisure use, leisure amount; working time, education, income, children; food, water, shelter, clothing, sex, health care; mobility; physical safety, social safety, job security, savings account, insurance, disability protection, family leave, vacation; place tenure, a commons; access to wilderness, mountains, ocean; peace, political stability, political input, political satisfaction; air, water, esteem; status, recognition; home, community, neighbors, civil society, sports, the arts; longevity treatments, gender choice; the opportunity to become more what you are that's all you need ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#necessities #simplicity #the-good-life #art

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#nature #simplicity #equality

Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of anything that distracts us from it. ↗

— Joshua Becker

#possessions #simplicity #home

The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated. ↗

— Criss Jami

#complication #genius #intelligence #practicality #practicality-for-intellectuals

Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend. ↗

— Criss Jami

#clever #comprehend #comprehension #content #contentment

Every day offers us simple gifts when we are willing to search our hearts for the place that's right for each of us. (January 15) ↗

— Sarah Breathnach

#life #self-awareness #simplicity #life