“I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.”
–Oscar Wilde
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
–Henry David Thoreau
“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.”
–Yiddish Proverb
“Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first or last time. Then your time on Earth will be filled with glory.”
–Betty Smith
“it is never too late to be what you might have been.”
–George Eliot
“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
–Socrates
“Simplicity is the essence of happiness.”
–Cedric Bledso
“The more we simplify our material needs, the more we are free to think of other things.”
–Eleanor Roosevelt
“We do not know one-thousandth of one percent of what Nature has revealed to us.”
–Albert Einstein
“A well-spent day brings happy sleep.”
–Leonardo da Vinci
“Less is more.”
–Mies van der Rohe
“The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”
–Havelock Ellis
“The world is but a canvas to the imagination.”
–Henry David Thoreau
“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”
–Seneca
“It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary.”
–Paulo Coelho
“I go to Nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.”
–John Burroughs
“A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.”
–Joseph Addison
“It matters not how long we live, but how.”
–Philip James Bailey
“The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
–Marcus Aurelius
“There is enchantment right in front of you, waiting for you to notice.”–Janet Luhrs
“Only from the heart can you touch the sky.”
–Rumi