“Here is the secret to subtraction. It doesn’t matter what you remove. What matters is that you stop adding it back.”— Erin Loechner, amazon.com
“You sell off the kingdom piece by piece and trade it for a horse that will take you anywhere.”— Colin Wright, amazon.com
“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.”— Seneca, amazon.com
“The first lesson — great men are always the kindest. The second lesson was that they nearly always lead the simplest lives.”— Stefan Zweig, amazon.com
“I have my freedom today because nothing really happened and nobody came to see me, only the slow growing of the garden in the summer heat and the silence of that unborn life making itself known at my desk my hands still dark with the crumbling soil as I write and watch the first lines of a new poem…”— David Whyte, amazon.com
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.”— E.F. Schumacher, amazon.com
“More moving. Less complaining. More creating. Less scrolling. More documenting. Less spending.”— Anonymous, amazon.com
“I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all encumbrances, and reduce…”— Henry David Thoreau, walden.org