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My riches consist, not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.
- Joeseph Brotherton
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato
Perfection is achieved not when there is any more to add but when there is nothing left to take away.
- Antoine de Saint-exupéry
Strive for simplicity in all things.
- Unknown
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.
- Edwin Way Teale
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- Leonardo da Vinci
There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little.
- Jackie French Koller
It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and prepared that if an enemy take the town... he can walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety.
- Henry David Thoreau
A fool is known by his speech, a wise man by silence.
- Pythagoras
People who do not understand your silence will never understand your words.
- Unknown
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
- Socrates
If you never heal from what hurt you, you'll bleed on people who never cut you.
- Rich Wilkerson
If you don't separate yourself from your distractions, your distractions will separate you from you goals and the life you want.
- Unknown
If you're worried about a situation, write down everything your worried about, then cross out everything you can't control and deal with the things you can.
- Name Unavailable
Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.
- Roy T. Bennett
Only speak when your words are better than your silence.
- Arabic Proverb
Attachment leads to jealousy the shadow of greed that is. Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.
- Yoda
Some hustle to be seen, I grind to disappear.
- Unknown
My father always told me never trust anyone whose tv is bigger than their bookshelf.
- Emilia Clarke
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.
- Sun Tzu - The art of war
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Most people don't really want the truth, they just want a constant reassurance that what they believe is the truth.
Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.
- Carl Jung
Governments don't want an intelligent population because people who can think critically can't be ruled. They want a public just smart enough to pay taxes and dumb enough to keep voting.
No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them.
- Peanuts Comic-strip
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley
People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
- Aldous Huxley
Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
- Albert Einstein