"Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful."

-- Nina Grigoreva

"Very little is needed to make a happy life."

-- Marcus Aurelius

"To sit and look

to sit and listen 

then to move

interests us."

-- Paul Reps

"I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on the earth is not a hardship but a pastime -- if we live simply and wisely."

-- Thoreau

"If thou needs anything and cannot find it, come to me and I will tell you how to get along without it."

-- Etta Macey

"There exist no miraculous methods in the world, only simple ones; it is the perfection of the simple that is miraculous."

--Fei Boxiong

"Get rid of things or you'll spend your whole life tidying up."

-- Marguerite Duras

"Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity."

-- Thor Heyerdahl

"Season's first tea fire

hanging scroll

Nothing to possess."

-- Mitsu Suzuki

"So please let us realize that simplicity, austerity, and complete abandonment help one to see reality."

-- Krishnamurti

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler."

-- Einstein

"If you wish to astonish the world tell the simple truth."

-- Rahel

"The greatest truths are the simplest; and so are the greatest men."

-- A.W. Hare

"In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity."

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self."

-- Emerson

"There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats grape-nuts on principle."

-- G.K. Chesterton

"It does not require many words to speak the truth."

-- Chief Joseph

"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"The point is to come to rest in the moment and to share that experience with others as simply and as openly as possible."

-- Clark Strand

"Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood."

-- Freeman Teague, Jr.