"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
– Leonardo da Vinci
"The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less."
– Socrates
"Men have become the tools of their tools."
– Henry David Thoreau
"It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has."
– Henry Ward Beecher
"Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like."
– Will Rogers
"Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify."
– Henry David Thoreau
"Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants."
– Epicurus
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
– Hans Hofmann
"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."
– Seneca
"Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants."
– Epicurus
"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."
– Plato
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Make things as simple as possible but no simpler."
– Albert Einstein
"Have nothing in your homes that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful."
– William Morris
"My riches consist, not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants."
– Joseph Brotherton
"If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, then this is the best season of your life."
– Wu-Men
"Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants."
– Epictetus
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
– Confucious