I wanted to end the world but,I'll settle for ending yours.
The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.
Five Life Standards of Voluntary Simplicity Do Justice Learn from the World Community Nurture People Cherish the Natural Order Non-Conform Freely.
The best reason for listening to and learning from the poor is that this is one way God is revealed to us.
We become victims of the great disease of technological society - meaninglessness.
There are two ways to be rich: 1. Acquire great wealth 2. Acquire few needs.
Now and then, living more with less means paying more money. It may mean buying better quality - leaving behind repetitive purchases of discount junk for one expensive, well-made, thoughtfully designed tool that will last.
The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.
There is no gap as wide as the one between mediocrity and genius.
My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time. He was always so frustrated having to work to support the family that I was like, I'm never going to do that. I don't want to just be working a menial job to support my family and dreaming of being an artist. We learn from our fathers in that way.
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass. . .