Quote: Richard Foster

Simplicty is the only thing that can sufficiently reorient our lives so that possessions can be genuinely enjoyed without destroying us.

-Richard Foster

Author of "Freedom of Simplicity"

Quote: Duane Elgin

The making of money and the accumulation of things should not smother  the purity of the soul, the life of the mind, the cohesion of the family, or the good of the society.

-Duane Elgin

Author of "Voluntary Simplicity"

Quote: Henry David Thoreau

Our lives are frittered away by detail; simplify, simplify.

-Henry David Thoreau

(11817-1862)

Quote: James N. Watkins

"The least of these" includes 24,000 people worldwide who die daily from starvation and malnutrition. That's over 8 million annually. Three of four who die are younger than 5 years old. But it's not an unsolvable problem. Hunger relief groups estimate that it would take $13 billion a year to end hunger for the earth's poorest citizens. North Americans and Europeans spend $18 billion each year on pet food.

-James N. Watkins

in the article "Purposeful Simplicity" from Light and Life Magazine July/August 2008

Quote: Duane Elgin

We can describe voluntary simplicity as a manner of living that is outwardly more simple and inwardly more rich, a way of being in which our most authentic and alive self is brought into direct and conscious contact with living.

-Duane Elgin

Author of Voluntary Simplicity.