Learn Through Quotations

“The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor.”

“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.”

“Our character... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.”

“Less is more.”

“Bread and butter, devoid of charm in the drawing-room, is ambrosia eating under a tree.”

“That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

“Plain food is quite good enough for me.”

“We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs.”

“I have learned to seek my happiness by limited desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”

“How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.”

“A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.”

“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.”

“He is almost always a slave who cannot live on little.”

“There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.”

“A certain simplicity of living is usually necessary to happiness.”