Quotes on Living Simply from the Small House Society

Inspiration for living small is plenty at the Small House Society. We appreciated their collection of quotes on living simply. Some of their choice quotes are after the jump:

"Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it." - Leonardo Da Vinci

"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." - Hans Hofmann, Introduction to the Bootstrap, 1993

"Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge." - Winston Churchill

"Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful." - William Morris

"Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves." - Edwin Way Teale

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Leonardo DaVinci

(photo by Tiny Houses.)

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i dont know. i can do small, but i cant do without 'stuff'. it's the stuff that makes me happy, and if i can fit it in the small, i'd be even happier.

posted by bl@ckd0g on April 18th 2007 at 9:00am
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stuff doesn't really make anyone happy, we've just been conditioned by a consumerist society to believe that to be the case.

posted by angorian on April 19th 2007 at 10:48am
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