Quotes About Simplicity

Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.

For 10 years, I gave away my possessions every year and moved on to a new place.

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.

I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.

I've never been somebody who needs their car or other material, larger possessions to say something flashy about them.

I don't have a lot of clothes or a lot of possessions to bog me down.

I don't like possessions.

Possessions aren't my raison d'etre.

I barely ever reread the chapter before posting, because I overthink things, and I feel like overediting or trying to use too many words can ruin the story.

When you're poor, an egg sandwich is dinner and you cut your potatoes with a butter knife.

I only like food without color, like potatoes, bread, and pasta.

I really dislike flavoured potato chips, and so I always insist on just potatoes and salt, y'know? But that's not weird.

What's happened to society is we've become really pretentious. But there was a time in my life where I really had to choose between boiling potatoes and paying my gas bill, so I'd buy a can of potatoes.

I like to encourage people interested in gardening or planting to begin with a simple herb garden. Even if you live in a small apartment, you can have some herb pots.

'That's Not Me' video cost me 80 English pounds.

I suppose that the Western has always been a kind of mold to which you could pour the concerns of the day, but have them seen in the simple terms of the Western, of one alley or whatever.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.

My basics for a daytime look are simple: powder, gloss, brows and lashes.

My everyday look is foundaton, bronzer, mattifying powder, a bit of blush, mascara and a lip balm or lip colour - and that's it!

I don't like overdoing my makeup, especially with the face powder.

For me, less is more. I don't often wear makeup, but when I do, a little concealer and some powder go a long way.

I just wear like a powder, like a Bare Minerals, maybe some Nars, like a bronzer or blush, light gloss for my lips. That's pretty much it. Mascara.