Poverty is mean and degrading to the human spirit, whereas a life of conscious simplicity can have both a beauty and a functional integrity that elevates the human spirit.

Compassion will no longer be seen as a spiritual luxury for a contemplative few; rather it will be viewed as a social necessity for the entire human family.

We live almost completely immersed in a socially constructed reality that so fully absorbs our energy and attention that virtually none remains to experience the wonder of our existence.

The essence of voluntary simplicity is living in a way what is outwardly simple and inwardly rich.

Simplicity means to choose ways of living that touch the Earth more lightly and that reduce our ecological footprint.

In a world where nearly one billion people live near the edge of physical survival the relevance of intentional simplicity by the more affluent people of the world cannot be over estimated.

Simplicity means to feel such a sense of kinship with others that we choose to live simply so that others may simply live.

We are the leaders that we have been waiting for. We are the social innovators and entrepreneurs that we have been seeking.

Only after people express their anger and sadness over the broken dreams of material prosperity will they turn to the task of building a sustainable economy.

The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions of persons.

I consciously started to live simply when I started to become conscious.

Leadership is not the loudest roar that creates change it is the consistent whisper that challenges your fears and inspires your magnificence

Probably it's true, The Purge works for the government, who knows?

Happiness doesn't just happen. I'm convinced that for the most part, those who focus their minds on it, obtain it.

Health is ... a blessing that money cannot buy.

Today let's give thanks for life. For life itself. For simply being born!

The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself.

Dare to wear the foolish clown face.

Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.