National Simplicity Day is observed on 12 July in memory of the author, poet and philosopher Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau, in his book “Walden” (1854) and other publications, offered ways for individuals to tap within themselves and be happier through less hectic lifestyles. He urged people to live simply by getting rid of unnecessary assets.
National Simplicity Day originated from the desire to break free from the complexity of the world and enable us to be simple. The day focuses on detaching from technology and unnecessary stress to embrace life as it is, and not to complicate things.
Following are quotes from Henry David Thoreau that will help reduce your stress and calm you down:
“I went into the woods because I wanted to live consciously, to face only the essential facts of life, and to see if I could not learn what to teach it, and no, when I came to die, Turns out I didn’t live.”
“It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.”
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can leave alone.”
“There is no one who makes a more fatal mistake than the one who spends most of his life for his livelihood.”
“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will become simpler; Solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness. “
“If a person does not keep pace with his peers, it is probably because he listens to a different drummer. Let him step towards the music he hears, however measured or distant.”
“Every creature is better alive than the dead, humans, and mosses and pine trees, and he who understands this correctly will preserve his life rather than destroy it.”
“Not by love, by money, by fame, give me the truth.”
“What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are small things compared to what resides within us.”
“Books are the world’s precious wealth and a fitting legacy of generations and nations.”
“Don’t be too moral. You can deceive yourself with too many lives. Aim above morality. Don’t just be good, be good at something.”
“Our lives have become blown away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will become simpler”.
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