Simplify

As I've been pondering all my decorating decisions and being overwhelmed by my choices and all the photographs of styles that I like and beautiful rooms, I have decided that most of all I want things to be simple. Simply wonderful, simply beautiful, simply useful, simply welcoming, simply cozy, simply organized, and simply home.

Here are some quotes that embrace what it means to simplify life.

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


Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ~Leonardo DaVinci

Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Lao Tzu


We don't need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it. ~Donald Horban

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough. ~Author Unknown


Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things. ~Elise Boulding

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
Elbert Hubbard


Our life is frittered away by detail… Simplify, simplify.
Henry Thoreau