Simpleness Can Be

Truth

Enough

A grace

Clarity

The key

Lucidity

Subtlety

Clearness

Coherence

Concision

Greatness

Integrity

Plainness

Directness

Efficiency

Elimination

Having less

Living free

Naturalness

Owning less

A discipline

A quiet life

A rare pearl

Needing less

Slowing down

Wanting less

Less features

Uncomplication

Wanting little

Desiring little

Direct thinking

Doing with less

Intelligibility

Akin to grandeur

Less materialism

Self-sufficiency

Comprehensibility

Ordering our soul

Possessing little

Understandability

Having few desires

Needing less stuff

Single heartedness

Nothing superfluous

The greatest wealth

A reduction of wants

Letting things alone

Making our wants few

Perfection in design

Reducing selfishness

Clarity of expression

The final achievement

The key to brilliance

Eliminating redundancy

Enjoying our own goods

Keeping an empty shelf

Knowing what to ignore

Scaling down our wants

The supreme excellence

Deciding what not to do

The friend of execution

The glory of expression

Taking only what we need

The essence of happiness

The first of excellences

The peak of civilisation

The ultimate goal of art

Freedom from affectation

A minimum put to good use

The nature of great souls

Freedom from abstruseness

A broad margin to our life

Austerity in embellishment

Owning as little as we can

Owning less to have enough

The absence of consumption

The crowning reward of art

Eliminating the unessential

Having less, and doing more

The ultimate sophistication

To live content with little

Disciplined underconsumption

The highest level of mastery

Something we are called to do

Stopping doing all the things

The greatest adornment of art

A reaction against materialism

Absence of luxury or showiness

Being easy to understand or do

Common sense and plain dealing

Focusing on things that matter

Having enough but not too much

Living a more intentional life

Overlooking unimportant things

The first essential of success

Plain question and plain answer

Freedom from artificial ornament

Getting back to first principles

The keynote of all true elegance

How many things we can do without

Living quietly, apart from things

Accomplishing more by working less

Enjoying the natural and the plain

Having just a garden and a library

The wealth of a poverty of desires

Laying off what is weighing us down

The half being better than the whole

Being without unnecessary possessions

The first step toward rational living

Eliminating the needless wants of life

Keeping our accounts on our thumb-nail

One of the truest marks of distinction

The only way to treat a strong subject

When we have nothing more to take away

Giving less attention to the artificial

When there is nothing left to take away

Freedom from the intricacy of complexity

Not making the process harder than it is

Preferring the more limited, if adequate

Distinguishing the necessary and the real

Using common words to say uncommon things

Counting half a dozen instead of a million

A gift to be graciously given and received

Beauty of style, harmony, grace and rhythm

Not multiplying entities without necessity

The state of being unmixed or uncompounded

Living holistically with our life’s purpose

The sign of truth and a criterion of beauty

A first step toward the mastery of a subject

Not getting more done, but having less to do

Cutting back and streamlining our possessions

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin

Absence of elegance, embellishment, and luxury

Being plain or uncomplicated in form or design

Discerning the vital few from the trivial many

An exact medium between too little and too much

Freedom from extravagance, luxury and complexity

Reducing consumption, work time, and possessions

Probing the earth to see where our main roots run

When our mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things

An ultimate condition to be attained in all things

Freedom from excessive possessions or distractions

Clearing the way for the bare necessities of things

Identifying the essential, and eliminating the rest

A superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort

The achievement of maximum effect with minimum means

Cutting nonessential features and adding helpful ones

The by-product of a good idea and modest expectations

The day-to-day experience of wearing Jesus’ easy yoke

The number of things which we can afford to let alone

Not how much space there is, but rather how it is used

Reducing the whole of its parts into the simplest terms

Making the journey of this life with just baggage enough

Where real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully

A quality that measures the true value of any work of art

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life

The perfect union of the beautiful, useful and appropriate

Treating everything in the greatest naturalness and clarity

Finding the beauty in less and putting quality over quantity

To eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak

The state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts

Freedom from artificial ornament, pretentious style, or luxury

Cutting back our possessions and living a less hectic lifestyle

Being able to walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety

Expressing fundamental ideas in a language comprehensible to everyone

To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how

Letting our affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand

The supreme excellence in character, in manner, in style, in all things

Removing most of the dispensible luxuries and so-called comforts of life

Getting off the hedonic treadmill of consumption and living more with less

Not how much information there is, but rather how effectively it is organized

Living a life driven by what’s most important to us – not by possessions or status

Creating harmony among very few objects, each one of which is unique and indispensable

Having nothing in our house that we do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful

Being satisfied with what we have been given and being diligent in our work for the Lord

Decor belonging intimately to the design proper, and anything foreign to it being taken away

Valuing things that make us happy instead of chasing status symbols or societal expectations

The sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature that make living worthwhile

A calendar that’s not packed with obligations that don’t add value to our life or busywork designed to make us feel productive

Saying no to the things in our life that aren’t the best so that we are free and available to say yes to those things we truly want

Tossing off some of the unnecessary baggage and ballast that is keeping us from shouldering our true mission as Christ’s body on earth

Going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so we can see more, doing less so we can do more, acquiring less so we can have more

Owning fewer things, reducing the amount of pressure on ourselves to work to buy more things, and gaining extra time to spend doing the things that bring us true joy

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter … to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring