Eugene Delacroix Quotes

I'm not an ascetic.

Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.

Dogme is like leading a religious life, in that you are freeing yourself from making certain choices. It makes life easier.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

I like simplicity almost to the point of being monastic.

We shall have to practise to lead our life on the basis of our needs, not under the influence of our greed.

Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.

Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.

The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away one's worldly goods.

Less is a bore.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

There is an almost anti-epicurean tradition at the very base of America. For much of the middle part of American history, people who wanted to overcome that went to France.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

I am a woman of simple tastes.

When you're young, the temptation is maybe to think, 'More is more.' But a lot of the time less is more.

I am not a person who believes in austerity or denial.

The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.

For it is better to suffer a little want than to have too much.

It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest of all, it is a campaign not just against other people, but against ourselves.

I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.