This line jumped out at me from this blog post:
“Sin is a micromanaging slave owner welding a whip of guilt and threats of condemnation.”
Read more: http://www.graceisforsinners.com/life/abandon-your-slave-shack/#ixzz1jlOdhJAR
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"Human beings are learning creatures. Babies come out of the womb curious and ready to learn. They immediately begin to explore and learn about their world, without our persuasion. Later, they learn how to walk and talk without being artificially motivated. They don't take a course. They don't 'goof off' while learning these skills because they're bored or the 'work' is too hard. They are not marked, tested, graded or nagged to practice. They just do it. They are motivated by wanting to do these things well, like bigger people." Wendy Priesnitz, in the introduction entitled Learning in the Real World, from the book Life Learning: Lessons from the Educational Frontier
Excellent post from Katie: (found via FB: Katie blogs again over at incourage: God says, "I'm here now, and I am ok with the mess because I am here for the messy.")
http://www.incourage.me/2012/01/when-you-think-you-are-not-ready.html
“I like reading. Each time I read a new book, I am stretched as a person. I am forced to embrace a new thought and evaluate my life against it. I am taken to new places and enjoy conversations with new people. I am inspired, entertained, and invested into. I become a better person because of it… I just wish I did more of it. That’s why I’ve taken this occasion of a new year to purposely resolve to read more books.”
from the blog post:
http://www.becomingminimalist.com/2012/01/16/12-reasons-to-read-books/
1. “If there is one thing our society is lacking these days, it is Responsibility. Responsibility for our own actions. Responsibility for our own consequences. Responsibility for our behaviors, emotions, and reactions. All too often it is someone else’s fault or someone else’s job. In fact, so many people have outsourced their responsibilities to the point there is no one left to take responsibility for anything.”
2. “I want to raise adults. Real adults. Adults who are responsible, discerning, and purposeful. Christianity encourages maturity. It encourages seeking and searching, growing and learning. It encourages not just reading the Scripture, but doing the Scripture.”
these quotes are from the blog post: “I am raising adults” http://raisinghomemakers.com/2012/i-am-raising-adults/
EcoSalon’s favorite quotes about minimalism, downsizing, and living small. - http://ecosalon.com/30-best-quotes-on-living-small/
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. -William Morris
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. -Henry David Thoreau
Poverty is my pride. -Muhammed
With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy. -Lope de Vega
You know you have reached perfection of design not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away. -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Live simply so that others may simply live. -Elizabeth Ann Seton
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves. -Edwin Way Teale
Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it. -Leonardo Da Vinci
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. -Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction. -E.F. Schumacker
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less. -Socrates
The simplest things are often the truest. -Richard Bach
Less is more. -Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like. -Will Rogers
If one had taken what is necessary to cover one’s needs and had left the rest to those who are in need, no one would be rich, no one would be poor, no one would be in need. -Saint Basil
One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in. -Francis Jourdain
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. -Frederic Chopin
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. -Hans Hofmann
There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little. -Jackie French Koller
One of the advantages of being born in an affluent society is that if one has any intelligence at all, one will realize that having more and more won’t solve the problem, and happiness does not lie in possessions, or even relationships: The answer lies within ourselves. If we can’t find peace and happiness there, it’s not going to come from the outside. -Tenzin Palmo
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. -Confucious
We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties. -Anna C. Brackett
You say, ‘If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied,’ you make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled. -Charles Spurgeon
Any half-awake materialist well knows – that which you hold holds you. -Tom Robbins
The intention of voluntary simplicity is not to dogmatically live with less. It’s a more demanding intention of living with balance. This is a middle way that moves between the extremes of poverty and indulgence. -Duane Elgin
If one’s life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements. -The Dalai Lama
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
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
I bet most of us have experienced at some point the joys of less: college – in your dorm, traveling – in a hotel room, camping – rig up basically nothing, maybe a boat. Whatever it was for you, I bet that, among other things, this gave you a little more freedom, a little more time. -Graham Hill
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. -Hans Hofmann
