Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

  • -- Peace Pilgrim 和平朝圣者

不必要的财产是不必要的负担。如果你有它们,你必须照顾它们!简单的生活有很大的自由。最幸福的人是那些拥有足够但不太多的人。

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And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.

我发现我不能像现在这样度过这一天的原因是因为我有太多的事情要做,我有太多的事情要做,你知道,一个人有太多的事情要做。所以我开始删除一些东西,太沉重,携带和不必要的。

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

一切深刻的东西都是简单的,只要保持对整个真理的参照,就可以简单地再现出来。但重要的不是机智,而是真实。

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

除了把事情做完的高尚艺术,还有把事情做完的高尚艺术。生活的智慧在于消除不必要的东西。

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

财富的拥有者几乎不可能对那些几乎或几乎是他们财产的肥沃来源的过程漠不关心。

Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.

自由属于诚实的人。不诚实的人不能自由——他是自己的陷阱。

Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.

园艺是文明的和社会的,但它想要森林的活力和自由和不法之徒。

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

文明是不必要的必需品的无限增长。

All my possessions for a moment of time.

我所有的一切都是为了那一刻的时光。