David Shi famous quotes

Happiness is not synonymous with pleasure. It is, instead, a deeper emotion that originates from within. . . . Happiness results from a sense of mental and moral contentment with who we are, what we value, and how we invest our time and resources for purposes beyond ourselves.
-- David Shi

#Contentment #Purpose #Who We Are

As a myth of national purpose and as a program for individual conduct, the simple life has, in a sense, served as the nation's conscience, reminding Americans of what the founders had hoped they would be and thereby providing a vivifying counterpoint to the excesses of materialist individualism.
-- David Shi

#Simple #Would Be #Purpose

Liberating oneself from the addiction of consumerism and careerism promotes inner peace.
-- David Shi

#Simple #Addiction #Inner Peace

Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material moderation, it can be practiced in cities and suburbs, townhouses and condominiums. It requires neither a log cabin nor a hairshirt but a deliberate ordering of priorities so as to distinguish between the necessary and superfluous, useful and wasteful, beautiful and vulgar.
-- David Shi

#Beautiful #Self #Essence

It is our dreams that energize us more than our abilities.
-- David Shi

#Dream #Ability #Our Dreams

The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.

Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.

Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them.

An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.

I'd rather stimulate your mind than emulate your purpose

Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own. ... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis ...

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in no event may my image or name or any music or any artistic property created by me be used for advertising purposes

Genetics play a huge part in who we are. But we also have free will.

God uses us in spite of who we are, not because of it.

At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most, because they are what shaped us. We have grown to be who we are around them, as around a stake.