"Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough"
- Charles Dudley Warner
About this Quote
This quote by Charles Dudley Warner talks with the idea of living a basic life. It suggests that we must not problem ourselves with excessive "baggage" in life. This can refer to physical things, such as properties, or it can describe emotional baggage, such as concerns and also anxieties. By travelling via life with just the necessary luggage, we can focus on the journey itself, rather than being weighed down by unneeded things. This quote urges us to live a life of simpleness, free from the disturbances of product properties and also psychological turmoil. It advises us to focus on the trip of life, and also to delight in the minutes we have, instead of worrying about the important things we do not have. By travelling through life with just the required luggage, we can take advantage of our trip as well as value the elegance of life.
"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures"