„How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea…. All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.“

— Nikos Kazantzakis

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„I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.“
— Nikos Kazantzakis
„We are not simple people who believe in happiness;“
— Nikos Kazantzakis
„Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.“
— Paramahansa Yogananda
„She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines.“
— Haruki Murakami
„As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.“
— Ernest Hemingway