An idea from Walden

Most lives are “frittered away by detail.” Cut the list of things you manage down to a handful. If you have to, eat 1 meal a day instead of 3, and 5 dishes instead of 100. “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!”

From Walden by Henry David Thoreau

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