How To Live Simply Quotes

#1. The organized churches must become schools of spiritual discipline where Christians are taught how to own without treasuring (Matt. 6:21); how to possess without, like the "rich young ruler," being possessed (Mark 10:22); how to live simply, even frugally, though controlling great wealth and power.

Dallas Willard

#2. How to live simply? It is a big question. Let the answer come into the empty space that one must create in oneself. Trying to live simply is not the way - we don't know how. Trying to fix it is filling the space with activity, when what is needed is to empty oneself and allow an answer to appear ...

Michel De Salzmann

#3. People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over. The frenzy is barely noticeable most of the time. It's simply how we live.

Don DeLillo

#4. Life is simply time given to man to learn how to live.

William George Jordan

#5. Many Americans simply don't want the pinheads in Washington or the various state capitals to be telling us how to live. But we are absolutely going in that direction. President Obama is hell-bent on imposing a bureaucracy that levels all playing fields at great expense in coin and in freedom.

Bill O'Reilly

#6. Backpacking has noble ideals: to see how the locals live, to interact with them, to be respectful and blend in as much as possible. Backpackers want to learn, we want to understand the worlds we have entered, not simply consume them.

Rachel Friedman

#7. But I must never forget how blessed I have been. God has given me gifts and happiness, beyond any of my simple desires. My deepest desire now is to simply live ... So with hope and determination, I'd hold on and go on.

Farrah Fawcett

#8. That fucking crow-bodied thing had won. How gleeful it was now. All because he'd wanted to live, forget genius and destiny, and simply be happy. And it wouldn't let him.

Janet Fitch

#9. I have always believed that the man who begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. In an age of extravagance and waste, I wish I could show to the world how few the real wants of humanity are.

Ernest Hemingway,

#10. How can we know ourselves by ourselves? ... Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live. For this we need relationships of the profoundest kind through which we can realize ourselves, where self-revelation is possible, where interest in and love for soul is paramount.

James Hillman

#11. You see, we need instruction on how to possess money without being possessed by money. We need help to learn how to own things without treasuring them. We need the discipline that will allow us to live simply while managing great wealth and power.

Richard J. Foster

#12. The secret of health, happiness, and long life: If you simply learn how to accept and express love, you will live longer ... be happier ... grow healthier. For love is a powerful force.

Alfred Armand Montapert

#13. I don't know how to explain Bob's love except to say it is utterly and delightfully devastating. You simply cannot live the same once you know him.

Bob Goff

#14. The Jedi taught you much more than simply how to fight. They taught you how to live, how to live within the Force, and upholad the bond you share with it.

Joe Schreiber

#15. I think the idea of simply "enduring to the end" is a terrible philosophy and an awful way to live one's life. How you spend your days is how you live your life, and if you're spending them "enduring" anything then you're doing it wrong.

James A. Owen

#16. She simply stared at me with such a loving expression on her face, I felt like I was her foal. Indah reached her head as far as she could around me, to press me to her. I melted. How could I live without this horse? I wrapped my arms around her neck and let my tears flow.

Kelly Batten

#17. Her advice boiled down to a consistent theme: that we all have to learn how to live with uncertainty, because some things are simply out of our control.

Susan Stellin

#18. The heart of most spiritual practices is simply this: Remember who you are. Remember what you love. Remember what is sacred. Remember what is true. Remember that you will die and that this day is a gift. Remember how you wish to live.

Wayne Muller

#19. How do we live in a way that shows an understanding that we genuinely live in a shared world, not one that simply belongs to us?

Rowan Williams

#20. We live in a completely interdependent world, which simply means we can not escape each other. How we respond to AIDS depends, in part, on whether we understand this interdependence. It is not someone else's problem. This is everybody's problem.

Bill Clinton

#21. I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

Oscar Wilde

#22. ...(he) had his own set of rules: "ride clean and ride fair." Asked by reporters how he managed to keep calm despite the attacks by other cyclists, Marshall answered, "I simply ride away.

Lesa Cline-Ransome

#23. She told me to live ... I didn't know how to tell Her that simply being alive was not enough to be called living.

Kiera Cass

#24. In one generation, my family went from extermination simply because of how they pray to God to this ridiculously privileged life I live today. So how can I not love America?

Jerry Springer

#25. People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That's how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be "correct" or "true"? Merely vague concepts ... Their Reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?

Masashi Kishimoto

#26. In this modern world it is easy to be complex but difficult to be simple. At least try to keep your mind simple.

Debasish Mridha

#27. The reason for problems in our churches is not that we are all evil people. It is simply that we have not learned the ways of the King and His Kingdom enough for Him to influence how we think and live in every part of our lives.

Bill Johnson

#28. Some people simply seem to know how to live. They know when to seize the day, when to go with the flow, and when to row for dear life.

Nel Newman

#29. Kira: Why did Sei choose death? Was it simply to end his pain? Or ... No matter what shape he was in or how crazy it was ... maybe he wanted to live on forever in Rei ...

Fuyumi Soryo

#30. But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?

Patrick Rothfuss

#31. Not to live for the day, that would be materialistic - but to treasure the day. I realize that most of us live on the skin - on the surface - without appreciating just how wonderful it is simply to be alive at all.

Audrey Hepburn