Life Less Complicated Quotes

#1. Life is simple, it has always been. What is complex is our brain, and that's the main reason why we perceive life as being complicated. Embrace life for what you have and embrace life for who you are, as what you have others might envy and who you are might be secretly being admired by millions.

Jeekeshen Chinnappen

#2. I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#3. Beautiful and fresh, Girl Saves Boy is full of the absolute truth-life is complicated. I could not put it down.

Rebecca Stead

#4. Life was complicated enough without borrowing trouble.

Raine Miller

#5. Adult life is terrible, Hazel. Never grow up.
Everything's complicated, and there are too many rules ...

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#6. I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.

Dorothy Allison

#7. Life isn't complicated.
We are.

Manoj Vaz

#8. The most complicated and scary things in life are really about something a lot more simple.

Lara Zielin

#9. My life has been extremely complicated. Not by choice at the beginning at all, but later on, I had become used to complication and went on accepting things that other people would have found too difficult to accept.

Benoit Mandelbrot

#10. Later, he was to decide that Andrew's life had been fractally weird. That is, you could take any small piece of it and examine it in detail and it, in and of itself, would turn out to be just as complicated and weird as the whole thing in its entirety.

Neal Stephenson

#11. Something inside me clicks. It's like I've spent my whole life fiddling with a complicated combination only to discover I was toying with the wrong lock.

Jasmine Warga

#12. The older I get the more I realize how simple life is and how complicated we make it ...

James A. Murphy

#13. A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems at the beginning.

John Irving

#14. I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.

Malcolm Gladwell

#15. Fact is, knowing what you want and knowing who you are ... those are two separate things. One is complicated. The other isn't. You're trying to take something simple and make it hard, and there's enough hard things in life without you adding more for yourself.

Cora Carmack

#16. Conquering enemy cities was far less complicated than the women in his life, or the children they bore for him.

Conn Iggulden

#17. For me, talking about church in front of a bunch of Christians means approaching a microphone and attempting to explain the most important, complicated, beautiful, and heart-wrenching relationship of my life in thirty minutes or less without yelling or crying or saying any cuss words.

Rachel Held Evans

#18. She just happened to feel like it. Wasn't that after all, the only reason there was? Had she ever had a less selfish, more complicated reason for doing anything in her life?

Richard Yates

#19. If you can train yourself to be actionable instead of reactionary, you will break out of the negative space that is typically furnished with fear, uncertainty and inaction, and move into that peaceful zone of determination, power, decisiveness and growth. Life will become less complicated.

Carlos Wallace

#20. He gave Dancer one last pat. 'You're luckier than you know, pal. Living without a set of balls makes life a lot less complicated.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#21. I was planning a death, not a burglary, but in many ways that just made it easier. Taking a life was, in my experience, a damned sight less complicated than taking jewels from a hidden strongbox.

Michael McClung

#22. I fucking love you, you know," he said. "You made my life complicated as fuck, and I could care less.

Nenia Campbell

#23. When we hurt for somebody, it's almost always related to our own emotions, with nothing to do with the other person. Sounds selfish, but it's true; and life is less complicated when we give in to the truth.

Vanessa Garden

#24. If we look at things as they are instead of giving them our own shape and colour, life will be less complicated

Santosh Joshi

#25. I am married but I've yet to meet my wife, and she is dead. Such is the life of a time-traveler ... complicated, that is.

M.K. Alexander

#26. In order not to cut out a large part of one's private life, the creative work should not swallow up every other form of self-expression. But that is the most complicated thing.

Elena Ferrante

#27. Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment - the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.

Jorge Luis Borges

#28. I can do pain. That's the easy part of life. It's everything else, happiness, laughter, love, that's fucking complicated.

Jessica Sorensen

#29. LIFE is simply COMPLICATED.

Shaikh Mustafa

#30. Sometimes life may look complicated than it is, but you'll have to play it just the way it is and make it proper, the way you would wish it to be in your own words.

Auliq Ice

#31. When everything in life gets so complicated it only takes a day to change it

Bruno Mars

#32. Fuck," she said, after a minute. "And I thought I liked to make my life complicated." She

Jojo Moyes

#33. We're all human and life is complicated.

Mark Kozelek

#34. IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.

A. N. Wilson

#35. I'm just really a free spirit. You gotta be like that. 'Cause life ain't that complicated. It's only that complicated when you make it that way. I just wanna wake up and move with the way it goes. If it's meant to happen, it will happen.

Nayvadius Cash

#36. Somehow, my whole existence had become a really complicated word problem.
I'd always sucked at those.

Rachel Hawkins

#37. To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to have a complicated moral philosophy. But a writer always tries, I think, to be a part of a solution, to understand a little about life and to pass this on.

Anne Lamott

#38. Maybe that's all life was, this impossibly complicated helix of choice and accident, things you could control and couldn't. And when the day was done, the only measure of success was how happy you were, how much you loved and were loved.

Lisa Unger

#39. Love is not enough. Life and marriage is so much more complicated than this

Barbara Bartlein

#40. Obviously this all gets tricky/complicated when your writing reveals so much of your private/intimate life, and the nature of writing on the Internet comes with a lot of focus on your "personal brand."

Marie Calloway

#41. How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?

Sonya Hartnett

#42. Real wisdom is simple. Living life rightly does not have to be a complicated challenge.

Jim Rohn

#43. Eloise knew that it was so much more complicated than that. There are no trades in this life, and depression is a dark, dark doorway some people have no choice but to walk through.

Lisa Unger

#44. Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine

Lawrence Durrell

#45. It is not the grown man- the galumphing, unshaven, stinking, opinionated offspring- you see before you, with his parking tickets and unpolished shoes and complicated love life. You see all the people he has ever been all rolled up into one.

Jojo Moyes

#46. I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with me. I feel really in touch with those feelings, and how intense and complicated life seems in those years.

Sara Zarr

#47. Personal finance is a means to an end - living a rich and fulfilling life. It is not hard. It is not complicated. I write this to share simple truths I've learned from some very wise people.

Rick Van Ness

#48. It's important to control yourself because life gets too complicated if you don't, but the impulse is often there for people. Some say society should be more open. That doesn't work either.

Woody Allen