Top 45 Quotes About A Simpler Life
#1. Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to a simpler way allows us to regain our dignity, puts us in touch with the land, and makes us value human contact again.
Yvon Chouinard
#2. We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.
Freeman Thomas
#3. In Dallas, life is a little slower. It's a little more day-to-day routine. It's just a simpler life. At the end of the day, I love Texas girls, and I kind of relate to them.
Josh Henderson
#4. Married life is a simpler life. Who I spend my time with is established in advance.
Bill Gates
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#6. An unsuspected yearning uncovered, discovered. For a simpler time and a simpler life. Before Internet, and climate change, and terrorism. When neighbors worked together, and separation was not a topic or an issue or wise.
Louise Penny
#7. Going back to a simpler life is not a step backwards.
Yvon Chouinard
#8. Just always be honest about your feelings. If everyone did that then the world would be a much simpler place.
Kiki Archer
#9. Let it go. That's my philosophy: learn to not give a fuck, at least about petty shit. Life will be much simpler.
Cherrie Lynn
#10. Like life, revenge can be a messy business... And both would be much simpler if only our heads could figure out which way our hearts will go. But the heart has its reasons, of which reason cannot know.
Emily Thorne
#11. What's taking place during stress is actually much simpler than a transaction between stressful life events and you. There aren't two parties involved in stress. There is only one - your own mind.
Andrew J. Bernstein
#12. Self-discipline is crucial to a simpler, more contented life.
Dalai Lama
#13. Emily thought maybe it was simpler than that: Some people gave money instead of love because it was all they had to give. A full bank account and a life of good deeds achieved with money didn't mean a full heart or a giving soul - often just the opposite.
Lisa Unger
#14. I build things that I think are exciting from a technology standpoint and will help make life easier, simpler and better for people.
Philippe Kahn
#15. To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals
and critics of the Women's Movement.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
#16. The more you can remove the obstacles between you and the world as a woman, the easier and simpler life becomes.
Cate Blanchett
#17. An individual's yearning to reach outside his life is a seed of greatness waiting for a stream of inspiration. Carving that stream to people's hearts is a simpler task if the endeavor you are leading them into is attached to a bigger story.
Mac Anderson
#18. Joey wished there were some different world he could belong to, some simpler world in which a good life could be had at nobody else's expense.
Jonathan Franzen
#19. Taking a single letter from the alphaber," he said, "should make life simpler."
"I don't see why. Take the F from life and you have lie. It's adding a letter to simple that makes it simpler. Taking a letter from hoarder makes it harder.
James Thurber
#21. Maintaining a close relationship with the Savior is the only goal Paul would set. He wasn't perfect at it, but he singlemindedly pursued it. And he encourages us to do so today. Life is much simpler when we choose to pursue only one thing - the race before us. Don't look back.
Various
#22. than life itself. Then Christ said: 'I will show you a simpler way. If you do one thing, you will do these hundred and ten things, without ever thinking about them. If you love, you will unconsciously fulfill the whole law.
Paulo Coelho
#23. Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
Robert Orben
#24. One may sigh for all that one loses in giving up the old religion ... but the new irreligion is the manlier, honester and simpler thing, and affords a better throry of life and a more solid basis for morality.
Charles Eliot Norton
#25. A woman's death, through much of the same history, was thought to be a simpler thing, preferably quiet and uncomplaining, or tragically in childbirth. Just as women were denied the right and the capacity to a full life, they were denied the right and the capacity to a full death as well.
Robert C. Solomon
#26. Westerns just thematically, as a genre, have kind of a few tent poles that I really admire, and one of them is this perception that life was simpler back then. And with that perception goes that people were good or people were bad. You survived by your strengths or you perished by your weaknesses.
Kiefer Sutherland
#27. In life, genius often finds its home in simplicity. And in the cowboy's world, amid the complications of dealing with cows and cowboys, horses and dogs, and trucks and tractors, there may be nothing simpler, yet more ingenius, than a meal cooked over an open fire and served up behind a chuck wagon.
Rocco Wachman
#28. Like so many addicts, I'd thought that if I could only sort out my life, I could then sort out my drinking. It was a revelation to see that it would be simpler the other way around
Pete Townshend
#29. Our world is built on adrenaline and getting away with it. Different cities different names. Its a far simpler life to lead when there is one around to tell you when you are being stupid. Believe me dear cousin I know better than anyone.
- Gabrielle
Ally Carter
#30. We all pine for a time in life when things were simpler. Even when they weren't necessarily simpler, hindsight makes them look a lot simpler. The reality of it was that it wasn't.
Ben Gibbard
#31. Did you know that there is a condition that appears before any sort of pain, diseases and disorder? It is simpler than you can imagine right now. My dear friend, that condition very much exists, it is very real. In simple words we can call it the 'weak flow of Chi' (life energy).
William Lee
#32. A man's needs are few. The simpler the life, therefore, the better. Indeed, only three things are truly necessary in order to make life happy: the blessing of God, the benefit of books, and the benevolence of friends.
Thomas Chalmers
#33. You will die a dozen deaths, boy, and every one will hurt ... but when your true death comes, you will live again. The second life is simpler and sweeter, they say.
George R R Martin
#35. I'm convinced that the catastrophes of the next two decades will be so vast as to bring about a world where life, if it survives, will be far simpler - and the technologies, too. Then we will have come full circle to something like life on the savanna.
Kirkpatrick Sale
#36. It's simpler to live in a mindset of moving forward, than in a mindset of procrastination!
John Di Lemme
#37. Life would be a darned sight simpler if feelings were as easy to patch up as a piece of sailcloth.
Harry Haskell
#38. This document [the Reconstruction and Development Programme] was translated into a simpler manifesto called 'A Better Life for All', which in turn became the ANC's campaign slogan.
Nelson Mandela
#39. In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
Graham Greene
#40. People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.
Muriel Barbery
#41. Our central job is not to solve the world's problems. Our job is to draw our entire life from Christ and manifest that life to others. Nothing could be simpler - and nothing could be more challenging.
Gregory A. Boyd
#42. We're still family-owned, which keeps life a whole lot simpler. When my wife and kids and I decide to make a business move, we don't have to ask Wall Street about it.
David Green
#43. You can have a less chaotic, simpler life working with what you already have and transforming it into what you really need.
Sandy Kreps
#44. If I were gay, life would be a lot simpler. I'm kind of annoyed that I'm not.
Grace Slick
#45. If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.
Louis D. Brandeis