Quotes About Simple Life Simplicity

#1. Live a simple life, doing what you love.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#2. Joy is found in simple things.

Todd Stocker

#3. We never learn to value what is simple; what is difficult is worthy to us. But, the beauty of life is in the simplicity.

Debasish Mridha

#4. Not all things that are simple are all that simple. Certain simple things carry complex weight!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#5. Everything seems simpler from a distance.

Gail Tsukiyama

#6. Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#7. Do you want to be happy?
Then make your life as soulfully simple
As sleeplessly breathing.

Sri Chinmoy

#8. The simplicity that all this presupposes is not easy to attain. I find that my life constantly threatens to become complex and divisive. A life of prayer is basically a very simple life. This simplicity, however, is the result of asceticism and effort: it is not a spontaneous simplicity.

Thomas Merton

#9. To me, voluntary simplicity means integration and awareness in my life.

Duane Elgin

#10. Contentment is joy of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. Just dabbing pieces of my heart into things that make me shine, my little young simple life.

Nikki Rowe

#12. A simple man will have only what he needs, and he will know the difference between what he needs and what he wants. We feel that whatever we want, we desperately need. But before we possess the world, to our wide surprise we see that the world has already possessed us.

Sri Chinmoy

#13. We ought to compliment and not to compete with one another.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

Victor Hugo

#15. Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

Ezra Pound

#16. The question is: do you want suffering or do you want peace? It's that simple.

Donna Goddard

#17. Simple works, complex fails.

Timothy Ferriss

#18. The simple rhythms of nature are calling you. Let them wash away the clutter and distractions from your false life.

Bryant McGill

#19. Life was created simple and it is important to live it as such. Simplicity is inherent; it leads to peace of mind and tranquility.

Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

#20. Real luxury is not working like a maniac to take an expensive vacation--it is living a life you enjoy every day.

Kathy Gottberg

#21. Sounds simple, doesn't it, this notion of simplicity? Simple things done simply by a simple person. But it's not as simple as it seems.

Fennel Hudson

#22. Penny knew also she loved the country for its beauty. Cities could be magnificent, astounding, fantastic, but they were not consistently beautiful and simple. Penny liked uncomplicated beauty.

Dorothy Deming

#23. What have I to prove, and to whom, and why? I'm keen enough to want nothing more than to live a simple, humble, unfettered life.

Donna Lynn Hope

#24. The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, 'Seek simplicity and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

#25. When we are able to do something so easily, we regard such thing as simplicity; but simplicity is complexity. Withing the things which are simple lay the things which are complex and within the things which are complex, lay the things which are simple

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#26. A simple statement of Jesus is always a puzzle to us if we are not simple. How are we going to be simple with the simplicity of Jesus? By receiving His Spirit, recognising and relying on Him, obeying Him as He brings the word of God, and life will become amazingly simple.

Oswald Chambers

#27. While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life.

Brennan Manning

#28. We must not only aim to make a living but to live life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#29. Our main purpose of life is to be happy. Happiness is in simplicity, and the most amazing things about life is that it is so simple.

Debasish Mridha

#30. Minimalism is the constant art of editing your life.

Danny Dover

#31. It's simple, it's not that simple; or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does not understand it, he tends to inflate it. When he does, he tends to deflate it. In the end, neither images are fully accurate.

Criss Jami

#32. A beautiful sidenote is, once the toxins and dramas are removed, you purify your life. Simplify and purify. What better way to live your life? Simple and pure!

Tony Curl

#33. To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all our lives be simplified merely, like an algebraic formula? Or not, rather, that I may make use of the ground I have cleared to live more worthily and profitably?

Henry David Thoreau

#34. You don't need much to give. Give what you have.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#35. Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Confucius

#36. Poverty is mean and degrading to the human spirit, whereas a life of conscious simplicity can have both a beauty and a functional integrity that elevates the human spirit.

Duane Elgin

#37. When you have enough, there is no need for excessiveness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#38. I love a life whose plot is simple.

Henry David Thoreau

#39. Life can be simple, it ain't easy. So don't take the easy option. Challenge the resistance, challenge yourself, become great

Tony Curl

#40. Simplicity is the heart of everything. If you look to the desert, apparently the desert is very simple but it's full of life, it's full of hidden places and the beauty is that it looks simple but it's complex in the way that it expresses the soul of the world or God.

Paulo Coelho

#41. I used to hammer away at the idea of simplicity.
In both fiction and non-fiction, there's only one question and one answer. 'What happened?' the reader asks. 'This is what happened,' the writer responds. 'This ... and this ... and this, too.' Keep it simple. It's the only sure way home.

Stephen King

#42. I believe that one day we'll understand that we've lost out on religion because we made it too lofty and distant. I see it as a simple quality of everyday life, and in that simplicity lie its beauty and importance.

Thomas Moore

#43. Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.

Grace Murray Hopper

#44. Simplicity shall make you simple and keep you away from so many woes of life! It is simple! Just go for simplicity and be simple, Period!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#45. Every day offers us simple gifts when we are willing to search our hearts for the place that's right for each of us. (January 15)

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#46. Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.

Albert Einstein

#47. Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty.

Mahlon Hoagland

#48. I want a simple, ordinary life ... like humans enjoy.

Deborah Harkness

#49. Simplicity has power. Founding our life on constructive, positive behavior is the simplest, most direct, and powerful approach I've ever found-simple, but not easy.

Dan Millman

#50. Once you start trying to make life simple, it's not simple anymore.

Marty Rubin

#51. A Godly Person Is Living Simple And Yet Happy
An Ungodly Person Is Living Luxuriously And Yet So Sad

Baba Tunde Ojo-Olubiyo

#52. No one is as simple as they may seem to be.

Lik Hock Yap

#53. Life Is 'Simple' By Nature...
The deeper you try to study, the more you complicate it.
Just believe in it's simplicity & it shall show you it is
far too Simple actually!

Sujit Lalwani

#54. Life is simple if simplicity is your passion.

Debasish Mridha

#55. If they want me to have mysticism, okay, I've got it.
I'm a mystic, but only in my body,
My soul is simple and doesn't think.

Alberto Caeiro

#56. The life of less, one bent on simplicity, and not needing or wanting anything other than what God has deemed good for you turns out to be all you could ever need or want.

Hayley DiMarco

#57. Thankfulness is the life of contentment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#58. Such was the cyclical nature of Galway life: finding tragedy in the simple things and simplicity in the tragic things.

Rhian J. Martin

#59. It's hard to combine a simple life with a love of aesthetics.

Marty Rubin

#60. Life for my child is simple, and is good.

Gwendolyn Brooks

#61. The Simple Life is not a simple life.

Mason Cooley

#62. Five Life Standards of Voluntary Simplicity
Do Justice
Learn from the World Community
Nurture People
Cherish the Natural Order
Non-Conform Freely.

Doris Janzen Longacre

#63. No matter where you are, keep your life simple - that is all I am saying. Remember, a rich man is not the one who has the most, but one who desires the least.

Samina Ali

#64. If I have done anything, even a little, to help small children enjoy honest, simple pleasures, I have done a bit of good.

Beatrix Potter

#65. Cleverness is egocentric, dramatic, gives you an illusion of success. We are always running behind it and ultimately suffer. Whereas simplicity is spiritual, blissful, not dramatic, simple but joyful and gives inner peace. Which is our ultimate goal.

Debasish Mridha

#66. It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town ... he can walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety.

Henry David Thoreau

#67. Joshua chose the simple life ... because it gave him the freedom to expand the breadth of his inner life.

Joseph Girzone

#68. It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#69. To be happy without your wants is greatest contentment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#70. My life is very simple. I like simplicity and for my time to be my own, so that I have the freedom to devote the majority of it to Islam.

Hakeem Olajuwon

#71. Simple the life, simpler will be your instincts, the laws that govern universe will obey your simplicity.

Santosh Kalwar

#72. While the lake lapped at their feet and the mountains absorbed their calls and the sky flung its blue parachute over their heads, he thought how wonderful it was that life was, after all, more simple than he had ever imagined.

Helen Simonson

#73. In an age of complexity, it is not easy to live a simple life or to practice simplicity.

Debasish Mridha

#74. The more we understand the simplicity of life, the less complex we shall live.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#75. There are many reasons to be simple. It's simply to learn effectively, to work positively, to communicate actively and to live successfully.

Dee Dee Artner

#76. The point of simple living, for me has got to be:
A soft place to land
A wide margin of error
Room to breathe
Lots of places to find baseline happiness in each and every day

Leo Babauta

#77. If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in the charkha, I do so because I know that without an intelligent return to simplicity, there is no escape from our d.

Mahatma Gandhi

#78. Life is simple. You just have to stop trying to figure it out.

Marty Rubin

#79. From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#80. Life was so simple for a dog. Eat. Walk. Dump. Nap. Eat. Dump. Sleep. And then do it all over again the next day. There was beauty in simplicity.

Susan C. Daffron

#81. In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple form for all of life's necessities, which is at the same time respectable and genuine.

Oskar Schlemmer

#82. It was as simple as that - they met. As simple as only beautiful things can be beautiful, as only life-changing things, turning-point things, can be simple.
("For The Rest Of Her Life")

Cornell Woolrich

#83. I am a worried person with a stressed out soul, living a simple life with no capital.

Charlotte Eriksson

#84. And even childhood was no good any more - not the way it was. No worry then but how to find a good stone, not round exactly but flattened and water-shaped, to use in a sling pouch cut from a discarded shoe. Where did all the good stones go, and all simplicity?

John Steinbeck

#85. Rich or poor, the same breath of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita