Quotes About Simplicity In Life

#1. Wisdom is not in intelligence but in simplicity.

Debasish Mridha

#2. Simplicity; it looks just adorable.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#3. I actually believe in simplicity as a way of life. My wife and I are considering moving into a yurt!

Joseph Monninger

#4. Greatness is in simplicity and in kindness, like Mother Theresa.

Debasish Mridha

#5. Joy is found in simple things.

Todd Stocker

#6. 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

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

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

Duane Elgin

#9. The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Jean Cocteau

#10. The key to finding a happy balance in modern life is simplicity.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#11. Then on your tombstone, where you only get a little bit of space to sum up your life, some wax-faced creep chisels a set of meaningless numbers instead of poetry or a secret love or the name of your favorite candy.
In the end, all you get is a few words.

Scott Nicholson

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

Nikki Rowe

#13. Beauty lies in simplicity.

Abhijit Naskar

#14. In normal life, "simplicity" is synonymous with "easy to do," but when a chef uses the word, it means "takes a lifetime to learn.

Bill Buford

#15. Reality is infinitely complex, yet it is designed to experience in simplicity.

Guy Lozier

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

Victor Hugo

#17. James Taylor is the kind of person I always thought the word 'folksinger' referred to. He writes and sings songs that are reflections of his own life, and performs in them in his own style. All of his performances are marked by an eloquent simplicity.

Jon Landau

#18. The rose has told
In one simplicity
That never life
Relinquishes a bloom
But to bestow
An ancient confidence.

Nathalia Crane

#19. softly spoken apology for this detour in my life was powerful in its simplicity.

Vikki Claflin

#20. When I started to live in simplicity my life became peaceful, joyful, and blissful.

Debasish Mridha

#21. Advent is the season of the secret, the secret of the growth of Christ, of divine love growing in silence ... For nine months, Christ grew in his mother's body. By his own will, she formed him from herself, from the simplicity of her daily life.

Caryll Houselander

#22. Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a few things of a grandeur not fit for us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#23. Such is the irony of life on earth; that living in extreme simplicity free from indulgence turns this persecuted Middle Eastern fatherless carpenter, into the definition of vivacity, and one of the most recognized names in the world.

Sayed Mahdi Modarresi

#24. The value of this book lies in its heartfelt simplicity.

Jason E. Royle

#25. Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live in comfort.

Philip Yancey

#26. Certain environments, certain modes of life, and certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification is one of them.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#27. To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now.

Don Altman

#28. I may not be much, but I'm all I think about.

Annie Lamott

#29. Narrow life down to what's precious and necessary. In a world of complexity the best weapon is simplicity.

Price Pritchett

#30. We all shuffle our own deck in life ... The deck is our brain, the cards are our thoughts, the results we get will determine if we are giving ourselves a fair deal. Do you have an authentic dealer?

Michael Levy

#31. Yet simplicity has been difficult to implement in modern life because it is against the spirit of a certain brand of people who seek sophistication so they can justify their profession.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#32. How can you tell a story with one frame that, by its simplicity, manages to tell a story, a gag that evokes an emotion in you? That became my motto throughout all my life. Simplicity.

Pierre Coffin

#33. When we have simplicity we have so much more freedom in every single aspect of our lives. Maybe it's a classic case of less is more? Less stress, less worries, more time, more happiness.

Evan Sutter

#34. Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.
I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.

Langston Hughes

#35. When the natural power of vision is devoted to the Holy Spirit, it becomes the power of perceiving God's will and the whole life is kept in simplicity.

Oswald Chambers

#36. Love does not envy, does not boast, does not delight in evil but rejoice in truth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#37. Beauty is not in complexity but it's in simplicity.

Debasish Mridha

#38. You render the small vast and few many,
use integrity to repay hatred,
see the complexity in simplicity,
find the vast in the minute.

Lao-Tzu

#39. The point of simplicity is not efficiency, increased productivity or even living a healthier, more relaxed life. The point is making space for treasuring God's own self.

Jan Johnson

#40. Poverty's simplicity has an inexpensive beauty rooted in it, which the rich can never afford to buy

Munia Khan

#41. For a child, it is in the simplicity of play that the complexity of life is sorted like puzzle pieces joined together to make sense of the world.

L.R. Knost

#42. 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

#43. Simplicity of living means meeting life face to face. It means confronting life clearly, without unnecessary distractions. It means being direct and honest in relationships of all kinds. It means taking life as it is.

Duane Elgin

#44. The life that intends to be wholly obedient, wholly submissive, wholly listening, is astonishing in its completeness. Its joys are ravishing, its peace profound, its humility the deepest, its power world-shaking, its love enveloping, its simplicity that of a trusting child.

Thomas Raymond Kelly

#45. Happiness lies in simplicity
Complexity brings anxiety.

Debasish Mridha

#46. 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

#47. They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. A contemplative is not one who takes his prayer seriously, but one who takes God seriously, who is famished for truth, who seeks to live in generous simplicity, in the spirit. An ardent and sincere humility is the best protection for his life of prayer.

Thomas Merton

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. I don't believe in a lot of baggage. It's such a nuisance. Life's too short to fuss with it. And it isn't really necessary

Hugh Lofting

#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. Your life is far too valuable to be wasted on the life that everyone else is choosing.

Joshua Becker

#57. To feel the joy of life, sell your pride and get lost in the simplicity and humility.

Debasish Mridha

#58. The life of Christ was a life of humble simplicity, yet how infinitely exalted was his mission. Christ is our example in all things.

Ellen G. White

#59. In fact, children are capable of understanding some things in early life, which we hardly understand afterwards. Children have eminently a simplicity of faith, and simplicity of faith is akin to the highest knowledge;

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#60. don't ever allocate necessary time for unnecessary things. Understand what time it is to do what it is

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

Baba Tunde Ojo-Olubiyo

#62. Life is a contradiction. Minimalism and in its simplicity opens the door to complicated analysis not just to dust free spaces.

Rohan Chalmers

#63. 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

#64. Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity.

Charles Bukowski

#65. If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Rhian J. Martin

#67. No longer in print ... There are sentences, and phrases that, in all their simplicity, say much more than they seem to at first: two months to live, never heard of it, dead on arrival ... For a writer, no longer in print must fall somewhere in that category.

Herman Koch

#68. Best things in life aren't things.

Mike Ness

#69. Beauty is in the holiness of the heart and in the simplicity of mind.

Debasish Mridha

#70. [Tea-masters] have given emphasis to our natural love of simplicity, and shown us the beauty of humility. In fact, through their teachings tea has entered the life of the people.

Okakura Kakuzo

#71. If you have clutter in your real life, your tangible life, then it really adds to the emotional clutter in your mind.

Giuliana Rancic

#72. The best things in life are not only free, but the line is shorter.

Robert Breault

#73. 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

#74. 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

#75. Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

Lin Yutang

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

Debasish Mridha

#77. The first step in crafting the life you want is to get rid of everything you don't.

Joshua Becker

#78. The Consul felt a pang. Ah, to have a horse, and gallop away, singing, to someone you loved perhaps, into the heart of all the simplicity and peace in the world; was that not like the opportunity afforded man by life itself? Of course not. Still, just for a moment, it had seemed that it was.

Malcolm Lowry

#79. There's no seduction any more, diary. No subtlety. No tidy-yourself-up in this world. No need for personal pride. There's just the things you're prepared to do - for survival, for fulfillment, for whatever-the-hell-it-is you really need - and the things you're not.

Simon Spurrier

#80. 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

#81. For me, the release was a spot in time with no past and no future. Just the extraordinary simplicity of a moment - the kind of moment that has a funny way of making a person believe that life and love can last forever.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#82. This scroll, majestic in its severe simplicity, illuminated a little slip of front garden abutting on the thirsty high-road, where a few of the dustiest of leaves hung their dismal heads and led a life of choking.

Charles Dickens

#83. We two make banquets of the plainest fare
In every cup we find the thrill of pleasure ...
For us life always moves with lilting measure
We two, we two, we make our world, our pleasure

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#84. The measure of greatness is in humility, simplicity, and in kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#85. As frightening as it seems to live without long-term memory, a part of us all can understand how liberating it might be to always experience life as it is right now, in the simplicity of a world bounded by thirty seconds.

Suzanne Corkin

#86. Life has its beauty in its simplicity.
Ugliness raises her head with complexity.

Debasish Mridha

#87. They learned to live contently with small things, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy not respectable, and to be rich not wealthy. They let the sacred and unconscious bloom amidst the common, rendering it all extraordinary.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

#88. Your love in a cottage is hungry,
Your vine is a nest for flies-
Your milkmaid shocks the Graces,
And simplicity talks of pies!
You lie down to your shady slumber
And wake with a bug in your ear,
And your damsel that walks in the morning
Is shod like a mountaineer.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

#89. Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.

Vincent Van Gogh

#90. Useless and precious objects. Taking up space. Taking up time.

Maira Kalman

#91. Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.

Satish Kumar

#92. What was life like ?
deprivation and abundance, side by side like a miracle. surrender to them both .
Poverty and sunshine, poverty and jewels in the sky .
Drought and the gushing Nile
Disease and clean hearts, stories from neighbours and relationships .

Leila Aboulela

#93. When we focus on people and life instead of material possessions and mere wants, there's not much room for emotional hand-wringing. Instead, there's more space to weigh what we value in our lives and to acknowledge what really counts. Chapter 9 Simplicity Laura Ingalls in The Long Winter

Erin Blakemore

#94. 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

#95. 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

#96. Less is more. Simplicity is awesome. That's all you need in life. Its just my personal philosophy.

G-Eazy

#97. Go in all simplicity; do not be anxious to win a quiet mind, and it will be all the quieter. Do not examine so closely into the progress of your soul. Do not crave too much to be perfect, but let your spiritual life beformed by your duties, and by the actions which are called forth by circumstances.

Saint Francis De Sales

#98. All the evil in the world comes from us bothering with each other,
Wanting to do good, wanting to do evil.
Our soul and the sky and the earth are enough for us.
To want more is to lose this, and be unhappy.

Alberto Caeiro

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#100. 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