Simple Things Life Quotes

#1. To me, obstacles in life build character. You have to be able to overcome adversity in order to succeed and appreciate the simple things life has to offer ... that's where most of my inspiration for writing and singing comes from.

Elliott Yamin

#2. What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us.

Robert Breault

#3. Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

Carl Jung

#4. Joy is found in the simple and ordinary things of life: the smile of a newborn baby, the kiss from a sweet new puppy, and the warm sunshine on a spring day.

Marie Cornelio

#5. The simple things in life ground me and keep me focused so I'm able to do a good job with what is in front of me.

Kevin Eubanks

#6. The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For ...
things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.

Woodrow Wilson

#7. It seems so simple now, but it took me a long time to figure out that happiness is experienced when we finally give ourselves permission to let go of the things that make us sad.

Steve Maraboli

#8. Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, kill nothing but time.

Aliyyah Eniath

#9. Things were not so simple after all. She could not understand even her own feelings. She saw the most cherished of her convictions put into practice - and her eyes filled with tears. She had won fame and independence and the right to live her own life - and she wanted something different.

Virginia Woolf

#10. I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name
My name is my own my own my own
and I can't tell you who the hell set things up like this
but I can tell you that from now on my resistance
my simple and daily and nightly self-determination
may very well cost you your life

June Jordan

#11. If above all things we would taste God, and feel eternal life in ourselves, we must go forth into God with our feeling, above reason; and there we must abide, onefold, empty of ourselves, and free from images, lifted up by love into the simple bareness of our intelligence.

John Of Ruysbroeck

#12. Even thought you can't see it, my son, things are changing. Things ALWAYS change, given enough time and pressure. The very thought of that is scary to some, but change is absolutely nothing to be afraid of. It is a simple fact of life.

EXO Books

#13. We bring champagne to Franklin and Jeffrey, and I offer a final toast, 'Wishing you all good things in your life together.' Short, simple, to the point.
I look at Meredith, relaxed in her ivory gown, my sister is all grown up. I'm grateful we did our growing up together.

Steven Rowley

#14. Nothing in my life had prepared me to see things that were strange or beyond belief. I was a simple kid in a simple town in a simple family. But what I saw then, right after the collapse of the woman, ripped the "simple" out of my understanding of the rules of the world, and changed my life forever.

James Dashner

#15. I think a lot of the guys I know and a lot of people I've talked to, what they want is very often what most people want, a kind of simple life, a livelihood, a family, people who care about them, people they can care about. I think vets on the whole want the same things that everybody else does.

Kevin Powers

#16. A wise person explains complex things in simple way. An intelligent person explains simple things in complex way.

Debasish Mridha

#17. To get at the core of God at his greatest, one must first get to the core of himself at his least, for no one can know God who has not first known himself. This core is a simple stillness, which is unmoved itself but by whose immobility all things are moved and all receive life.

Meister Eckhart

#18. I don't know why it so happens in life that one absolutely can't do something simple but important.

Sasha Sokolov

#19. The simple things done consistently will produce the greatest results in your life.

Doug Addison

#20. ...there are often many things we feel we should do that, in fact, we don't really have to do. Getting to the point where we can tell the difference is a major milestone in the simplification process.

Elaine St. James

#21. Life is sometimes very complicated, but we can purposely learn to enjoy the simple yet powerful and beautiful things God has created!

Joyce Meyer

#22. I wish functions of MS Office suite worked on Life, and things were as simple as pressing "Ctrl + Z" to undo the accident that changed everything

Rajat Mishra

#23. What makes life complicated is the things that are on me and it is very hard to keep things simple. I see it as I am complicated and there is innocence to this.

Klaus Nomi

#24. Things can be very complicated; make them simple in your mind and they will be simple in real life as well!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#25. There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads. My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home. I'm not allowed to get a big head; I've still got to do the simple things in life.

Queen Latifah

#26. People may ask "why do you laugh at simple things?" Tell them that why don't you? Life is too short to make it so miserable.

Kenneth De Guzman

#27. No matter who you are it's the simple things in life that lead you to believe that you can achieve anything.

Ronaldinho

#28. If you have your health, if you have people in your life to love, you are blessed. Slow down and enjoy the simple things in life.

Joel Osteen

#29. We always hope for the easy fix: the one simple change that will erase a problem in a stroke. But few things in life work this way. Instead, success requires making a hundred small steps go right - one after the other, no slipups, no goofs, everyone pitching in.

Atul Gawande

#30. Sometimes it was daunting, knowing how easily I could break things. This one simple curse seemed to dominate my entire life.

Brandon Sanderson

#31. This is the middle.
Things have had time to get complicated,
messy, really. Nothing is simple anymore ...
This is the thick of things.
So much is crowded into the middle
... too much to name, too much to think about.

Billy Collins

#32. Of all the things I had learned in my life, nothing was so simple as fanatics imagined.

Carol Berg

#33. If I can't read, if I can't make a simple Indian pudding, then I don't see the point in living much more, really. Because aside from a good book, and perhaps, a fresh morning in a dew-covered garden, few things in life give me as much pleasure as magic of making a truly spectacular dessert.

Sarah Strohmeyer

#34. Happiness is a simple game of lost and found: Lose the things you take for granted, and you will feel great happiness once they are found.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#35. Such were the shepherds of Judea! In appearance, rough and savage as the gaunt dogs with them around the blaze; in fact, simple-minded, tender-hearted; effects in due, in part, to the primitive life they led, but chiefly to their constant care of things lovable and helpless.

Lew Wallace

#36. It's the simple things in life that comprise the difference between existing and living.
(from blog post on October 26, 2013, original content)

Cora Carmack

#37. The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#38. I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; ...

Paulo Coelho

#39. 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

#40. I grew up around people that enjoyed life day to day and found pleasure in simple things.

Josh Turner

#41. they should invent a car that stays cool inside when it is parked

R.L. Stine

#42. Mindfulness and awareness will allow you to participate in your life rather than only reacting to life. Through practicing mindfulness, you can begin to enjoy the simple things in life that have been lost in the clutter.

Bryant McGill

#43. Most things in my life are anything but simple
but loving you is. I just do.

Cassandra Giovanni

#44. Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world ...

E.A. Bucchianeri

#45. That's how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have. (Cassia Reyes)

Ally Condie

#46. Amidst the rush and confusion of modern life something old and wise is trying to catch up with us. Whereas simple knowledge tends to divide things, genuine wisdom tends to make meaningful unity possible.

Michael Meade

#47. What I know is, you have a better chance in life-of surviving it-if you tolerate loss well;manage not to be a cynic through it all; ...
to connect the unequal things into a whole that preserves the good,even if the good is not simple to find. We try, as my sister said. We try.

Richard Ford

#48. 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

#49. That's why I named my bakery Flour. It's a reminder that in baking, as in life, simple things are best.

Joanne Chang

#50. That's what I love about Aibileen, she can take the most complicated things in life and wrap them up so small and simple, they'll fit right in your pocket.

Kathryn Stockett

#51. I love to be alone with life. I love to study simple things: the light as it filters in a window; the music of a room full of people chatting; a horizon.

Jewel

#52. I just love Bayonne. I love the parks. I love the pizzerias. I love the simple things in life, and it's all here.

Tammy Blanchard

#53. Ignoring phone calls leads to a simple life with more free time. Ignoring emails works well also! I do both when I am trying to get things done.

Steven Magee

#54. Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme ... they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.

Philip Levine

#55. I knew lots of Irish ladies in my life who would say daft things and then would just say something incredibly truthful in a very simple way with simple language - a few well chosen words that would take an intellectual five minutes to express. I like that.

Steve Coogan

#56. Misfortune can force you into doing things you should be doing anyway. Lessons come from adversity. Anything can happen to anyone ... You can find a new lease on life - more meaning than you thought possible in simple things ... Let go. Live in the moment. Go forward.

Christopher Reeve

#57. 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

#58. Hurrah for Peace, Frenchy, and the simple life! Where a man can live comfortably and runs no danger of being killed for things he doesn't understand - there is his real homeland!

Vicente Blasco Ibanez

#59. I don't believe in fairies floating around, and I don't believe in telepathy, but there are things I want to say that just simple real-life stories don't let me say.

Isobelle Carmody

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

Lara Zielin

#61. The best things in life are simple, abundant, and free.

Debasish Mridha

#62. When we look at things as simple as food, it's not about just nourishment and sustaining our life, it is really the seed of our ancestor.

Maya Tiwari

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

Rhian J. Martin

#64. The simple things in life make me very happy.

Samantha Fox

#65. In the end, what affects your life most deeply are things too simple to talk about.

Nell Blaine

#66. Like drinking a cup of tea, all the simple things in life are the real things that make us happy!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#67. One very important key to maintaining our daily sanity is a simple scheduling tactic I call Putting Things the Hell Off.

Ian Frazier

#68. Happy is the person who has learned the secret of being content with whatever life brings him, and has learned to rejoice in the
simple and beautiful things around him.

Billy Graham

#69. Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

Jack Kornfield

#70. I hope these simple things are what I forever love about life, for then I will be happy no matter where I find myself.

R. YS Perez

#71. My life is not that glamorous. I actually live a pretty simple life, really. I just work. I don't have time to do all these glamorous things. I just do my thing, just work.

Olga Kurylenko

#72. Simple things bring infinite pleasure. Yet, it takes us a while to realize that. But once simple is in, complex it out - forever.

Joan Marques

#73. all the things we think are important really aren't, and he had no time to think about the things that really are. His whole life was going by and he had never contemplated the big, simple truths: loneliness and longing, desire and death.

Amos Oz

#74. I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#75. We try to stick pretty close to what our goals are and what we believe and what we enjoy doing in life - just simple things.

Priscilla Chan

#76. I prefer simple things - monotone melodies repeating the same things all the time. Because I think life is like that.

Rokia Traore

#77. It's the simple things in life that matter.

Andy Weir

#78. 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

#79. In normal life people say, 'You're so different than on stage!' Offstage I'm down to earth, simple and a very goofy girl ... I like to make goofy faces, be dorky and not take things too seriously. I just love to laugh.

Nicole Scherzinger

#80. True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven.

Frederick Buechner

#81. That's what History teaches us, I think, that life goes on, even though individuals die and whole civilizations crumble away: The simple things last; they are repeated over and over by each generation.

Philip Reeve

#82. Rejoice in every aspect of life - big or small. Let nothing pass you by. Appreciate everything - whether it is perceived as good or bad. You have the power to turn any experience into a pleasurable one. Challenge your preconceptions and luxuriate in the simple things of life.

Jennifer L. Scott

#83. Let's be simple and calm,
Like brooks and trees,
And God will love us by making
Beautiful things like the trees and brooks for us,
And give us greenness in his spring,
And a river for us to go to when we end...

Alberto Caeiro

#84. The more things we accumulate, the more cluttered our lives become, and the more stressed we feel as we are compelled to think about them. Life is about people not about things.

Natalie Vellacott

#85. When there's a history between people, it makes for some serious complications - even in something seemingly as simple as friendship. There is no real starting over. There's only trying to minimize the importance of things in the past. And some events are just too life altering to trivialize.

Megan Thomason

#86. There are so many simple things getting unnoticed in me, it makes me feel I am a robot!

Vikram Roy

#87. Kindness can come from someone on Twitter, it can come from someone on the street, it can come from someone at work. Without kindness, I don't know what I would do. The greatest part of life is the simple things.

Andie MacDowell

#88. [Be grateful for the simple things in life. Don't take them for granted. After all ... ] What would a blind man give to see the pleasant rivers and meadows and flowers and fountains; and this and many other like blessings we enjoy daily.

Izaak Walton

#89. I really believe life is simple. It's all the other people that make things complicated.

Richard M. Nixon

#90. Be thankful for the simple things and God's love and you will never be disappointed when life gets hard.

Phil Mitchell

#91. I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.

Sidney Poitier

#92. I know what the important things are in life. I know that just because I pretend to be someone else for two hours on the silver screen doesn't make me a better person than the next man. So, I mind all those things. Simple things.

Colin Farrell

#93. Happy people tend to be those who take pleasure in simple things.

Auliq Ice

#94. So far as he was concerned, this had been a bang-up night. Dynamite, a nice brawl, free brandy, and getting to scare the piss out of someone. It was the simple things that made his life worth living.

Brandon Sanderson

#95. Simple things relieve eyes; simple things ease mind, simple things create meditation, simple things are simply miraculous!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#96. Happiness, after all, is found in the simplest of things.

Steve Maraboli

#97. Life is simple. Make good decisions and good things happen. Make bad decisions and bad things happen.

Dick Vitale

#98. Things always appear clear and simple from behind glass. It is in the thick of tribulations that blurring details arise, complicating my life. You can't rightly judge me, nor can you assist, from a shielded viewpoint.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#99. I dig the toe of my shoe into the dirt. "It's complicated."
"Is it? Most complicated things in life are actually pretty simple at the core. We put so much extra nonsense in the middle that we can't even see how easy it really is.

Emery Lord

#100. learned that life is as simple or as complicated as you make it. I had chosen to simplify my life to include only the best things: my family, friends, and the mountains.

Jeff Alt