Top 95 Simpler Life Quotes
#1. I have learned that ...life is much simpler than ...one perceives
Monish Bhalla
#2. Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.
Terry Pratchett
#3. 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
#4. Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine
Lawrence Durrell
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black.
Nora Ephron
#9. It should surprise no one that modern soldiers return home just as conflicted and detached as previous generations. The difference is that in the age of vapid American decadence, their simpler fundamental values are largely irrelevant to we civilians.
Tiffany Madison
#10. All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better the simpler it is, and the rich, far-wandering, many-imaged life of the half-seen world beyond it
W.B.Yeats
#11. One must look at what is needed rather than what is wanted. This is the most critical point in making life easier and simpler - need versus want.
Glen Mizrahi
#12. 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
#13. Life would be so much simpler if guys were like mood rings, and they changed color when they liked you.
Melissa Kantor
#14. 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
#16. Tools that make life simpler ... tend to make life more hectic, and more prone to disruptions.
John-Talmage Mathis
#17. 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
#18. Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.
John Sununu
#19. Going back to a simpler life is not a step backwards.
Yvon Chouinard
#20. If we could choose who we love, our love lives would be much simpler. We could avoid heart ache and heart break. But is that what we want or what we need? As individuals we grow and learn by our mistakes, and some of the biggest mistakes in life revolve around the heart
Tatum Wells
#21. Men are frightful nuisances at times; how much simpler life would be if we women did not have to make allowances for their little peculiarities.
Elizabeth Peters
#22. Worrying about things you cannot control is folly. Focus only on those few things you have any control over, and your life becomes much simpler.
Jeffrey Fry
#23. The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.
Robert Schumann
#24. Life is much simpler if you don't notice anything ...
Tom Upton
#25. How much easier life would be if people were all black or all white and how much simpler it would be to act in regard to them!
W. Somerset Maugham
#26. If we all lived according to the teachings of Jesus Christ, life would be much simpler.
Chuck Palahniuk
#27. So often in life we agonize, we deliberate, and we beat ourselves up to carefully evaluate the reasons we should or should not do something. But usually it's so much simpler than that. If you have no other offers, take the one offer you have.
Kunal Nayyar
#29. It's simpler to live in a mindset of moving forward, than in a mindset of procrastination!
John Di Lemme
#30. 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
#31. Making your unknown known is the important thing - and keeping the unknown always beyond you - catching - crystalizing your simpler clearer vision of life - only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead - that you must always keep working to grasp ...
Georgia O'Keeffe
#32. I've spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn't reach the heart.
Hans Zimmer
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. Simple the life, simpler will be your instincts, the laws that govern universe will obey your simplicity.
Santosh Kalwar
#37. I looked at you and knew what was missing in my life. What I wanted in my life. I've never stopped loving you, Ren. I can't make it any simpler than that.
Maya Banks
#38. You know, life would be so much simpler if it weren't for all the people. ... People are overrated. I'm sure I would be able to deal with things much better if it weren't for them.
Katarina Bivald
#39. Our multiaccess approach will make the life of the customer simpler.
Jean-Marie Messier
#40. In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
Graham Greene
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. You can have a less chaotic, simpler life working with what you already have and transforming it into what you really need.
Sandy Kreps
#45. If I were gay, life would be a lot simpler. I'm kind of annoyed that I'm not.
Grace Slick
#46. To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.
Aziz Ansari
#47. Would be simpler
if English
and life
were logical
Thanhha Lai
#48. If life was simpler we wouldn't get lost in it
Clive Barker
#49. We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.
Freeman Thomas
#50. Life will be simpler when I don't spend two-thirds of the year in the middle of the Pacific.
Michael Emerson
#51. If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.
Louis D. Brandeis
#52. Life would be a darned sight simpler if feelings were as easy to patch up as a piece of sailcloth.
Harry Haskell
#53. 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
#55. The more you can remove the obstacles between you and the world as a woman, the easier and simpler life becomes.
Cate Blanchett
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. Self-discipline is crucial to a simpler, more contented life.
Dalai Lama
#61. 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
#62. And the reason I am the way I am is that I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is this: You fall down. You get up. That's it. It doesn't get any simpler than that.
Jose Canseco
#63. 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
#64. Just always be honest about your feelings. If everyone did that then the world would be a much simpler place.
Kiki Archer
#66. Managing time is an essential part of making life simpler. Time should be valued and treated as the limited resource it is. Through prioritizing and planning, time management becomes an integral part of day to day activities.
Susan Stovall
#67. Married life is a simpler life. Who I spend my time with is established in advance.
Bill Gates
#68. they have all been taught, possessiveness about our cozy corners and favorite toys isn't limited to cats and dogs. How we wish it were. Wouldn't life be simpler?
Margaret Atwood
#69. Life would be simpler if only we were all unicorns.
Olley White
#70. 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
#71. She was simpler, less fractured by life during her youth.
Philip Zaleski
#72. 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
#74. 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
#75. The stupidity of one's own colleagues makes life simpler.
Stephen King
#76. 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
#77. Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
Robert Orben
#78. Life would be much simpler if men could fuck themselves, don't you agree?
George R R Martin
#79. Logan had infiltrated enemy strongholds with less effort than he was expending to get this family tell him the complete truth ... Something was very wrong when war seemed so much simpler than his home life.
Cat Johnson
#80. The journey of growth, search for the secret has always been within, the simpler we make it, the better it gets.
Rob Martin
#81. Anyway, I think the two of you should be free to do whatever you want right now. When you're young, you think the only way to happiness is the hard road... but it's actually much simpler than that.
Inio Asano
#82. Standing beside you,
I took an oath
to make your life simpler
by complicating mine
and what I always thought
would happen did:
I was lifted up in joy.
David Ignatow
#83. Someone once said, 'God is simple, all else is complex.' The more attuned you become to God, the simpler and more beautiful your life becomes.
John Harricharan
#84. 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
#85. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Henry David Thoreau
#86. Many Years before without the New Technologies Life was more Peaceful and Simpler.
Jan Jansen
#87. 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
#88. The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else, would set our hearts at rest, and we would discover the simpler life,
the greater peace.
Elisabeth Elliot
#89. We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape.
Asa Gray
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Brittany M. Davis
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.
Albert Camus
#94. If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.
Fernando Pessoa
#95. 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
