When Life Was Simpler Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Life is much simpler if you don't notice anything ...

Tom Upton

#6. 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

#7. If we all lived according to the teachings of Jesus Christ, life would be much simpler.

Chuck Palahniuk

#8. 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

#9. Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated.

Charlaine Harris

#10. It's simpler to live in a mindset of moving forward, than in a mindset of procrastination!

John Di Lemme

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. I've spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn't reach the heart.

Hans Zimmer

#14. I'll say life is simpler.

Jayson Williams

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

Robert Orben

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.

Terry Pratchett

#22. 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

#23. Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine

Lawrence Durrell

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black.

Nora Ephron

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. I have learned that ...life is much simpler than ...one perceives

Monish Bhalla

#31. 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

#32. Life would be so much simpler if guys were like mood rings, and they changed color when they liked you.

Melissa Kantor

#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

#34. Seek a slower, simpler life.

Fennel Hudson

#35. Tools that make life simpler ... tend to make life more hectic, and more prone to disruptions.

John-Talmage Mathis

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. Going back to a simpler life is not a step backwards.

Yvon Chouinard