Quotes About Simplicity

There are only four things in life that matter. The first is happiness and I'll sell you the other three for a dollar.

Do you want to know the secret of life? If you want to have everything, don't want anything. Everything will run after you.

I'm very comfortable discussing my personal life, because it's so boring.

To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind.

If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

I think people should maybe just go out into the garden and watch a ladybug crawl across a flower and relax their mind. That's about all you need to know about life, I think.

Country to me is living life at its simplest: Learning to appreciate a sliced vine-ripe tomato with a dash of salt, served between two slices of good bread and eaten over the kitchen sink.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.

The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.

Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense. Rather it is a basic condition which is always appropriate to a life that is lived aright.

Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.

A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.

You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.

Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.

Daily life shouldn't be a fashion show all the time.