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Quotes About Simplicity

You get lost because you think there is somewhere to go. If you give up believing in a goal or a destination, then you cannot get lost. In the present moment, there is no destination.
~ Leonard Jacobson
I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
~ Barbara Kruger
There's a movement for simplifying your life: purchase less stuff, own a few things that are very high quality that last a long time, and that are multifunctional.
~ Yvon Chouinard
I was happier before, when I lead a normal life.
~ Enrique Iglesias
Live simply so others may simply live.
~ Mother Teresa
There' something about universal truths with the simplicity of the acoustic guitar. You can take it anywhere and it helps me reach listeners of all ages and walks of life.
~ Jim Croce
Make it simple to last your whole life long. Don't worry that it's not enough for anyone else to hear. Just sing, sing a song
~ Karen Carpenter
People think life is real complicated. Actually, there's nothing to it. Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple.
~ George Carlin
Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.
~ Julian Barnes
Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
~ Bertrand Russell
I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
~ Daniel Berrigan
Being prime minister isn't the only job in life! As far as I'm concerned, I could live in a village and be satisfied.
~ Indira Gandhi
Take time to smell the roses. Appreciating the little things in life really can make all the difference.
~ Andy Puddicombe
I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.
~ Althea Gibson
If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation.
~ Haruki Murakami
White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
~ James Joyce
If I had my life to live over, I'd have fewer meetings and more rendezvous.
~ Robert Breault
Life is too short so we must generalize.
~ Gordon Allport
Live a sincere life; be natural, and be honest with yourself.
~ Meher Baba
It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.
~ Freya Stark
True consecration to Christ simplifies life, for it leaves the management to Him.
~ J. Sidlow Baxter
I'm usually just enjoying life.
~ Alan Jackson