Quotes About Simplicity

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

A farmer once told me one of the greatest luxuries of his life was to wake up early only to go back to sleep again.

The life of Christ was a life of humble simplicity, yet how infinitely exalted was his mission. Christ is our example in all things.

Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.

That my complicated life could be made so simple was astounding.

The life and simple beauty of it is too good to pass up

I avoid social networks and I try to live a very normal, simple life. I love spending time and hang out with my friends any time I can. I like a very simple life.

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.

Man must be able to escape civilization if he is to survive. Some of his greatest needs are for refuges and retreats where he can recapture for a day or a week the primitive conditions of life.

A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.

Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.

Design, vitalized and simplified, will make the comforts of civilized life available to an ever-increasing number of Americans.

We do not think of life - we live it. We do not think of ourselves too much. We do not think of others too much... We just behave in a natural way.

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle - even if he can afford more.

A good rule in life is to tell yourself simply, 'What comes of itself, let it come.

Beautiful things don't ask for attention.

Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come.

But I'm very happy with my life the way it has been turning out. A little time in the country, a little time with the animals and working on behalf of them.

The sweetness of life lies in dispensing with formalities.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate.

Life is simple unless we find a way to make it complicated.

Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

I'd give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life's decay, To be once more a little child for one bright summer day.