Quotes About Simplicity

I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting.

There is nothing difficult, there is nothing complicated, only one has to have a desire to have a better quality of life.

There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.

I've got an air mattress for a bed...really living the high life.

You either have faith or fear, not both. Things, they think, generate fear. The more things you have, the more you have to fear. Eventually you are living your life for things.

By taking the time to live life in the slow lane, we quickly experience a deeper, more profound experience of contentment.

The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.

I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do.

"I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher." That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.

Life is a straight drink - straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.

Knowing what I know now and what I have been through, would I do it the same? I look at the alternative - a very simple life. It would have been nice to have a simple life.

The minute you stop expecting life to be simple, fair and easy... it becomes simple, fair and easy.

Look at life with the eyes of a child.

High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

Just opening quietly for moments everyday can create a path by which life can reach us, the way rain carves a little stream in the earth by which the smallest flowers are watered.

Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life.

Life is full of beauty. Notice it.

I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.

The simple things in life ground me and keep me focused so Im able to do a good job with what is in front of me.

My life can be insanely complicated sometimes, and there's a certain simplicity that I crave.

Nurture the spontaneous peaceful life.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.

To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?