Quotes About Simplicity

I really believe life is simple. It's all the other people that make things complicated.

In the never-ending battle between order and chaos, clutter sides with chaos every time. Anything that you possess that does not add to your life or your happiness eventually becomes a burden.

The best thing in life aren't things.

I have a way of life that I don't change just because I am a president. I earn more than I need, even if it's not enough for others. For me, it is no sacrifice, it's a duty.

If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.

When people live in accordance with Nature, the song of life becomes sweet.

Set up a life you don't need to escape from.

Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.

In my everyday life, I just wear jeans, t-shirts and trainers - if I can go barefoot, that's even better. But for the events I have a stylist, and in two hours we have selected a whole outfit.

The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death.

For the most part, biophiliacs,lovers of life, are found among simple people, without pretensions.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich.

Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.

Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.

I live a very low-key life.

But what I want most of all is a normal life.

Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives.

When I talk of reality, I am always thinking of essentials. Profundity is not located in some remote, inaccessible region. It is rooted in everyday life.

The real goal of Zen is to find a way of life that's easy and undramatic. Strong attachments lead to upset and drama.

Plain living and high thinking are no more.

The appreciation of life does not require wealth or plenty. It requires only gratitude for the beauty of the world.

I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else. I know that makes me a sap.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.