Quotes About Simplicity

A middling talent makes for a more serene life.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

Being clear of clutter is one of the greatest aids I know to discovering and manifesting the life you want.

A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone.

What makes life complicated is the things that are on me and it is very hard to keep things simple. I see it as I am complicated and there is innocence to this.

Children, we should simplify our life's needs and use the resulting savings for charity.

To be able to do one thing at a time is the whole art of life.

Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice.

Life truly is a journey, and the less baggage we carry the easier the ride.

As I unclutter my life, I free myself to answer the callings of my soul.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Sooner or later, everyone's story has an unfortunate event or two...The solution, of course, is to stay as far away from the world as possible and lead a safe, simple life.

The best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible and the precious life is everything.

If I could wish one thing for anyone, it would be to not have to do anything his entire life-just go along and when you feel like doing something, do it.

Life-complication Theory: Given a choice between an easy solution and a complicated one, the loser will usually opt to travel the complicated path. Don't ignore a solution just because it's simple!

I have the life of Riley. I take my kids to school, do a bit of work in the afternoon, pick my kids up, microwave a meal, hang out with my kids, and work for a couple of hours.

Simplicity of life is an essential for greatness of life.

I want to live my life with no goals anymore, but just completely free, like I did when I was younger.

Joshua chose the simple life ... because it gave him the freedom to expand the breadth of his inner life.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

If one's life is simple, contentment has to come.

If I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen - I may just miss my life.

If I had my life to live over, I'd pick more daisies.

Poverty is mean and degrading to the human spirit, whereas a life of conscious simplicity can have both a beauty and a functional integrity that elevates the human spirit.