Quotes About Simplicity

I don't have to have the biggest house or the biggest car or the longest mink, but quality of life is really glamorous.

Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.

Someone once said, 'God is simple, all else is complex.' The more attuned you become to God, the simpler and more beautiful your life becomes.

It is our fall from a simplicity and fullness of life directly experienced, from the sensuous moment of knowing, which leaves a gap that the symbolic can never bridge.

I believe an appreciation for simplicity, the everyday - the ability to dive deeply into the banal and discover life's hidden richness - is where success, let alone happiness, emerges.

Life excites me-just little, normal, everyday things. Getting out of bed. Getting dressed. Making food. I find it all exciting.

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

I don't have a life where it's galas, posh affairs. It's me, my dog and a sofa. And a TV.

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Do it or don't. It's amazing how many things in life are that easy.

Beauty is not extravagance; beauty is life.

I'm trying to simplify my life, I guess that's my latest project.

From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.

Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

I'm going to do as much as I can with this life, and then I'm going to make sure to take some time off and be simple and ride my bike and hang out with friends.

I've learned... That it's those small daily happenings that make life so spectacular.

A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires.

It's easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.

Be simple and always take the next step. You needn't see it in advance, but you can look back at it afterwards.There is no 'how' of life, one just does it.

I want to get a farm where I am going to live for the rest of my life. I like the idea of a secluded place.

The safest course was actually the simplest-do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn't a great plan, but it had the benefits of simplicity and a long tradition.

Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)

Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward.