Quotes About Simplicity

I don't need too much. Glamour and all that stuff don't excite me. I am just glad I have the game of basketball in my life.

What I like doing best is Nothing.

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

I'd rather have flowers in my hair, than diamonds around my neck.

Life was simple when you were a Shield Bug.

Pray silently with simplicity every day to stay cool and calm in mind, composed and collected in heart; courageous and connected to own soul, to lay the way for a peaceful life.

The more I simplify my life, the happier I feel.

Give me simplicity, that I may live, So live and like, that I may know Thy ways, Know them and practise them: then shall I give For this poor wreath, give Thee a crown of praise.

It [is of] some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessities of life.

Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends.

The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high.

Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn't be more simple, nor the stakes higher.

The best moments in my life are just before going to bed. Those are my happiest moments.

Going back to a simpler life is not a step backwards.

Household life is crowded and dusty; life gone forth is wide open... Suppose I shave off my hair and beard, put on the ochre robe, and go forth from the home life into homelessness.

Eat from the Tree of Life and throw away the verbal ham.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

True freedom doesn't lie in the maximization of choice, but, ironically, is most easily found in a life where there is little choice.

We're thrilled to join Google. With their support, Nest will be even better placed to build simple, thoughtful devices that make life easier at home, and that have a positive impact on the world.

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

I think that setting a novel in a small town taps into a sense of nostalgia among readers. People tend to believe life is different in small towns, and frankly, it is different.

Wouldn't it be nice if everything balanced in the world? If right came out on top and wrong was punished. It sure would be simple.

All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary.

A normal life. Such a simple idea, but it's almost impossible for me to picture.