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Quotes About Simplicity

I try to live honestly in every aspect of my life, which can make things a bit more complicated, right?
~ Richard Madden
Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it.
~ Robert Breault
I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life.
~ Robert Breault
Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?
~ Eckhart Tolle
Suddenly it was clear to me that all the beautiful complexity of life had simplicity at its core.
~ Eric Lander
True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven.
~ Frederick Buechner
Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Beautiful food and health are priceless.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life.
~ Tom Hodgkinson
Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.
~ Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
Get a life. A real life. Not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house.
~ Anna Quindlen
Life is short, I have no time for drama.
~ Caroline Manzo
Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same.
~ Edward Hoagland
Life is simple. Life is not complicated. Life is only one thing: Identify yourself.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Life is easy greediness adds complexity
~ John Simm
I'm not allowed to get a big head, I've still got to do the simple things in life.
~ Queen Latifah
I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
~ George Santayana
In real life, people don't try to live dramatically, people try to live in a light way. People try to laugh.
~ Ginnifer Goodwin
It is the simplest things in life that hold the most wonder; the color of the sea, the sand between your toes, the laughter of a child.
~ Goldie
One of the most important rules for me is: Don't ever defend myself. If we could put this one principle into practice, how much more simple life would be.
~ Guy Finley
Believing that anxious thoughts and feelings can restore order to your life is like using a chain-saw to fold your laundry.
~ Guy Finley
Walk lightly through life.
~ Guy Finley
My greatest skill has been to want but little.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.
~ Henry David Thoreau