Quotes About Simplicity

Real life is not as simple as it is on a screen. I think real life is actually a lot more beautiful.

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

Muichi Motsu: "Hold nothing": If you meet Buddha, kill Buddha. If you meet the patriarchs, kill the patriarchs. Free of all, bound by nothing, you live your life simply as it is

I really live a simple life and don't need very much to feel good and happy. Don't get me wrong; I believe you should get what you earn. Sometimes you have to fight for it.

Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

Pablo Casals has this simple and sincere attitude of knowing where it's at - of saying, "This is the way it is." If I thought I could carry some of that into my life, I would be happy.

You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.

Living a simpler life has turned out to be one of the keys to being more awake and healthy.

What if we just acted like everything was easy?

When I feel like I'm in a rut, I remember it's the little things in life that are important, like riding a bike with a friend or eating ice cream with my baby niece.

I live a generally quiet life, as it were.

Life is too short to waste on things that don't matter.

He knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words.

I wanted to find a cave and hang out there for the rest of my life and be a cave painter and eat dirt.

An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.

Christians will want to be in the vanguard in favoring ways of life that decisively break with the exhausting and joyless frenzy of consumerism.

Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a few things of a grandeur not fit for us.

I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.

Live simply. Give more. Expect less.

How we long to remove the clutter from our lives not realizing that the clutter is our lives.

More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.

You know your life is over when you own a lawnmower.

Life has to be described in pure and simple physical and physiological terms. It must be demystified and depsychologised

If I can get a day to myself, I won't answer the phone, I'll read or go for a walk. Simple, basic things. People think there's always time to do that but there isn't. Life is short.