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Quotes About Simplicity

The spiritual life becomes very simple when you're sick.
~ Wilfrid Sheed
My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it.
~ Wilkie Collins
Business schools reward complex behavior but it's the simple behavior that makes you successful in life
~ John C. Maxwell
It's a cliché to state that one should think like a child, but it's clear that kids know something that the world tries to make you unlearn later in life.
~ John Darnielle
Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play. It seems like spelling out mysterious, musical details can destroy a play by making the motivations too clear, too simplex.
~ John Guare
Like Paul Kraston said, all I ask in life is a water bed, a TV and a typewriter. Well, I'll just have an ordinary bed, a TV and a guitar.
~ John Lennon
You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
~ John Ortberg
By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I'm hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to emotional life.
~ Jonathan Lethem
My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television.
~ Joni Mitchell
I actually believe in simplicity as a way of life. My wife and I are considering moving into a yurt!
~ Joseph Monninger
Life is sometimes very complicated, but we can purposely learn to enjoy the simple yet powerful and beautiful things God has created!
~ Joyce Meyer
Perhaps we could enjoy ordinary, everyday life more if we learned to celebrate the ordinary.
~ Joyce Meyer
Sun lighting a child's hair. A friend's embrace. Slow dancing in a safe and quiet place. The pleasures of an ordinary life.
~ Judith Viorst
We should enjoy food and have fun. It is one of the simplest and nicest pleasures in life.
~ Julia Child
Sometimes the small pleasures in life are the sweetest.
~ Karen Marie Moning
There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
~ Karen Thompson Walker
Life seemed so simple and joyous when I was growing up.
~ Kathie Lee Gifford
I don't have a sence of style in real life. I'm more like same-clothes-every-day guy. I don't wear jewelry, I don't wear any of this.
~ Ken Jeong
In this moment, you have everything you need, and life is just a series of moments.
~ Kevin Daniels
Be content with an ordinary life.
~ Laozi
To have little is to possess.
~ Laozi
My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
~ Laura Marling
At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing.
~ Lauren Groff
I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.
~ Lawrence Block