Quotes About Simplicity

Thus was my first year's life in the woods completed; and the second year was similar to it. I finally left Walden September 6th,1847.

The easiest way of life is the best.

Enjoy the necessities of life but eschew the excesses.

Between the monster and the fool there are many people who walk the middle path with a dog at their heels, their lives enriched by giving the dog a dog's life.

Many parts of my life are perfectly ordinary, if that's what you mean. One could even call it boring, but that's what I like about it.

Happy the life, that in a peaceful stream, Obscure, unnoticed through the vale has flow'd; The heart that ne'er was charm'd by fortune's gleam Is ever sweet contentment's blest abode.

The industrial age is over. What follows will be life lived on a much smaller and finer scale.

All that hath been majestical In life or death, since time began, Is native in the simple heart of all, The angel heat of man.

In my everyday life, I'm a jeans and button-up shirt kind of guy.

I'll say life is simpler.

I really don't require a whole lot in life.

My motto is that I enjoy life. I think there's a kind of simplicity to that way of thinking.

What kind of life are you leading where you consider ketchup fancy? "Well, we ain't rich folk, but on special occasions, I'll break out the ketchup. Grandma's birthday, make her feel special"

I don't think the jet-setting life is really for most people.

You're sitting there, with your wife and your baby and your smiling dog, and you're watching Real Housewives getting into fistfights on TV. And you go, 'How great is my life? I'm so happy right now.'

I'm not beating people over the head, and I'm saying that there are good things in store - you can make it in life. Most of the stuff that I minister [is] not real complicated deep things.

Happy the man, whose wish and careA few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native airIn his own ground.

Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple.

We need but little learning to live happily.

Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it.

It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town... he can walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety.

Life isn't always really glamorous and fabulous. It's about encouraging people to go back to natural beauty.

It may sound too good to be true, but once you've seen the happiest people in your life who have nothing, you really start rethinking what the world, and society, tells us that we need to be happy.

When people complain of your complexity, they fail to remember that they made fun of your simplicity.