Quotes About Simplicity

I've been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

I don't even have a small boat. I don't even have a toy boat in my bathtub. I don't have a biplane, I don't have anything. Those things are toys, and I don't need them to be happy.

We lived in just a studio apartment with just a room and a bed that came out of the wall, and my mom couldn't afford even a Happy Meal. We ate Top Ramen. I had no toys, and I had, like, two shirts, a pair of jeans, and that was it. But I had my mom to myself, and I remember it being the coolest period of time. I loved it. I really loved it.

We had very few things. I had a couple pairs of jeans, a couple shirts. And same with my mom and sister. I think my sister had, like, two toys. We were living off of instant noodles.

I like to be very simple in my lifestyle. My only extravagance is... I buy lots of toys and meats for my dog.

I pay my rent and my bills and I buy food and toys for my dog and that's it.

I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me there are birds in the neighbourhood.

Personally, I'm a simple dresser. I usually buy my own clothes. Jeans, T-shirts, summer dresses and track pants. Whenever I get the time or see a shop that catches my fancy, I buy something.

I am a firm believer that if you can explain it to a kid, you're on the right track.

People are remarkably bad at remembering long lists of goals. I learned this at a professional level when trying to get my high-performance coaching clients to stay on track; the longer their lists of to-dos and goals, the more overwhelmed and off-track they got. Clarity comes with simplicity.

In my latter years I've decided that there's too much to keep track of when you go into the lying game. That becomes stressful and it's not for me anymore.

Maybe I should just go home and ride my tractor.

It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.

Yoga has allowed me to bring my complete spirit together, which allows me to do less, which is more.

Simple ingredients, treated with respect... put them together and you will always have a great dish.

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.

The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

Take the back roads instead of the highways.

Barefoot travel allows you to get the true feel of a place.

I never needed much, and I never thought I'd get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.

One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it.

Travel like Ghandi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind.

I'm not a materialist, I don't care for things. I don't like cars, I hate things that can be exploited. I live a simple life. The only luxuries I have in my life are travel and food.

We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.