Quotes About Simplicity

Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling. Think of those Galilean peasants.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

With a little discipline and regular self-checks, you can learn to do one thing at a time. And do it better. And be happier doing it.

The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. Happiness comes from within, and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience.

We have a tendency to obscure the forest of simple joys with the trees of problems.

When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses before zebras.

Living in the past has one thing in its favour - it's cheaper.

Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.

Give me neither poverty nor riches.

It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.

Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food, Nothing to wear but clothes, To keep one from going nude.

That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis.

Taking time to live is taking time to appreciate simple silence as better than any kind of talk, or watching a flower, or watching a guy wash the windows on a skyscraper and wondering what he is thinking.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Acorns were good till bread was found.

When every blessed thing you have is made of silver, or of gold, you long for simple pewter.

He who would be happy should stay at home.

I just want to be an ordinary girl.

I want to be able to live without a crowded calendar. I want to be able to read a book without feeling guilty, or go to a concert when I like.

Not always the fanciest cake that's there Is the best to eat!

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.