Quotes About Simplicity

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Life is a great bundle of little things.

If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would pick more daisies.

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

To enjoy life, we must touch much of it lightly.

After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it.

The most important things in life aren't things.

I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

Self-discipline is crucial to a simpler, more contented life.

I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

We have been given a gift that is really, really precious. Its simple. It isnt going to get us anything. It isnt there to augment anything. Its there for us to be able to experience something that is within ourselves. It is not there to change our religions, our practices, our daily lives. But it is only there for one reason, for one reason alone. Simple happiness. Simple joy.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.