Quotes About Simplicity

I think how easy it would be to go through life as a goat. You don't have any problems. You don't fall in love, so you don't get crushed by loss. You just have your simple, farm-animal life, which I envy now.

There wasn't much to know. Now there's less.

Could it really be so easy? Could someone who'd almost slipped through my fingers be within my grasp again—just like that? Maybe that's the thing about real love...it comes easier than the kind you have to break yourself for.

She wanted to leave her noisy questing "self" behind in that pool—not by tumbling in, like Narcissus, but by rising up. The answer came to her: "I saw there was no self; that selfishness was all folly . . . that I had only to live in the idea of the ALL, and all was mine.

Be pure and simple, and love all because all are one. Live a sincere life; be natural, and be honest with yourself. Honesty will guard you against false modesty and will give you the strength of true humility. Spare no pains to help others. Seek no other reward than the gift of Divine Love.

A child can be very happy with very simple things; adult must do the same!

A poor fisherman who knows the beauties of the misty mornings is much richer than a wealthy man who sleeps till noon in his palace!

An ordinary chair is always more comfortable than the king's chair!

Bicycle means simplicity and simplicity means happiness!

Cities make people sick; they create living dead! Get away from the cities in every possible occasion! River does no harm to you; forest does no harm to you; wild flowers do no harm to you! When you are in nature, you are amongst the friends! Be clever, be in the nature!

Dogs are happy with few things because they have already observed man who is unhappy with many things!

For a shining mind and a shining body, you need nature, not gilding or silvering!

For a water drop, the most beautiful house is a leaf; and for a man: The goodness! Let the goodness be your home you permanently live in!

For serenity, always prefer the cottage to the palace!

Frog in the mud is happier than the man, because it has no ambition to reach the stars!

Just like sweeping the streets, sweep the unnecessary things from your mind too; keep your mind clean!

Let the purity and innocence of a child be your one and only religion!

Let us freely walk in the countryside, like a horse peacefully walking towards sunset without any particular purpose!

Like drinking a cup of tea, all the simple things in life are the real things that make us happy!

Man must be happy, as happy as a poor child cheerfully playing with his poor toy!

No man with a complex life can be happy! The simple secret of the happiness is simple life!

Regular and simple life is the life of God; the chaotic and the complex one is the Devil's!

Simple life and peaceful mind are very close friends!

Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!