Quotes About Simplicity

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

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.

Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful.

Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

Find joy in the ordinary.

Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.

Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. It is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.

True happiness is born of letting go of what is unnecessary.

We can live as we were meant to live - simply, joyously, of and on the earth. We can live with all our effort and with pure happiness.

Learn to ne happy with what you have.

The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience of enlightenment and, through that experience, happiness.

I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.

You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.

He was uncomplicated and upbeat and easy. At one point, I might have thought these traits made him a simpleton, but now I think they just translate to happiness.

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.