Quotes About Simplicity

Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?

I know well that happiness is in little things.

It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.

Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow - therein is happiness. Wealth and rank attained through immoral means are nothing but drifting clouds.

Happiness in simplicity can be achieved with a flexible mindset and nine hours sleep each night.

I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks.

This is the definition of happiness: a whole day stretching out ahead of me, beautiful in its emptiness and simplicity.

The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

'Happiness is a Small Politician' - my mantra then and forever more.

It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.

It is not great, but little good-haps that make up happiness.

Happiness is free, there are no conditions.

Whoever said happiness needs a plan?

Let your greatest possession be the ability to let go of any possession, joyfully.

It's the secret to happiness, you know. Only take what you need.

Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don't necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.

Walking a dog is a lesson in the simplicities of happiness, but you need to throw sticks to get maximum benefit from the lesson.

What happiness the rural maid attends, In cheerful labour while each day she spends! She gratefully receives what Heav'n has sent, And, rich in poverty, enjoys content.

It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.

Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.

It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the sad little happiness of drinks and kisses, a good little car and a warm deep thigh.

Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.

The key to happiness is not to get more, but to enjoy what we have and to fill the empty frame of our lives instead of enlarging it.

If happiness could be bought, we'd probably be unhappy at the price tag. If only the secret of happiness was as simple as getting wealthy and spending more.