Simple life is used to refer to a manner of living in which a person does not own many things or use many modern machines and usually lives in the countryside. Profoundly inspirational simple life quotes will encourage you to think a little deeper than you usually would and broaden your perspective.
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Famous Simple Life Quotes
A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with that’s poverty but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . . When you’re clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it’s clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar. – Victoria Moran
I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do. – Roald Dahl
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. – Confucius
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough. – Charles Warner
The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn’t simple. – Doris Janzen Longacre
Live simply that others might simply live. – Elizabeth Ann Seton
I want to live simply, to work honestly, to love completely and to dare mightily, so that when I die, my children, and their children, will know that I died empty, and well satisfied. – Doug Robinson
Live a simple life; you will own the most beautiful treasures of the world! – Mehmet Murat ildan
The complexity of your earthly array is not a guarantee for a truimphant eternity. The fact is that you need a simple life to go to heaven; not an excessively glittering body, shiny lips and charming face. – Israelmore Ayivor
The simple life on the farm was everything to me. Nothing was more relaxing after a long plane flight than to reach the winding driveway that led up to my house. The quiet of the night was more soothing than a sleeping pill. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go. – Steve Maraboli
Live simply so that others may simply live. – Stendhal
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough. – Charles Dudley Warner
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind. – Albert Einstein
Lead a simple life. First reduce your greeds. Then reduce your needs. – Ritu Ghatourey
Best rule for a simple life… Care with no reason, Love with no expectation – Ritu Ghatourey
It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary. – Paulo Coelho
I found the simple life, ain’t so simple. – Van Halen
Simplicity of living, if deliberately chosen, implies a compassionate approach to life. It means that we are choosing to live our daily lives with some degree of conscious appreciation of the condition of the rest of the world. – Duane Elgin
Live simply so that others may simply live. – Mahatma Gandhi
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand. – Henry David Thoreau
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. – Lao Tzu
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. – Vernon Howard
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves. – Edwin Way Teale
He who buys what he does not need steals from himself. – Author Unknown
Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more. – John Kabat-Zinn
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. – Henry David Thoreau
Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning. – Charles De Lint
Simplicity involves unburdening your life, and living more lightly with fewer distractions that interfere with a high quality life, as defined uniquely by each individual. – Linda Breen Pierce.
The intention of voluntary simplicity is not to dogmatically live with less. It’s a more demanding intention of living with balance. This is a middle way that moves between the extremes of poverty and indulgence. – Duane Elgin
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. – Frederic Chopin
Simplicity of character is no hindrance to the subtlety of intellect. – John Morley
A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life. – Winston Churchill
A little simplicity would be the first step toward rational living, I think. – Eleanor Roosevelt
It is very hard to be simple enough to be good. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only great minds can afford a simple style. – Stendhal
If one’s life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements. – Dalai Lama
One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in. – Francis Jourdain
We don’t need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it. – Donald Horban
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. – Henry David Thoreau
Simplicity of character is no hindrance to the subtlety of intellect. – John Morley
Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature. – Thomas a Kempis
Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty. – Mahlon Hoagland
The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things. – Eleanor Roosevelt
As we live and as we are, Simplicity — with a capital ‘S’ — is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means. – Frank Lloyd Wright
Seek simplicity, and distrust it. – Alfred North Whitehead
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have even lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. – Henry David Thoreau
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy. – Richard Halloway
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex. – Oscar Wilde
Simplicity of character is no hindrance to the subtlety of intellect. – John Morley
