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  • 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.

    Life   Peace   Simple  
    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.88, BookBaby
  • I maintain that when I finally retire from my career in music, I will go and live back in Wales - when I am an old person, if I live to be an old person. The water I miss, and the air, there's something different about it. And I miss the simple life.

    Simple   Air   Careers  
    "Ellie Goulding: pop sensation". Interview with Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2009.
  • To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

  • dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.

  • To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

  • When I was a student I did a report on Madagascar, and ever since then it was my biggest dream to go there. Three years ago I went, and it was so different. We live in this high tech world with Facebook, Twitter, and mobile phones, and there you land and you have nothing. Yet the people live and get by every day walking in the roads, living this super simple life, and they're still happy. It is an experience that keeps you humble, puts things in perspective.

    Dream   Humble   Simple  
    Source: www.sbnation.com
  • The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

    "Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book that Changes Lives". Book by Dan Millman, p. 162, 2006.
  • To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.

    Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.2
  • The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

    "The Book of Tea".
  • To open the possibility for self-honesty, you have to develop insight, which can be achieved through meditation, therapy, other sorts of sensitivity training, and simply spending periods of time alone to find out who you really are, what you really believe, and what you really, really want.

  • I've always led a pretty simple life, with few extravagances. The money in tennis never drove me.

  • A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.

    Rick Warren (2010). “Daily Inspiration for the Purpose Driven Life: Scriptures and Reflections from the 40 Days of Purpose”, p.14, Harper Collins
  • Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

    Life   Business   Simple  
    Walden ch. 2 (1854)
  • I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.

    "Karl Pilkington, Ricky Gervais ('An Idiot Abroad')". Interview with Alex Fletcher, www.digitalspy.com. September 20, 2010.
  • I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.

    Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "The Irony of Liberalism" (1922)
  • When you wonder what is coming, tell yourself the best is coming, the very best life and love have to offer, the best God and His universe have to send. Then open your hands to receive it. It's yours.

  • I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting.

    Dog   Simple   Dinner  
  • I find that as I get older I seem to become more of a Luddite... And hearing animal experimenters describe me as a Luddite--which used to think I was not. And now I think Ned Lud had the right idea and we should have stopped all the machinery way back when, and learned to live simple lives.

  • Being sad with the right people is better than being happy with the wrong ones.

  • Our tears are what happens when it rains deep inside our hearts and we cannot hold the rain any longer.

    Rain   Heart   Simple  
  • I live a pretty simple life.

  • We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.

  • Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness.

    T. H. White (1983). “The Maharajah and Other Stories”, Berkley
  • Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the luxuries of life we can lighten the burdens of others.... surely the simplification of our wants is a thing greatly to be desired! And so, if instead of supposing that we must become hermits and dwellers in caves in order to practice simplicity, we set about simplifying our affairs, each according to his own convictions and opportunity, much good will result and the simple life will at once be established.

    Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.62, Vintage
  • I drive old cars, all my Patagonia clothes are years and years old, I hardly have anything new. I try to lead a very simple life. I am not a consumer of anything. And I much prefer sleeping on somebody's floor than in a motel room.

    Sleep   Simple   Clothes  
    "Don of the Dirtbags: An Interview with Yvon Chouinard". The Usual Interview, theusualmontauk.com. October 22, 2016.
  • I'm pretty squeaky clean. No big tragedies in my childhood or adolescence or adulthood. I've had a very easygoing, simple life.

    "Q&A: Bates Motel's Vera Farmiga on the Terrors of Parenthood". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2014.
  • What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us.

    Life   Unique   Simple  
  • When something is missing in your life, it usually turns out to be someone.

  • It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

    Life   Money   Freedom  
    "Principles of Social Reconstruction". Book by Bertrand Russell, 1917.
  • Everything is complex and everything is simple. The rose has no why attached to it, it blooms because it blooms, how no thought of itself, or desire to be seen. What could be more complicated than a rose for someone who wants to understand it? What could be simpler for someone who wants nothing? The complexity of thinking, the simplicity of beholding.

    Simple   Thinking   Rose  
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