Simple Life Quotes

164 Simple Life quotes by 139 unique authors

Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty… — John Millington Synge
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… — Henry David Thoreau
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. — Leo Tolstoy
Simplicity is the glory of expression. — Walt Whitman
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. — Frank Lloyd Wright
'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first… — Frank Lloyd Wright
A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach… — Yanni
And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life,… — James Joyce
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter...… — John Burroughs
The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. — Thomas Moore
If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of… — A A Milne
Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better. — Tom Robbins
A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life. — Rick Warren
I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Sooner or later, everyone's story has an unfortunate event or two...The solution, of course, is to stay as far away from the world as possible… — Daniel Handler
So I simply don't buy the concept of "Generation X" as the "lost generation." I see too many good kids out there, kids who are… — Johnny Cash
Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, "I… — Jack Kornfield
dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are. — Kurt Cobain
And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love. — Anne Tyler
You try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end all you have left is yourself. — Sue Grafton
Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't want all that much. But I want to be fine. I want to live a simple life with many good moments and a… — Erlend Loe
If you lead a simple life, and that story is written, then that story will not satisfy. It needs an angle. Suppose there is no… — Audrey Hepburn
It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life. — J.R.R. Tolkien
I love the smell of the universe in the morning. — Neil deGrasse Tyson

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