Quotes on Living A Simple Life

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

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.

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

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.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Live simply so that others may simply live.