Simple Living Quotes

• The simplest things are often the truest.

  Richard Bach

  Simple, Simplicity, Less Is More

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• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

  Lope de Vega

  Life, Flower, Book

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• The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Happiness, Lying, Simple

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• Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

  William Morris

  Life, Happiness, Beauty

  Hopes and Fears for Art "The Beauty of Life" (1882)

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• The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

  Lin Yutang

  Letting Go, Wisdom, Simple

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• Live simply that others might simply live.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Simple, Simplicity, Community

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational Life, Simple, Thinking

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1938). “My Days”

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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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Peace, Simple

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.88, BookBaby

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• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

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• Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.

  Joseph Brotherton

  Happiness, Attitude, Simple

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• Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Life, Simple, Journey

  Charles Dudley Warner “The Complete Works of Charles Dudley Warner”, Library of Alexandria

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• Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Life, Simple, Simplicity

  Edwin Way Teale (1953). “Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year”

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• The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

  Thomas Moore

  Home, Practice, Simplicity

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• 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... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.

  John Burroughs

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Nature

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.242, Syracuse University Press

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• Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• 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.

  Laozi

  Life, Happiness, New Year

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  The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

  Socrates

  Motivational, Happiness, Freedom

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  Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

  Lin Yutang

  Motivational, Art, Time

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• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Dec 25, 2011

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• Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.

  Plato

  Beauty, Inspirational Life, Simple

  Plato (2012). “The Republic and Other Works”, p.89, Anchor

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• You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

  Eric Hoffer

  Happiness, Being Happy, Simple

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

  Hans Hofmann

  Inspirational, Business, Mean

  1967 Search for the Real.

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