Simple Life Quotes - Page 4

• The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Beautiful, Art, Block

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1902). “The Philistine”

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• The most outstanding characteristic of Eastern civilization is to know contentment, whereas that of Western civilization is not to know contentment. Contented Easterners are satisfied with their simple life and therefore do not seek to increase their material enjoyment... They are satisfied with their present lot and environment and therefore do not want to conquer nature but merely be at home with nature and at peace with their lot.

  Hu Shih

  Home, Simple, Civilization

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• The blessing that I got from my parents, even if they didnt really teach me about money, was their simple lifestyle.

  Bo Sanchez

  Blessing, Simple, Parent

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• Something that is said with the word “YOU” is truly heard by a very few and, that too, listened only of someone who leads a very simple life and regularly says the things refreshingly new because “You” has a tone and texture of an ADVICE, which everyone tries to give than take from others as almost all consider themselves to be WISE.

  Anuj

  Wise, Simple, Giving

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• I want to sing simple things for the simple lives of simple people.

  Julio Iglesias

  Simple, People, Want

  "Julio Iglesias mounting 'comeback' with new versions of his famous songs". www.thestar.com. August 24, 2012.

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• The simplest things are often the truest.

  Richard Bach

  Simple, Simplicity, Less Is More

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• Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.

  Clara Barton

  Simple, Hands, Opposites

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• If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

  Robert Browning

  Beauty, Attitude, Simple

  'Fra Lippo Lippi' (1855) l. 217

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• 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

  Simple, Thinking, Routine

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.165, Penguin

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• The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.

  Johnny Depp

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

  Isadora Duncan

  Inspirational, Life, Sensual

  "Fictional character: Isadora Duncan". "Isadora", www.imdb.com. 1968.

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• Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Simple, Men, Wings

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• Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Simple, Men, Earth Life

  Reader's Digest, July 1972.

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• I live a reasonably simple life, off the beaten track.

  George Lucas

  Simple, Track, Beaten

  "George Lucas: No, Star Wars is not supposed to be funny" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2002.

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• The biggest human temptation is... to settle for too little.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Temptation, Littles

  Forbes, August 4, 1980.

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• Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

  Charles Mingus

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Music

  Charles Mingus' statement in Mainliner Magazine (July 1977); later quoted in Olivia Bertagnolli "Creativity and the writing process" (p. 182), 1982.

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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 great thing about The Simple Life is that it's a reality show but not based on my reality, ... It has nothing to do with my life or my home or my relationships or anything. I'm not open to anything like that.

  Nicole Richie

  Home, Simple, Reality

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• How many things are there which I do not want.

  Socrates

  Life, Simple, Simplicity

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

  Robert Breault

  Relationship, Missing, One Love

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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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• If you can reincarnate, what do you wanna be in your next life? I think I want to become a rock. A stone has no troubles and lives a simple life. The worst that could happen would be being stepped on, but that won't hurt. Am I right? What about you? What are you thinking? I've already thought it over for you. You'll become the wind. Because the wind is one of the world's cleanest things. Moreover, the wind can blow upon the rock, moving it. As it blows, the rock will eventually turn into sand. This way, the sand and wind can be together. Sand and wind are meant to be together.

  Ah Ken

  Hurt, Drama, Moving

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• Plurality should not be assumed without necessity.

  William of Ockham

  Simple, Simplicity, Less Is More

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• 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. (148)

  Victoria Moran

  Commitment, Simple, Priorities

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

  Philippos Syrigos

  Inspirational, Life, People

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