Simple Life Quotes - Page 5

• I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.

  Karl Pilkington

  Simple, Lazy, Needs

  "Karl Pilkington, Ricky Gervais ('An Idiot Abroad')". Interview with Alex Fletcher, www.digitalspy.com. September 20, 2010.

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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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• I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

  George Santayana

  Life, Beautiful, Aggravation

  Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "The Irony of Liberalism" (1922)

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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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• 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 of medieval life.

  John Millington Synge

  Beauty, Art, Character

  John Millington Synge (2008). “The Complete Works of J. M. Synge”, p.317, Wordsworth Editions

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

  Robert Breault

  Relationship, Missing, One Love

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• The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Real, Simple, Life Is

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• We want to live a simple life, ... I want to emphasize I'm not an environmentalist who goes to church. I want my principal identity as a Christian to be someone who follows Jesus. I want to work for peace and justice, care for God's environment, be a good neighbor and friend and live the right life.

  Allen Johnson

  Friendship, Christian, Jesus

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• 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 and lead a safe, simple life.

  Daniel Handler

  Inspirational Life, Live Life, Adversity

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• To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.

  William Ellery Channing

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  William Ellery Channing, “My Symphony”

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• 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 ready and willing to do the right thing, just as Jack was. Their distractions are greater, though. There's no more simple life with simple choices for the young.

  Johnny Cash

  Kids, Simple, Choices

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• And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love.

  Anne Tyler

  Simple, Clean, Ifs

  Anne Tyler (2004). “Back When We Were Grownups”

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• You try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end all you have left is yourself.

  Sue Grafton

  Simple, Trying, Ends

  Sue Grafton (2010). “"A" is for Alibi”, p.308, Macmillan

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• 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 lot of fun.

  Erlend Loe

  Fun, Simple, Want

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.71, Canongate Books

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• 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 angle?

  Audrey Hepburn

  Simple, Stories, Needs

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• I love the smell of the universe in the morning.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Morning, Smell, Astrophysics

  Twitter post from Apr 05, 2013

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• My father thought I would lead a simple life; that I was bright but unambitious, complacant with whatever work life threw at me. My father, as usual, was wrong.

  Samantha Shannon

  Father, Simple, Usual

  Samantha Shannon (2013). “The Bone Season”, p.2, A&C Black

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

  Socrates

  Life, Simple, Simplicity

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• The simplicity that all this presupposes is not easy to attain. I find that my life constantly threatens to become complex and divisive. A life of prayer is basically a very simple life. This simplicity, however, is the result of asceticism and effort: it is not a spontaneous simplicity.

  Thomas Merton

  Prayer, Simple, Simplicity

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