Simple Life Quotes - Page 7

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

  Winston Churchill

  Vocabulary, Simplicity, Simple Living

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• A lot of people say I'm not very friendly, that I'm cold. But I'm just the opposite. I live a very simple life. I'm a normal person, very sensitive, very caring about those around me.

  Justine Henin

  Caring, Simple, Opposites

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• My worthiness is all my doubt His Merit- all my fear- Contrasting which my quality Does however appear

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Doubt, Quality

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• O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Simple, Feet, Flutes

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.13, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• I find that as I get older I seem to become more of a Luddite... And hearing animal experimenters describe me as a Luddite--which used to think I was not. And now I think Ned Lud had the right idea and we should have stopped all the machinery way back when, and learned to live simple lives.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Simple, Thinking

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• Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Anxiety, Comfort, Materialism

  Oliver Goldsmith (1833). “Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a New Life of the Author”, p.178

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• The simplest things give me ideas.

  Joan Miro

  Ideas, Giving, Simplicity

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• To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Fire, Simplicity, World

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.2

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• Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty.

  Mahlon Hoagland

  Simplicity, Criteria, Simple Beauty

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• If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, This is the best season of your life.

  Wumen Huikai

  Simple, Simplicity, Mind

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• To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all our lives be simplified merely, like an algebraic formula? Or not, rather, that I may make use of the ground I have cleared to live more worthily and profitably?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Simple, Simplicity, Use

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.369, Penguin

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• Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

  Ezra Pound

  Men, Simplicity, Want

  1938 Guide to Kulcher, pt.3, section 5, ch.19.

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• A Simple lifestyle of reduced consumption allows more time for interaction with living, dynamic beings, more opportunity for meeting the Other more fully and unencumbered.

  Stephanie Kaza

  Opportunity, Simple, Lifestyle

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• Excess and deficiency are equally at fault.

  Confucius

  Simple, Excess, Faults

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• To me, voluntary simplicity means integration and awareness in my life.

  Duane Elgin

  Mean, Simple, Simplicity

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• A simple life is its own reward.

  George Santayana

  Simple, Rewards, Life Is

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.203, 谷月社

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• My life is a very simple life thank you

  Tom Clancy

  Simple, Life Is

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• In all practices and traditions of freedom, we find the heart's task to be quite simple. Life offers us just what it offers, and our task is to bow to it, to meet it with understanding and compassion.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Simple, Compassion

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• Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the luxuries of life we can lighten the burdens of others.... surely the simplification of our wants is a thing greatly to be desired! And so, if instead of supposing that we must become hermits and dwellers in caves in order to practice simplicity, we set about simplifying our affairs, each according to his own convictions and opportunity, much good will result and the simple life will at once be established.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Happiness, Opportunity, Simple

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.62, Vintage

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• Authenticity pushes us past our comfort zone - it's meant to.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Past, Simple, Comfort

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2009). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, p.12, Hachette UK

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• I dote on myself. There is a lot of me and all so luscious.

  Walt Whitman

  Simple

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself, XXIV”

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• To open the possibility for self-honesty, you have to develop insight, which can be achieved through meditation, therapy, other sorts of sensitivity training, and simply spending periods of time alone to find out who you really are, what you really believe, and what you really, really want.

  Stephen Russell

  Honesty, Believe, Simple

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• Guilt is a totally useless emotion. It never makes anyone feel better nor does it change a situation.

  Louise Hay

  Feel Better, Simple, Guilt

  Louise L. Hay (2009). “You Can Heal Your Life”, p.203, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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 and I'm happy.

  Yanni

  Beach, Life Is Good, Simple

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• 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, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart?

  James Joyce

  Morning, Tired, Heart

  James Joyce (2011). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Thrift Study Edition”, p.158, Courier Corporation

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