Simple Life Quotes - Page 8

• Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Simple, Clothes, Simplicity

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.212, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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• 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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• You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Laughter, Humorous

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• Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

  Philip Wylie

  Blessing, Simplicity, Needs

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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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• If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.

  A. A. Milne

  Teacher, Sweet, Talking

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• Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.

  Tom Robbins

  Simple, Giving, Life Is

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• A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.

  Rick Warren

  Simple, Empty Life, Life Is

  Rick Warren (2010). “Daily Inspiration for the Purpose Driven Life: Scriptures and Reflections from the 40 Days of Purpose”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Simple, Thinking, Details

  Ursula K. LeGuin (2014). “The Unreal and the Real Volume 2: Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin: Outer Space & Inner Lands”, p.147, Hachette UK

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• Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Happiness, Procrastination

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.40, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "The Book of Tea".

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• There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Relationship, Appreciation

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• Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material.

  Michael Behe

  Simple, Inanimate Objects, Materials

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• I avoid social networks and I try to live a very normal, simple life. I love spending time and hang out with my friends any time I can. I like a very simple life.

  Dakota Johnson

  Simple, Trying, Normal

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• I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box.

  Anne Sexton

  Simple, Night, Long

  Anne Sexton, “The Ambition Bird”

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• I've done movies for certain reasons; I did 'Anaconda' because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn't dead in the first three pages, like Jurassic Park. It's like, 'The black man kills the snake with a Latino girl? Damn! I got to do this.'

  Ice Cube

  Girl, Simple, Men

  "Ice Cube and Kevin Hart pair up for a ride". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. January 17, 2014.

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• If, as the dowager had said, we are nothing but gene carriers, why do so many of us have to lead such strangely shaped lives? Wouldn't our genetic purpose-to transmit DNA-be served just as well if we lived simple lives, not bothering our heads with a lot of extraneous thoughts, devoted entirely to preserving life and procreating? Did it benefit the genes in any way for us to lead such intricately warped, even bizarre, lives?

  Haruki Murakami

  Simple, Dna, Way

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• I'm not a materialist, I don't care for things. I don't like cars, I hate things that can be exploited. I live a simple life. The only luxuries I have in my life are travel and food.

  Ferran Adria

  Hate, Simple, Luxury

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• The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when their emotional lives are just as complicated as ours. They might have a few less tools to deal with it because they're young, but the emotions are all the same, and the subject matter is all the same.

  Sherman Alexie

  Kids, Simple, Emotional

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• I can't do anything about the thoughts that come into my head, but I can do something about the ones that stay there!.

  Penney Peirce

  Simple, Can Do Something, I Can

  Penney Peirce (2009). “The Intuitive Way: The Definitive Guide to Increasing Your Awareness”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• My homies in Gadsden aren't as exposed as I am culturally, which is awesome - that's why I love going home. I'm in the kitchen with people who don't know anything but the simple life, what's important to them, and what's dope.

  Yelawolf

  Home, Dope, Simple

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• I live a fairly simple life, and that didnt change much after I sold TechCrunch in 2010. I didnt buy a new house or even a new car. The one thing I did splurge on was a boat. Nothing too fancy or large.

  Michael Arrington

  Simple, Car, House

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• I think a lot of people have seen me on The Simple Life and think I'm a "spoilt airhead," but I was playing a character. The producers said they wanted Nicole and I just to be crazy and funny and say outlandish things.

  Paris Hilton

  Crazy, Character, Simple

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