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Simplicity Quotes


"But I do know we're deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted."


"Being simple is the most complicated thing nowadays!"



"There's my life, why not, it is one, if you like, if you must, I don't say no, this evening. There has to be one, it seems, once there is speech, no need of a story, a story is not compulsory, just a life, that's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough."



"In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, 'why don't I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,' and they abandon their values."


"Faith is easy I think people complicate it."


"Simplicity shall make you simple and keep you away from so many woes of life! It is simple! Just go for simplicity and be simple, Period!"


"Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight."


"There was a product which seemed attractive, expensive, portable, beautiful and simple. Everybody talked about its beauty but they bought it for it's simplicity."


"The common theme of common sense is that it's commonly rejected as uncommonly demanding."


"Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry."


"I am a man of simple tastes easily satisfied with the best."


"Life can be so wonderful when simplicity, passion and love is involved in everything we do !"


"A man should remove not only unnecessary acts but also unnecessary thoughts for then superfluous activity will not follow."


"Let's try living our lives by not letting our minds be ruled by materialistic elements."


"Everyday, in our quest to grab the new, the trendy, the coolest stuff, we forget to use the old and our daily lives become stuck in the vicious cycle, chasing after stuff without working the old. Today, pause, slow down, take time, revisit those lessons, materials and take the necessary baby-steps. It pays. Go, make it happen!"


"Tell a story in lesser and simpler words."


"There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle."


"We need much less than we think we need."


"A cup of tea at the ready and a jug of water will suffice just fine."


"The less you want, the happier you are; the happier you are, the less you want."


"The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike."



"His story is simple, because simple is always best."



"My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order, ultimately, to replace ourselves."


"Be simple and kind with a loving heart. These attributes make you more beautiful and attractive than any make up."


"The most important truths are those which sustain us in our daily lives."



"When you give the supply of discipline, life becomes easy for you."


"One can with but moderate possessions do what one ought."


"What I am interested in, what I write and care about, exists in the slow lane, somewhere between hand-ploughed fields and a pint of real ale."



"Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff."


"Tea is just an excuse.i am drinking this sunset, this evening.and you."


"My wants are so simple I don't even know what they are."



"No baggage - there was the secret of existence."


"Complexity is a product of unawareness and simplicity a result of awareness! Uncomplex yourself, Live Life!"


"You wanna go build some shelves with me?"


"It is easy, just be to have."


"All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly."


"I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish."


"In a day a man needs only his daily bread."


"Somethings are simply better left the way they are."


"Frog in the mud is happier than the man, because it has no ambition to reach the stars!"


"Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment."


"By simplifying our lives, we rediscover our child-like stalk of innocents that reconnects us with the central resin of our innate humanity that knows truth and goodness. To see the world through a lens of youthful rapture is to see life for what it can be and to see for ourselves what we wish to become. In this beam of newly discovered ecstasy for life, we realize the splendor of love, life, and the unbounded beauty of the natural world."



"Ithink that theworld should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, justcats andrain, rain and cats, very nice, goodnight."


"Just keep it simple, Alice Faye. Remember how you taught yourself. Nothing's different just because you're on a yacht, or wearing a fancy dress. Or because you appear to have dropped acid and are now in the mirror room at the fun house."


"Life is all we need."


"I pick my technology like I picked my husband. It has to complement, not complicate, my life."
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