Simple Life Quotes

Life is as simple as these three questions: What do I want? Why do I want it? And, how will I achieve it?

~ Shannon L. Alder

I think nothing is good, I really think it is.

~ Duop Chak Wuol

Simplicity is complex. It's never simple to keep things simple. Simple solutions require the most advanced thinking.

~ Richie Norton

They want me. I want them. I want this place. I want everything to be simple and beautiful and warm.

~ Jackson Pearce

He toasted his bacon on a fork and caught the drops of fat on his bread; then he put the rasher on his thick slice of bread, and cut off chunks with a clasp-knife, poured his tea into his saucer, and was happy.

~ D.h. Lawrence

For the modern solitary, the quest for silence has vastly broader boundaries than what one's predecessors faced. Solitude is real only when it is relative to the world in which it is lived. It is unreal if attempted in fantasy--as though telephones and fax machines, the Internet and E-mail did not exist. (36)

~ Barbara Erakko Taylor

Don’t waste you energy to compare your life with others.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.

~ Dean Koontz

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.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The greatest challenge in life is to be our own person and accept that being different is a blessing and not a curse. A person who knows who they are lives a simple life by eliminating from their orbit anything that does not align with his or her overriding purpose and values. A person must be selective with their time and energy because both elements of life are limited.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

In an age of complexity, it is not easy to live a simple life or to practice simplicity.

~ Debasish Mridha

If you want to know if someone is lying to you, start by living a truthful life. Once you live in the truth, you will not be easily deceived.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

I thought that nothing enormously bad or good had happened to me during my life. All the normal things had occurred. I had lived a completely unremarkable life. I wanted only my home, and the love and safety of those around me, nothing else. I knew there was no particular reason why I was put on this earth, but here I was and I was glad to be here, awed by the beauty of it. It was a perfect moment. (p.99)

~ Michael Zadoorian

We're [as parents] striving for an unattainable, inauthentic shell, and ignoring the real nut, the gooey inside: love, laughter, and fulfillment from simple things.

~ Julie Lythcott-Haims

It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town... he can walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Haven't you ever thought of livingunconsciously like bears, sniffing the earth,close to pears and the mossy dark,far from human voices and

~ Nâzım Hikmet

Sounds simple, doesn’t it, this notion of simplicity? Simple things done simply by a simple person. But it’s not as simple as it seems.

~ Fennel Hudson

A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare within or without to shake it, I declined it, preferring to wipe my feet on the sod before my door. It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Simple things, simple pleasures, cutting and splitting wood, a love of the country they wanted to see more of, memories of softball fields and a girl named Amanda. There are such women as Theresa Sam Fitzgerald who love their men. Are content with their lives together.

~ James Brady

An authentic life facing reality without mental equivocation is the simplest type of life.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster