Simplicity Quotes

There's no seduction any more, diary. No subtlety. No tidy-yourself-up in this world. No need for personal pride. There's just the things you're prepared to do - for survival, for fulfillment, for whatever-the-hell-it-is you really need - and the things you're not.

~ Simon Spurrier

Listening to the siren song of more, we are deaf to the still small voice waiting in our soul to whisper, ‘You’re enough.

~ Julia Cameron

Simplicity of appearance can cause hindrance to success when you are poor. But the same simplicity is admired in a rich and successful person.

~ Shon Mehta

The cake had been done by a lady friend of Mary's. It was simpler than it would have been had she been given more time, but I was finding more and more beauty in simplicity.

~ Janette Oke

Good design is as little as possible. Less, but better, because it concentrates on the essential aspects, 
and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.

~ Dieter Rams

The Simplicity Is Hardest Things To Define The Purity Of Love.

~ Yaganesh Derasari

When you're dead, you're dead, and that's that.

~ Costas Taktsis

The Master, by residing in the Tao,sets an example for all beings.Because he doesn't display himself,people can see his light.Because he has nothing to prove,people can trust his words.Because he doesn't know who he is,people recognize themselves in him.Because he has no goal in mind,everything he does succeeds.

~ Lao Tzu

Chess is a game with simple rules and pieces, a small sixty-four-space board, but there are more possible chess games than there are atoms in the universe.

~ Austin Grossman

The tailor bird builds her nest in deep woods, she uses no more than one branch.The mole drinks off the river, it can only fill one belly.

~ Zhuangzi

When we have simplicity we have so much more freedom in every single aspect of our lives. Maybe it's a classic case of less is more? Less stress, less worries, more time, more happiness.

~ Evan Sutter

We had everything we needed. None of it was big. Most of it was simple. But what I knew in that moment was that the size of your home, your car, your wallet, doesn’t have one single thing to do with the size of your life. And my life...my life felt big, filled with love and with meaning.

~ Mia Sheridan

I wanted you see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.

~ Harper Lee

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

Simplicity is NOT boring. Simplicity is not self-denial. It is an indulgence, providing you with a wealth of time and space.Simplicity IS discerning the essential from the unessential. Simplicity is having room for the unexpected. It is savoring life.Most of all, simplicity is freedom: It's freedom to choose what you want in your life because you're not letting in everything that shows up. It's freedom to do what you want because you're not already committed to more obligations than you can handle and the maintenance of more objects than you'll ever use.

~ Victoria Moran

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

~ William James

Try to keep it simple.

~ Samadara Ginige

Leaders can hold onto busyness like a weapon of protection.

~ Angela Lynne Craig

Omit the non-essential.

~ Per Mollerup

Be young at heart. Remember back when you were young and what made you happiest then. Recapture the simplicity and wonder of youth and make it a state of mind.

~ Susan Stovall

This stretch through the fogbound forest gradually lulled Grange into his favorite daydream; in it he saw an image of his life: all that he had he carried with him; twenty feet away, the world grew dark, perspectives blurred, and there was nothing near him but this close halo of warm consciousness, this nest perched high above the vague earth.

~ Julien Gracq

The first step in crafting the life you want is to get rid of everything you don't.

~ Joshua Becker

Owning less is better than organizing more.

~ Joshua Becker

The best way to find out what we really need is to get rid of what we don't.

~ Marie Kondō

Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views - then the world will be governed.

~ Zhuangzi

Even when the truth is in fact simple, simplicity is still relative.

~ Criss Jami

A fast is not necessarily something we offer God, but it assists us in offering ourselves

~ Jen Hatmaker

I am thinking by what long discipline and at what cost a man learns to speak simply at last.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Make art and live simply.

~ Shawn Lukas

Do not be a stupid, unless someone is paying you to be.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

The world becomes so much larger the smaller you live.

~ Dayna Lovely

Quick now, here, now, always, as if we are in a condition of complete simplicity...

~ Dean Koontz

Simplicity, is the best city to live in...

~ Muhammad Zaki

I was a let-er-goer and she was a hanger-on-er, but that doesn't mean I don't lean into her territory every once in a while.

~ Dee Williams

Shouldn't you be asking for my name first?

~ Kip Fulbeck

Simplicity, not cleverness, can be the source of happiness.

~ Debasish Mridha

As I am both lazy and forgetful, I can't take proper care of too many things. That's why I want to cherish properly the things I love.

~ Marie Kondō

That's the way progress works: the more we build up these vast repertoires of scientific and technological understanding, the more we conceal them.

~ Steven Johnson

When we are able to do something so easily, we regard such thing as simplicity; but simplicity is complexity. Withing the things which are simple lay the things which are complex and within the things which are complex, lay the things which are simple

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Simplicity is all but nothing that's there.

~ Shawn Lukas