Simple Life Quotes! 150 Sayings to Inspire Living a Simple Life
Simple Life Quotes
“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.” ―Leo Tolstoy
“Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.” ―Charles Warner
“A simple life gives birth to more clarity, inner peace and meaningful relationships.” ―Margo Vader
“The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.” ―Steve Maraboli
“Best rule for a simple life… Care with no reason, Love with no expectation.” ―Ritu Ghatourey
“Live a simple life; you will own the most beautiful treasures of the world!”― Mehmet Murat ildan
“A minimalist by intent, I live a beautiful life with fewer things—simple, yet full.” ―Laurie Buchanan, PhD
“Minimalism is about creating space to live simply and meaningfully; it’s about living intentionally.” ―Laurie Buchanan, PhD
“In order to seek one’s own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.”— Plato
“According to history, quite a few times simple man turned out to be the significant man.” ―Amit Kalantri
“To realise the soothing power of simple life is to find the secret of happiness!”― Mehmet Murat ildan
“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.” ―Lao Tzu
“More was never the answer. The answer, it turned out, was always less.” ―Cait Flanders, The Year of Less
“Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”— Isaac Newton
“It confuses me that Christian living is not simpler. The gospel, the very good news, is simple.” ―Donald Miller
“An authentic life facing reality without mental equivocation is the simplest type of life.” ―Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
“I just want to live simply and pay attention to what’s happening each day.” ―Kent Haruf, Our Souls at Night
“Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.”— Thomas Kempis
“Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.”—Edwin Way Teale
“My new deliberate and slower pace has created a higher quality in my experiences.” ―Lisa J. Shultz, Lighter Living: Declutter. Organize. Simplify.
“The simplest things are overlooked. And yet, it is the simplest things that are the most essential.” ―Thomas Lloyd Qualls, Painted Oxen
“Do only what is necessary and required. Efficiency is elegant. Less is more.” ―Scott Perry, Endeavor: Cultivate Excellence While Making a Difference
“I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.” ―Albert Einstein
“Declutter your mind, your heart, your home. Let go of the heaviness that is weighing you down. Make your life simple, but significant.” ―Maria Defillo
“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
“Say NO to all meaningless activities, so do not need a calendar to remember when the next is really fulfilling event in your life.” ―Rodolfo Peon
“There is more joy and fulfillment in pursuing less than can be found in pursuing more.” ―Joshua Fields Millburn, Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists
“For a few minutes I tried to empty my mind entirely, to concentrate solely on breathing: sometimes it’s useful to rediscover simpler pleasures of life.” ―Romain Gary
“Have the courage to build your life around what is really most important to you.” ―Joshua Becker, The Minimalist Home: A Room-By-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life
“I was rich, for there was nothing else that I needed or wanted.” ―Mark Warren, Two Winters in a Tipi: My Search for the Soul of the Forest
“Escape from complicated life! Take refuge in simple life! You will find three treasures there: Healthy body, peaceful mind and a life away from ambitious fools!”― Mehmet Murat ildan
“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.”— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.” ―Roald Dahl
“When you simplify your life, you will be able to see the life much better because with a simple life you get rid of the obstacles that prevents your horizons!”― Mehmet Murat ildan
“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, Walden
“My choice of a lighter lifestyle has brought me a greater sense of well-being. In a world that often seems stressful and chaotic, that’s a feeling I cherish.” ―Lisa J. Shultz, Lighter Living: Declutter. Organize. Simplify.
“Perhaps, it is not necessary to have so many things. Perhaps, it is not necessary to do so many things. Do we really need it all? Or are we drowning ourselves in things and busyness?”― Akiroq Brost
“I want to live simply, to work honestly, to love completely and to dare mightily, so that when I die, my children, and their children, will know that I died empty, and well satisfied.” ― Doug Robinson
“After a while, I wasn’t saying no because I was so busy, I was saying no because I didn’t want to be so busy anymore.” ―Courtney Carver, Soulful Simplicity: How Living with Less Can Lead to So Much More
“When we focus more on fitting it all in instead of making time for what counts, we lose sight of how to create a meaningful life.” ―Courtney Carver, Soulful Simplicity: How Living with Less Can Lead to So Much More
“Getting rid of everything that doesn’t matter allows you to remember who you are. Simplicity doesn’t change who you are, it brings you back to who you are.” ―Courtney Carver, Soulful Simplicity: How Living with Less Can Lead to So Much More
“If one’s life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements.” —The Dalai Lama
“We need more country than concrete, we need more mind than material, we need more savannah than sky-scrapers, we need more melody than malady. And this can only happen if we make simplicity and responsibility the way of life.” ―Abhijit Naskar, The Gospel of Technology
“That’s been one of my mantras—focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”— Steve Jobs
“…there are often many things we feel we should do that, in fact, we don’t really have to do. Getting to the point where we can tell the difference is a major milestone in the simplification process.” ―Elaine St. James, Living the Simple Life: A Guide to Scaling Down and Enjoying More
“Simplicity isn’t about being a cold, hard minimalist. A different way of looking at simplicity is to take note of the Japanese aesthetic of wabi sabi. It is difficult to translate it directly into a Western sensibility but it is a way of finding beauty in imperfection and profundity in nature.” ―Amanda Talbot, Rethink: The Way You Live
“To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring — these are some of the rewards of the simple life.” ―John Burroughs, Leaf and Tendril
“The Shire at this time had hardly any ‘government’. Families for the most part managed their own affairs. Growing food and eating it occupied most of their time. In other matters they were, as a rule, generous and not greedy, but contented and moderate, so that estates, farms, workshops, and small trades tended to remain unchanged for generations.” ―J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
“A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with—that’s poverty—but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . . When you’re clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it’s clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar. (148)” ―Victoria Moran, Lit From Within: Tending Your Soul For Lifelong Beauty
“Life is truly beautiful in simplicity. When we lead a simple life we achieve an unknown happiness – a happiness that surpasses any other form of happiness. And “Forest Gump” has always been one of my all time favorite movies in life. So I yearn to lead a life like that of Forest Gump! For me my ideal is Forrest Gump. Hope I live upto my ideal.” ―Avijeet Das
“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, Dead Toad Scrolls
“Out of clutter, find simplicity.” ―Albert Einstein
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”— Leonardo da Vinci
“Simplicity is the glory of expression.”— Walt Whitman
“Seek simplicity, and distrust it.” —Alfred North Whitehead
“You can do anything, but not everything.” ―Unknown
“Life’s so much simpler when you’re dead!”― Stewart Stafford
“Solace is in simplicity.” ―Abhijit Naskar,The Gospel of Technology
“Don’t make your life complicated, live simply.” ―MJ Jabican
“Keep it simple; keep it REAL.” ―Jennifer Ritchie Payette
“Simplicity is all but nothing that’s there.” ―Shawn Lukas
“The simplest things are often the truest.”— Richard Bach
“Only great minds can afford a simple style.” —Stendhal
“Make space in your life for what matters.” ―Unknown
“Don’t feel guilty doing what’s best for you.” ―Unknown
“If it costs you peace, it’s too expensive.” ―Unknown
“Love people, use things. The opposite never works.” ―The Minimalists
“Life is lived in the moments of simplicity!” ―Avijeet Das
“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”— Plato
“I found the simple life, ain’t so simple.” ―Van Halen
“Live simply that others might simply live.” —Elizabeth Ann Seton
“Live simply so that others may simply live.” —Mahatma Gandhi
“Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler.” —Albert Einstein
“Sometimes simplicity and elegance are indistinguishable from each other.” ―Amit Kalantri
“The simple pleasures of life give us lasting satisfaction.” ―Avijeet Das
“I strive for simplicity and believe simplicity is beauty.” ―Allan Alder
“It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.”— Amelia Barr
“He who buys what he does not need steals from himself.”
“Learn to live with less so that you appreciate more.” ―James Ryan
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” ―Confucius
“That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.” —Henry David Thoreau
“You never have to throw away that which you never buy.” ―Unknown
“Happiness is a place between too little and too much.” ―Finnish Proverb
“When things aren’t adding up in your life – start subtracting.” ―Unknown
“Either you run the day or the day runs you.” ―Jim Rohn
“The simple life is an authentic life.” ―Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
“Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.” —Oscar Wilde
“It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary.” ―Paulo Coelho
“Simplicity of character is no hindrance to the subtlety of intellect.” —John Morley
“One must learn to be simple, anyone can manage to be complex.” ―Amit Kalantri
“Simplicity is not a measure of difficulty but of finesse.” ―Mac Duke The Strategist
“It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.” —Oscar Wilde
Living A Simple Life Quotes
“The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn’t simple.” ―Doris Janzen Longacre
“My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.” ―Cary Grant
“The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.” ―Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
“I discovered all over Ireland is that people living simple lives by the sea or in the remote countryside seem a lot calmer than city folk with their iPads and their Android phones.” ―James Nesbitt
“The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.” ―Johnny Depp
“Simplicity of living, if deliberately chosen, implies a compassionate approach to life. It means that we are choosing to live our daily lives with some degree of conscious appreciation of the condition of the rest of the world.” ―Duane Elgin
“I’m just delighted to be living, to be able to have a simple conversation, to feel a ray of sunlight on my skin and listen to the breeze move through the leaves of a tree.” ―Ryuichi Sakamoto
“How do we return to a simpler way of living? Is there some way that we can start to think of each other as human beings again, instead of worshiping money, instead of worshiping electronics, instead of worshiping getting ahead just for me?”― Giancarlo Esposito
“A little simplicity would be the first step toward rational living, I think.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
“Simplicity involves unburdening your life, and living more lightly with fewer distractions that interfere with a high quality life, as defined uniquely by each individual.”
“The intention of voluntary simplicity is not to dogmatically live with less. It’s a more demanding intention of living with balance. This is a middle way that moves between the extremes of poverty and indulgence.” —Duane Elgin
Inspirational Quotes About Living A Simple Life
“Outer order contributes to inner calm.” ―Gretchen Rubin, Outer Order, Inner Calm
“Having a simplified, uncluttered home is a form of self-care.” ―Emma Scheib
“Your home is living space, not storage space.” ―Francine Jay, The Joy of Less
“Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It’s your masterpiece after all.” ―Nathan W. Morris
“Minimalism is not about having less. It’s about making room for more of what matters.”
“Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.”
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” ―Annie Dillard
“You don’t need more space. You need less stuff.” ―Joshua Becker, The More of Less
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” ―Hans Hofmann
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.” ―Melody Beattie
“It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.” ―Laura Ingalls Wilder
“The first step in crafting the life you want is to get rid of everything you don’t.” ―Joshua Becker
“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” ―William Morris
“My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do.” ―Francine Jay, Miss Minimalist
“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” ―Socrates
“A home with fewer possessions is more spacious, more calming, and more focused on the people who live inside it.” ―Joshua Becker
“There are two ways to be rich: one is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little.” ―Jackie French Koller
“I don’t say no because I am so busy. I say no because I don’t want to be so busy.” ―Courtney Carver
“Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of anything that distracts us from it.” ―Joshua Becker, Simplify
“Minimalism isn’t about removing things you love. It’s about removing the things that distract you from the things you love.” ―Joshua Becker, The Minimalist Home
“Clutter is not just the stuff on your floor – it’s anything that stands between you and the life you want to be living.” ―Peter Walsh
“The question of what you want to own is actually the question of how you want to live your life.” ―Marie Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Meaningful Simple Life Quotes
“Give without remembering, and receive without forgetting.” ―Unknown
“Simplify, be inspired, be original, work hard, enjoy.” ―Unknown
“Organize your life around your dreams and watch them come true.” ―Unknown
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” ―Unknown
“If it doesn’t add to your life, it doesn’t belong in your life.” ―Unknown
“Simplicity boils down to two things: identify the essential and eliminate the rest….” ―Leo Babauta
“Deciding what NOT to do is as important as deciding what TO do.” ―Charles Spurgeon
“We should be choosing what we keep – not what we get rid of.” ―Marie Kondo
“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.” ―Charles Spurgeon
“The key is not to prioritise what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” ―Steve Covey
“The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they just make the best of what they have.” ―Unknown
“Stuff has gotten a lot cheaper, but our attitude towards it hasn’t changed correspondingly – we overvalue stuff.” ―Paul Graham
“Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things.” ―Unknown
“Think how joyous each and every day could be when you are making the most of what you have.” ―Chrissy Halton
“Having a schedule that doesn’t fit into your life means you don’t stand a chance of sticking to it.” ―Chrissy Halton
“If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” ―Oprah Winfrey
“Being organized isn’t about getting rid of everything you own or trying to become a different person, it’s about living the way you want to live, but better.” ―Andrew Mellen
Simple Life Quotes About Life And Happiness
“Living with only the bare essentials has not only provided superficial benefits such as the pleasure of a tidy room or the simple ease of cleaning, it has also led to a more fundamental shift. It’s given me a chance to think about what it really means to be happy.” ―Fumio Sasaki
“When simple is more than enough, you will feel happy more than enough!”― Mehmet Murat ildan
“Make your home clean enough to be healthy, but dirty enough to be happy.” ―Unknown
Simple Life Quotes and Sayings
“Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.” —Lao Tzu
“Lead a simple life. First reduce your greeds. Then reduce your needs.” —Ritu Ghatourey
“A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.” —Winston Churchill
“Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty.” —Mahlon Hoagland
“The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.”
“You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.” —Vernon Howard
“One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in.” —Francis Jourdain
“Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.” —Richard Halloway
“Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.” —Charles De Lint
“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand.” —Henry David Thoreau
“We don’t need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it.” —Donald Horban
“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.” —Frederic Chopin
“Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.” —John Kabat-Zinn
“The complexity of your earthly array is not a guarantee for a truimphant eternity. The fact is that you need a simple life to go to heaven; not an excessively glittering body, shiny lips and charming face.”
“The simple life on the farm was everything to me. Nothing was more relaxing after a long plane flight than to reach the winding driveway that led up to my house. The quiet of the night was more soothing than a sleeping pill.” —Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have even lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.” —Henry David Thoreau
“As we live and as we are, Simplicity — with a capital ‘S’ — is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means.” —Frank Lloyd Wright