Simplicity Quotes
May these inspirational quotes on simplicity inspire you to simplify your life! Compiled by Stress Relief by a Simple Lifeto front only the essential facts of life,
and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not,
when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
Henry David Thoreau
"To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world."
Charles Dudley Warner
"Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires."
Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things."
Robert Brault
"Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food."
Frank A. Clark
"Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like."
Will Rogers
"The best things in life are nearest:
Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"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
"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
"Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling,
a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way
of the best happiness."
Frederich Nietzsche
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
Leonardo DaVinci