Living A Simple Life Quotes

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

Henry David Thoreau

Life, Business, Simple

Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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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

Inspirational, Life, Positive

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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

Vernon Howard

Life, Happiness, Success

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

William James

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Life, Success

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There is nothing more beautiful than living a simple life in this complex universe!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Life, Beautiful, Simple

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The simplest things are often the truest.

Richard Bach

Simple, Simplicity, Less Is More

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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Laozi

Inspirational, Motivational, Patience

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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

Lin Yutang

Motivational, Time, Art

"Pearls of Wisdom: A Harvest of Quotations From All Ages" by Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze, (p. 46), 1987.

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I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Believe, Simple

Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.227, Princeton University Press

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Live simply so that others may simply live.

Mahatma Gandhi

Spiritual, Simple, Diversity

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The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.

Doris Janzen Longacre

Life, Simple, Garden

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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Sweet, Real, Simple

Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (1991). “Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Confucius

Inspirational, Life, Positive

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A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

James Allen

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

James Allen (2015). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.7, BookRix

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Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Motivational, Peace

Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.

William Watson Purkey

Inspirational, Life, Dance

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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

Laozi

Inspirational, Selfish, Simple

Tao-te Ching ch. 19 (translation byWing-Tsit Chan)

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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

William Morris

Life, Happiness, Beauty

Hopes and Fears for Art "The Beauty of Life" (1882)

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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Unknown

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Dec 25, 2011

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A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational Life, Simple, Thinking

Eleanor Roosevelt (1938). “My Days”

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Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

Edwin Way Teale

Life, Simple, Greed

Edwin Way Teale (1953). “Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year”

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