454 quotes
“A single rose can be my garden and a single friend my world.”
— Leo Buscaglia
“Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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
“Essentialism is not about how to get more things done it is about how to get the right things done”
— Greg McKeown
“Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.”
— Siddhartha Gautama
“When walking, walk. When eating, eat.”
— Zen Proverb
“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity goodness and truth”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Simplicity patience compassion. These three are your greatest treasures leading to peace.”
— Laozi
“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone”
— Alan Watts
“Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity”
— William of Ockham
“True beauty is born of the imperfect”
— Soetsu Yanagi
“The things you own end up owning you simplicity breaks that chain of ownership”
— Joshua Fields Millburn
“It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add but when there is nothing more to remove and that is pure simplicity”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Minimalism is just a tool to rid yourself of unnecessary things so that you can focus on what matters”
— Fumio Sasaki
“Love people and use things because the opposite never works and simplicity makes this clear”
“The question of what you want to own is actually the question of how you want to live your life”
— Marie Kondo
“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance”
— Coco Chanel
“The first step in crafting the life you want is to get rid of everything you dont”
— Joshua Becker
“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 — these are some of the rewards of the simple life.”
— John Burroughs
“To attain knowledge add things every day to attain wisdom remove things every day”
“We make ourselves rich by making our wants few.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you”
— Paramahansa Yogananda
“The key to happiness is the reduction of desires.”
— Amma
“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.”
— Isaac Newton
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life and keeping them simple”
— William Morris
“Simple can be harder than complex”
— Steve Jobs
“There is more to life than increasing its speed and simplicity reveals what that more is”
— Gandhi
“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts”
— Rachel Carson
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
— Mark Twain
“The way of the essentialist is the path of being true to yourself and your highest contribution keeping life simple and focused”
“Be as simple as you can be you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become”
“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.”
— Malala Yousafzai
“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does and keeps his path simple”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
“If it isnt a clear yes then it should be a clear no and that clarity is the gift of simplicity”
“The life of a designer is a life of fight against the ugliness”
— Massimo Vignelli
“Smile breathe and go slowly”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies and small is simple”
— Mother Teresa
“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity and simplicity is the clearest path to service”
“A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.”
— Cicero
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy”
— Dalai Lama
“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”
— Blaise Pascal
“One day I will find the right words and they will be simple”
— Jack Kerouac
“Simplicity patience compassion these three are your greatest treasures”
— Lao Tzu
“Unborn Buddha mind is the most simple and direct truth”
— Bankei
“Knowing how to simplify is one of the most difficult things in the world.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you that would suffice.”
— Meister Eckhart
“The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go”
— Mooji
“A calm mind a fit body and a house full of love cannot be bought they must be earned”
— Naval Ravikant
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the simplest and greatest accomplishment”
“Simplicity is complexity resolved into harmony”
— Constantin Brancusi
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
— Epictetus
“Just this is it”
— Dongshan
“A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. True peace needs no crown.”
— Frederick the Great
“Life is really simple but we insist on making it complicated”
— Confucius
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately”
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace making the complicated simple that is creativity”
— Charles Mingus
“Live simply so that others may simply live”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings”
— Okakura Kakuzo
“The real core of my work is the way light enters a space”
— Peter Zumthor
“Small is beautiful and simple is sustainable”
— E.F. Schumacher
“The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity and the height of simplicity is natural action”
— Bruce Lee
“You are therefore I am”
— Satish Kumar
“Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause and of obstinacy in a bad one”
— Laurence Sterne
“The secret of happiness is not found in seeking more but in developing the capacity to enjoy less”
— Socrates
“If you cannot find the truth right where you are where else do you expect to find it”
— Dogen Zenji
“The most beautiful thing in the world is of course the world itself”
— Wallace Stevens
“I love you without knowing how or when or from where I love you simply without problems or pride”
— Pablo Neruda
“To be great be whole exclude nothing”
— Fernando Pessoa
“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.”
— Helen Keller
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak”
— Hans Hofmann
“Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful”
— John Maeda
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
“Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add but when there is nothing left to take away”
“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone.”
“My religion is very simple my religion is compassion and kindness toward all beings”
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride.”
“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”
— Plato
“Success is not the key to happiness happiness is the key to success”
— Albert Schweitzer
“A life of simplicity is a life of truth and a life of truth needs no defense”
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than one seeks”
— John Muir
“The moment one gives close attention to anything even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious awesome indescribably magnificent world in itself”
— Henry Miller
“Complicating is easy simplifying is difficult”
— Bruno Munari
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know”
— Pema Chodron
“Nothing is so strong as gentleness nothing so gentle as real strength”
— Saint Francis de Sales
“It is not a daily increase but a daily decrease hack away the unessential”
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.”
“When you put your house in order you put your affairs and your past in order too and that process is simple”
“The right time to dine is: for the rich man, when he is hungry; and for the poor man, when he has something to eat.”
— Seneca
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants”
“One can never have enough socks a good pair of thick winter socks can bring one closer to that simple peace of solitude”
— Virginia Woolf
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex”
“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful”
“Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet”
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication in creative work.”
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones simply one at a time”
“Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.”
“The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction”
“Before enlightenment chop wood carry water. After enlightenment chop wood carry water.”
“If you cant explain it simply you dont understand it well enough”
— Albert Einstein
“If you do not prioritize your life someone else will”
“Who looks outside dreams who looks inside awakens”
— Carl Jung
“In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not but rejoices for those which he has through simplicity”
“We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness but happiness is found in simplicity not in escape”
— Leo Babauta
“Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much.”
— Joshua Reynolds
“There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophies my brain and my heart are my temples my philosophy is kindness”
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge”
— Bertrand Russell
“Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.”
“Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty.”
“Minimalism is a tool to get rid of excess in favor of what matters”
“It is not daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away the unessential.”
— Unknown
“He who is contented is rich.”
“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.”
“The world is vast and wide why do you put on your robes at the sound of a bell”
— Yunmen
“To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk — these are some of the rewards of the simple life.”
“A line is a dot that went for a walk”
— Paul Klee
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts and that beauty is found in simplicity”
“In life there are things that make your heart beat faster in delight”
— Sei Shonagon
“Less but better”
— Dieter Rams
“What a liberation to realize that the voice in my head is not who I am and that realization is utterly simple”
— Eckhart Tolle
“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
“Less is more”
— Robert Browning
“Absorb what is useful discard what is not add what is uniquely your own”
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary”
“There are no uninteresting things only uninterested people”
— G.K. Chesterton
“Design is not just what it looks like design is how it works and the best designs work simply”
“The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”
“That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great”
— Willa Cather
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
“When we start to feel the shortage of resources simplicity becomes our greatest teacher”
— D.T. Suzuki
“Owning less is better than organizing more because simplicity beats complexity every time”
“Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury — to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone.”
“Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.”
— Gautama Buddha
“It is not the man who has too little but the man who craves more that is poor simplicity cures that poverty”
“The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed it is a process of simplification”
— Elbert Hubbard
“Better a handful of dried dates and content therewith than to own the Gate of Peacocks and be kicked in the eye by a broody camel.”
“This is my simple religion there is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy just kindness and wonder”
“He is richest who is content with the least, for contentment is the wealth of nature.”
“To live content with small means to seek elegance rather than luxury.”
— Thomas Moore
“Simplicity is the seal of truth.”
— Herman Boerhaave
“The first step in crafting the life you want is to get rid of everything you do not”
“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone and that is the power of simplicity”
“If you want to be happy, be.”
“Everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler”
“Most humans are never fully present in the now because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important simplicity says otherwise”
“When walking walk. When eating eat.”
“If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.”
— Epicurus
“When you reach the top of the mountain keep climbing”
“Truly happy memories always live on shining more and more beautifully in the heart even as time passes”
— Banana Yoshimoto
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain”
— Kahlil Gibran
“Open your arms to change but dont let go of your values keep your life simple by holding what matters”
“The miracle is not to walk on water but to walk on the green earth in the present moment simply and with awareness”
“Right now its like this”
— Ajahn Sumedho
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger more complex and more violent it takes a touch of genius to move in the opposite direction”
“Find the intersection of what you love what you are good at what the world needs and what you can be paid for”
— Ikigai Philosophy
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”
“The contented man can be happy with what appears to be useless.”
— Zhuangzi
“If you meet the Buddha on the road kill him”
— Linji
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
“The three most harmful addictions are heroin carbohydrates and a monthly salary”
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Nature is not a place to visit it is home”
— Gary Snyder
“The whole path of mindfulness is this: whatever you are doing, be aware of it.”
— Dipa Ma
“Simplicity boils down to two steps identify the essential and eliminate the rest”
“The inferno of the living is not something that will be it is what is already here”
— Italo Calvino
“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”
“The best is the enemy of the good”
— Voltaire
“Happiness is a warm puppy.”
— Charles Schulz
“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”
— Karl Barth
“The sage does not hoard the more he gives to others the more he has for himself through simplicity”
“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise seek what they sought”
— Matsuo Basho
“The meaning of life is just to be alive and that is so plain so obvious and so simple yet everyone rushes past this wonder”
“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”
“Be as simple as you can be and you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.”
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
“As you simplify your life the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude poverty will not be poverty”
“The spiritual life is not about acquiring it is about letting go”
“I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter”
“We can do hard things”
— Glennon Doyle
“Design is so simple that is why it is so complicated”
— Paul Rand
“In my designs I try to achieve simplicity by exploiting natural light and the beauty of materials”
— Tadao Ando
“A work needs only to be interesting”
— Donald Judd
“Our lives are frittered away by detail. Simplify simplify and find peace.”
“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library”
— Jorge Luis Borges
“What is the one thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary”
— Gary Keller
“Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself”
“Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction”
— Erich Fromm
“Wealth is the slave of a wise man and the master of a fool simplicity reveals the difference”
“Our life is frittered away by detail so simplify”
“I do the same thing over and over improving bit by bit”
— Jiro Ono
“There is a voice that doesnt use words listen to it for it speaks in simplicity”
— Rumi
“The soul is healed by being with children”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Beauty speaks like an oracle and ever since man has heeded its message in many ways”
— Luis Barragan
“Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.”
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you”
— Maya Angelou
“The secret of happiness you see is not found in seeking more but in developing the capacity to enjoy less”
“Our life in family is frittered away by detail. Simplify simplify.”
“Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished”
“Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.”
“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.”
“And once the storm is over you will not remember how you made it through but you will be transformed”
— Haruki Murakami
“True beauty is not made it is born naturally”
— Sori Yanagi
“How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives”
— Annie Dillard
“Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers”
— Josef Albers
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who cut through argument and doubt to offer a clear solution.”
— Colin Powell
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts”
“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee. One clover and a bee and revery.”
— Emily Dickinson
“Mindfulness isnt difficult. We just need to remember to do it.”
— Sharon Salzberg
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies”
“Receive without conceit release without struggle keep things simple”
“Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.”
— Edwin Way Teale
“Peace is always beautiful.”
— Walt Whitman
“Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony.”
“Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop simply and without regret”
“Peace begins with a smile.”
“The earth has enough for everyones need but not for everyones greed”
— Vandana Shiva
“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend”
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”
“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”
“Before you leave the house look in the mirror and take one thing off simplicity is the final touch”
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.”
“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness and that appreciation is simple”
“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”
— Aesop
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
— William James
“The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty”
— Kenko Yoshida
“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity”
“Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness”
“We think that the more we have the happier we will be but we learn that the opposite is often true”
“The extension of the art of dwelling is the art of living”
— Charlotte Perriand
“If you wish to be a writer write”
“Beginners practice not thinking about whether a thing is good or bad they practice just doing it”
— Huang Po
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are waiting to see us act with beauty and courage”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom”
— Aristotle
“Smile, breathe, and go slowly.”
“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“When hungry eat when tired sleep fools may laugh at me but wise men will know what I mean”
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
“I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees”
“The whole is more than the sum of its parts when we keep things simple enough to see the whole”
“The value of art is in the observer when you find truth you find beauty”
— Agnes Martin
“Be grateful for whoever comes because each has been sent as a guide keep it that simple”
“Colors blind the eye sounds deafen the ear”
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world”
— E.B. White
“The thief left it behind the moon at my window”
— Ryokan
“The art of living is more like navigation than warfare for what is important is to understand the winds and ride the waves simply”
“Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.”
“When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty I think only how to solve the problem”
— Buckminster Fuller
“My religion is very simple my religion is kindness”
“Your daily life is your temple and your religion”
“Everything is sculpture any material any idea without hindrance born into space I consider sculpture”
— Isamu Noguchi
“The living moment is everything”
— D.H. Lawrence
“Everybody is talented original and has something important to say”
— Brenda Ueland
“Super Normal is the result of a long tradition of evolutionary advancement in the shape of everyday things”
— Jasper Morrison
“The mind should be nowhere in particular let it fill the whole body”
— Takuan Soho
“Complexity is your enemy and any fool can make something complicated”
— Richard Branson
“Out of clutter find simplicity from discord find harmony in the middle of difficulty lies opportunity”
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.”
“Emptiness is not nothingness it is a richness of potential”
— Kenya Hara
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone”
“Be as simple as you can be you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated life can become”
“That love is all there is, is all we know of love.”
“Beauty is not in the face beauty is a light in the heart”
— Khalil Gibran
“Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself in your way of thinking”
“Walking and walking the green mountains never end”
— Santoka Taneda
“Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of everything that distracts us from it”
“Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.”
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love”
“One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance”
“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee and revery”
“Simple can be harder than complex you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple”
“Good design is as little design as possible”
“Truly it is in the darkness that one finds the light so when we are in sorrow then this light is nearest of all and it comes simply”
“The meaning of life is just to be alive it is so plain and so obvious and so simple and yet everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves”
“A beautiful thing is never perfect it is simply itself in its natural simplicity”
— Publilius Syrus
“Too lazy to be ambitious I let the world take care of itself”
“It is what it is and it aint nothing else”
— Dan Flavin
“Less but better is the essence of good design and good living”
“Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple”
— C.W. Ceram
“There are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it”
— Edith Wharton
“If the only prayer you say in your entire life is thank you that will suffice because simplicity is enough”
“Stillness is the key to all good things in life”
— Ryan Holiday
“It is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a great deal of it simplicity reclaims that wasted time”
“Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time”
— Hermann Hesse
“Unquiet meals make ill digestions; therefore the happiness of a man's life is to be measured not by the great feasts, but by the frequency of his simple, pleasant repasts.”
— William Shakespeare
“I love you without knowing how or when or from where. I love you simply without problems or pride.”
“Once you fall into a reflective life you discover how little you need”
“The soul of a tree lives on in my furniture”
— George Nakashima
“In nature nothing exists alone and this interconnection is understood best through simple observation”
“Have you eaten your rice porridge Then wash your bowl”
— Joshu
“The height of sophistication is simplicity”
— Clare Boothe Luce
“In limitations he first shows himself the master and the law can only give us freedom through simplicity”
“Simplicity is complexity resolved”
— Brancusi
“A truly great person is one who is simple natural and unpretentious”
— Ikeda Daisaku
“Everyday mind is the way”
— Nansen
“Complexity is your enemy any fool can make something complicated it takes a genius to make something simple”
“One should use common words to say uncommon things.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“The highest form of intelligence is the ability to observe without evaluating”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Design dissolving in behavior is the most supreme form of design”
— Naoto Fukasawa
“The greatest sophistication is found in the simplest things”
“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves is remaining ignorant about our own simplicity”
“Less is only more where more is no good and simplicity knows the difference”
— Frank Lloyd Wright
“The meaning of life is just to be alive it is so plain and so obvious and so simple”
“Sitting quietly doing nothing spring comes and the grass grows by itself”
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched they must be felt with the heart”
“Every day priests minutely examine the law and endlessly chant complicated sutras before doing that though they should learn how to read the love letters sent by the wind and rain the snow and moon”
— Ikkyu
“The peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief”
— Wendell Berry
“Every day is a good day”
— Ummon
“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”
“Creativity is subtraction”
— Austin Kleon
“Less is only more where more is no good”
“Travel light live light spread the light be the light”
— Yogi Bhajan
“One day I will find the right words and they will be simple.”
“The most effective way to do it, is to do it.”
— Amelia Earhart
“Life is simple it is just not easy but simplicity makes even the hard parts bearable”
— William Wordsworth
“I know that I know nothing and in that simple admission lies the beginning of wisdom”
“Having less makes you happier this is one of the simplest and most profound truths of human experience”
“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”
“Simplicity patience and compassion are the three greatest treasures a person can possess”
“Find beauty in imperfection and accept the natural cycle of growth and decay”
— Wabi Sabi Philosophy
“The essence of deep ecology is to ask deeper questions about life”
— Arne Naess
“Before we can talk about simplicity we must understand complexity”
— Konosuke Matsushita
“Drink your tea slowly and reverently as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves slowly and simply”
“I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen.”
“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops but the cultivation and perfection of human beings”
— Masanobu Fukuoka
“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that is your own self”
— Aldous Huxley
“It is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a great deal of it”
— Tolstoy
“Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.”
“Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in few”
— Pythagoras
“God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper”
— Alvar Aalto
“A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”
“Our life is frittered away by detail simplify simplify”
“If it is not a clear yes then it is a clear no”
— Derek Sivers
“To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
— Jane Austen
“In the end it is not the years in your life that count it is the life in your years”
— Abraham Lincoln
“The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming not for the person we were in the past”
“The duty of delight is to find beauty and simplicity in everyday things”
— Dorothy Day
“For the simplicity that lies this side of complexity I would not give a fig but for the simplicity that lies on the other side I would give my life”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
“In the end these things matter most how well did you love how fully did you live how deeply did you let go”
— Jack Kornfield
“A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most complete prayer.”
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become”
— James Clear
“Before enlightenment chop wood carry water After enlightenment chop wood carry water”
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself.”
“The more simple we are, the more complete we become.”
— Auguste Rodin
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life”
“Nothing is more simple than greatness indeed to be simple is to be great”
“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do”
— Thomas Jefferson
“Live each present moment completely and the future will take care of itself enjoy life simply”
“As you start to walk on the way the way appears and the way is always simple”
“The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.”
— Steve Maraboli
“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”
“Accept everything just the way it is”
— Miyamoto Musashi
“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony”
— Thomas Merton
“Do small things with great love and keep your intentions simple and pure”
“The peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.”
“A book is a mirror if an ass peers into it you cannot expect an apostle to look out”
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“Less is more in art in life and in the pursuit of meaning”
“Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life”
“In the beginners mind there are many possibilities in the experts mind there are few”
— Shunryu Suzuki
“When you love someone the best thing you can offer is your presence and that offering is beautifully simple”
“To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.”
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion.”
— William Ellery Channing
“Excellence is not a singular act but a habit developed through simple consistent practice”
“Besides the noble art of getting things done there is the noble art of leaving things undone”
“Do nothing which is of no use”
“With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.”
— Lope de Vega
“The simplest things are often the truest.”
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“The more you know the less you need”
— Yvon Chouinard
“The simplicity on the other side of complexity is worth more than the simplicity before it”
“Simplicity is the glory of expression”
“In this world we walk on the roof of heaven gazing at flowers”
— Kobayashi Issa
“Simplicity is the key to brilliance”
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication and the simplest things hold the deepest wonder”
“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything”
— Warren Buffett
“The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.”
— Julius Charles Hare
“Life is really simple but we insist on making it complicated.”
“You can observe a lot by watching”
— Yogi Berra
“Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth you owe me”
— Hafiz
“Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens”
“The rain has stopped the clouds have drifted away and the weather is clear again”
“Own only what you can always carry with you. Let your memory be your travel bag and find peace in traveling light.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“I would have written a shorter letter but I did not have the time because brevity requires simplicity”
“Simplify simplify simplify”
— Thoreau
“God is in the details”
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“The world is not to be put in order the world is order incarnate”
“Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished through simplicity”
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity”
— Simone Weil
“I apologize for such a long letter I did not have time to write a short one”
“Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end then stop. This is the simplest creative advice.”
— Lewis Carroll
“Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.”
— Michelangelo
“Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design and in life simplicity cures it”
“Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.”
— Thomas à Kempis
“Simplicity is the nature of great souls.”
— Papa Ramadas
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