138 Quotes On Simplicity

In a world constantly vying for our attention with its complexities and distractions, the allure of simplicity stands out more than ever. There's a profound beauty in embracing the simple things in life, whether it's a clutter-free space, a serene moment of peace, or a straightforward solution to a problem. Quotes on simplicity inspire us to appreciate the essence of being minimalistic and focused. We’ve curated a collection of the top 138 quotes that capture the essence of simplicity, distilling wisdom from a spectrum of thinkers and doers who cherish the uncomplicated. Dive in, and let these insights remind you of the elegance found in simplicity.

1. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” - Clare Boothe Luce

2. “Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.” - Henry David Thoreau

3. “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

4. “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

5. “Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.” - Natalie Babbitt

6. “Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.” - Alexandre Dumas

7. “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” - E.F. Schumacher

8. “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.” - Albert Einstein

9. “Stephen Covey, in his book The 8th Habit, decribes a poll of 23,000 employees drawn from a number of companies and industries. He reports the poll's findings: * Only 37 percent said they have a clear understanding of what their organization is trying to achieve and why * Only one in five was enthusiastic about their team's and their organization's goals * Only one in five said they had a clear "line of sight" between their tasks and their team's and organization's goals * Only 15 percent felt that their organization fully enables them to execute key goals * Only 20 percent fully trusted the organization they work forThen, Covey superimposes a very human metaphor over the statistics. He says, "If, say, a soccer team had these same scores, only 4 of the 11 players on the field would know which goal is theirs. Only 2 of the 11 would care. Only 2 of the 11 would know what position they play and know exactly what they are supposed to do. And all but 2 players would, in some way, be competing against their own team members rather than the opponent.” - Chip Heath & Dan Heath

10. “Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.” - John Maeda

11. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” - Confucius

12. “Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires.” - Lao Tzu

13. “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” - Jack Kerouac

14. “Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.” - Langston Hughes

15. “There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.” - Leo Tolstoy

16. “Vices are simply overworked virtues, anyway. Economy and frugality are to be commended but follow them on in an increasing ratio and what do we find at the other end? A miser! If we overdo the using of spare moments we may find an invalid at the end, while perhaps if we allowed ourselves more idle time we would conserve our nervous strength and health to more than the value the work we could accomplish by emulating at all times the little busy bee. I once knew a woman, not very strong, who to the wonder of her friends went through a time of extraordinary hard work without any ill effects. I asked her for her secret and she told me that she was able to keep her health, under the strain, because she took 20 minutes, of each day in which to absolutely relax both mind and body. She did not even “set and think.” She lay at full length, every muscle and nerve relaxed and her mind as quiet as her body. This always relieved the strain and renewed her strength.” - Laura Ingalls Wilder

17. “A child of five could understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.” - Groucho Marx

18. “It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.” - Bruce Lee

19. “I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favour of doing it.” - Henry James

20. “What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer. ” - William Albert Allard

21. “We see a lot of feature-driven product design in which the cost of features is not properly accounted. Features can have a negative value to customers because they make the products more difficult to understand and use. We are finding that people like products that just work. It turns out that designs that just work are much harder to produce that designs that assemble long lists of features.” - Douglas Crockford

22. “We two make banquets of the plainest fareIn every cup we find the thrill of pleasure... For us life always moves with lilting measureWe two, we two, we make our world, our pleasure” - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

23. “Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

24. “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, best for both the body and the mind.” - Albert Einstein

25. “I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run. ” - Henry David Thoreau

26. “While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life.” - Brennan Manning

27. “The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, 'If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.'Said [author:Diogenes|3213618, 'Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king".” - Anthony de Mello

28. “The greatest ideas are the simplest.” - William Golding

29. “The point of simple living, for me has got to be:A soft place to landA wide margin of errorRoom to breatheLots of places to find baseline happiness in each and every day” - Leo Babauta

30. “The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.” - Steve Maraboli

31. “Free yourself from the complexities of your life! A life of simplicity and happiness awaits you.” - Steve Maraboli

32. “Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual.” - Steve Maraboli

33. “Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.” - Joanne Harris

34. “Because . . . most of us think that the point is something to do with work, or kids, or family, or whatever. But you don't have any of that. There's nothing between you and despair, and you don't seem a very desperate person.' 'Too stupid.' 'You're not stupid. So why don't you ever put your head in the oven?' 'I don't know. There's always a new Nirvana album to look forward to, or something happening in NYPD Blue to make you want to watch the next episode.' 'Exactly.' 'That's the point? NYPD Blue? Jesus.' It was worse than he thought. 'No, no. The point is you keep going. You want to. So all the things that make you want to are the point. I don't know if you even realize it, but on the quiet you don't think life's too bad. You love things. Telly. Music. Food.” - Nick Hornby

35. “..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.” - Muhammad Yunus

36. “There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back to the simple duties and interests we have slighted and forgotten. Our world grows smaller, but it grows dearer and greater. Simple things have a new charm for us, and we suddenly realize that we have been renouncing all that is greatest and best, in our pursuit of some phantom.” - William George Jordan

37. “People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.” - Thomas Sowell

38. “The eastern sky was red as coals in a forge, lighting up the flats along the river. Dew had wet the million needles of the chaparral, and when the rim of the sun edged over the horizon the chaparral seemed to be spotted with diamonds. A bush in the backyard was filled with little rainbows as the sun touched the dew.It was tribute enough to sunup that it could make even chaparral bushes look beautiful, Augustus thought, and he watched the process happily, knowing it would only last a few minutes. The sun spread reddish-gold light through the shining bushes, among which a few goats wandered, bleating. Even when the sun rose above the low bluffs to the south, a layer of light lingered for a bit at the level of the chaparral, as if independent of its source. The the sun lifted clear, like an immense coin. The dew quickly died, and the light that filled the bushes like red dirt dispersed, leaving clear, slightly bluish air.It was good reading light by then, so Augustus applied himself for a few minutes to the Prophets. He was not overly religious, but he did consider himself a fair prophet and liked to study the styles of his predecessors. They were mostly too long-winded, in his view, and he made no effort to read them verse for verse—he just had a look here and there, while the biscuits were browning.” - Larry McMurtry

39. “Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.” - Sivananda

40. “Ask a true scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will besilent. Ask a true religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied.” - Kedar Joshi

41. “It was a simple thing. All terror is a simplicity. ("Interval In Sunlight")” - Ray Bradbury

42. “I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.” - Albert Einstein

43. “ One of the purest souls ever to live on this fallen planet was Nicholas Herman, known as Brother Lawrence. He wrote very little, but what he wrote has seemed to several generations of Christians to be so rare and so beautiful as to deserve a place near the top among the world's great books of devotion. The writings of Brother Lawrence are the ultimate in simplicity; ideas woven like costly threads to make a pattern of great beauty. ” - A.W. Tozer

44. “I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.” Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. . . . Then he was sorry for the great fish that had nothing to eat and his determination to kill him never relaxed in his sorrow for him. . . . There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity. I do not understand these things, he thought. But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.” - Ernest Hemingway

45. “Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy” - Isaac Newton

46. “When Van Gogh was a young man in his early twenties, he was in London studying to be a clergyman. He had no thought of being an artist at all. he sat in his cheap little room writing a letter to his younger brother in Holland, whom he loved very much. He looked out his window at a watery twilight, a thin lampost, a star, and he said in his letter something like this: "it is so beautiful I must show you how it looks." And then on his cheap ruled note paper, he made the most beautiful, tender, little drawing of it. When I read this letter of Van Gogh's it comforted me very much and seemed to throw a clear light on the whole road of Art. Before, I thought that to produce a work of painting or literature, you scowled and thought long and ponderously and weighed everything solemnly and learned everything that all artists had ever done aforetime, and what their influences and schools were, and you were extremely careful about *design* and *balance* and getting *interesting planes* into your painting, and avoided, with the most astringent severity, showing the faintest *acedemical* tendency, and were strictly modern. And so on and so on.But the moment I read Van Gogh's letter I knew what art was, and the creative impulse. It is a feeling of love and enthusiasm for something, and in a direct, simple, passionate and true way, you try to show this beauty in things to others, by drawing it.And Van Gogh's little drawing on the cheap note paper was a work of art because he loved the sky and the frail lamppost against it so seriously that he made the drawing with the most exquisite conscientiousness and care. ” - Brenda Ueland

47. “Why did they believe? Because they saw miracles. Things one man took as chance, a man of faith took as a sign. A loved one recovering from disease, a fortunate business deal, a chance meeting with a long lost friend. It wasn't the grand doctrines or the sweeping ideals that seemed to make believers out of men. It was the simple magic in the world around them.” - Brandon Sanderson

48. “The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with.”(Analects 4.9)” - Confucius

49. “The Master said, “Wealth and honor are things that all people desire, and yet unless they are acquired in the proper way I will not abide them. Poverty and disgrace are things that all people hate, and yet unless they are avoided in the proper way I will not despise them. “If the gentleman abandons ren, how can he be worthy of that name? The gentleman does not violate ren even for the amount of time required to eat a meal. Even in times of urgency or distress, he does not depart from it.”(Analects 4.5)” - Confucius

50. “I long for the simplicity of theatre. I want lessons learned, comeuppances delivered, people sorted out, all before your bladder gets distractingly full. That's what I want. What I know is what we all know, whether we'll admit it or not: every attempt to impose the roundness of a well-made play on reality produces a disaster. Life just isn't so, nor will it be made so.” - John M. Ford

51. “At times his arrogance did resolve itself into simplicity, though it was difficult, especially for strangers, to distinguish these occasions.” - Patrick White

52. “Small Moth...She's slicing ripe white peachesinto the Tony the Tiger bowland dropping slivers for the dogpoised vibrating by her foot to stop their fallwhen she spots it, camouflaged,a glimmer and then full on-happiness, plashing blunt soft wingsinside her as if it wantsto escape again.” - Sarah Lindsay

53. “Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.” - Henry David Thoreau

54. “I delight to come to my bearings,—not walk in procession with pomp and parade, in a conspicuous place, but to walk even with the Builder of the universe, if I may,—not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sit thoughtfully while it goes by. What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator. I love to weigh, to settle, to gravitate toward that which most strongly and rightfully attracts me;—not hang by the beam of the scale and try to weigh less,—not suppose a case, but take the case that is” - Henry David Thoreau

55. “Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.” - Rousseau Jean - Jacques

56. “Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.” - Isaac Newton

57. “Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.” - George Eliot

58. “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

59. “A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.” - Confucius

60. “You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only when it has recognized that thing as the sign of another thing: a print in the sand indicates the tiger's passage; a marsh announces a vein of water; the hibiscus flower, the end of winter. All the rest is silent and interchangeable; trees and stones are only what they are.” - Italo Calvino

61. “Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.” - Ann Voskamp

62. “My task is to simplify and then go deeper, making a commitment to what remains. That's what I've been after. To care and polish what remains till it glows and comes alive from loving care.” - Sue Bender

63. “I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.” - A. Lee Martinez

64. “They think I’m simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn’t I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe that’s the key: simple.” - Dolly Parton

65. “Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this kind of virtue has not been outlived even today. A kind of sturdy peasant simplicity, which, however, is possible in all classes and can be encountered only with respect and a smile, believes even today that everything is in good hands, namely in the "hands of God"; and when it maintains this proportion with the same modest certainty as it would that two and two make four, we others certainly refrain from contradicting. Why disturb THIS pure foolishness? Why darken it with our worries about man, people, goal, future? And even if we wanted to do it, we could not. They project their own honorable stupidity and goodness into the heart of things (the old God, deus myops, still lives among them!); we others — we read something else into the heart of things: our own enigmatic nature, our contradictions, our deeper, more painful, more mistrustful wisdom.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

66. “Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity's the real challenge.” - Robert James Waller

67. “[Tea-masters] have given emphasis to our natural love of simplicity, and shown us the beauty of humility. In fact, through their teachings tea has entered the life of the people.” - Kakuzo Okakura

68. “Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.” - Criss Jami

69. “What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.” - Criss Jami

70. “Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.” - Criss Jami

71. “What’s the most difficult thing you can do? Live simply. ‘Cause in order to be self-sufficient, you got to get well near everybody else to work for you.” - M.C. Humphreys

72. “History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.” - Jared Diamond

73. “It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving. . . . The Indians in their simplicity literally give away all that they have—to relatives, to guests of other tribes or clans, but above all to the poor and the aged, from whom they can hope for no return.” - Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa)

74. “You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight into our hearts.” - Cochise ("Like Ironweed")

75. “Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.” - Herbert A. Simon

76. “Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies.” - Derek Landy

77. “But I should not have to explain to you how important it is for science and simplicity to coexist. One must not fear to be a little child again, when times of wonder are at hand.” - Jody Lynn Nye

78. “Simplicities are enormously complex. Consider the sentence "I love you".” - Richard O. Moore

79. “Everything seems simpler from a distance.” - Gail Tsukiyama

80. “I want a simple, ordinary life . . . like humans enjoy.” - Deborah Harkness

81. “To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity, indoor plumbing, central heating, instant electronic communication and such, have taught me to relearn and enjoy the basic human satisfactions of dipping water from a cold clear mountain stream; of building a wood fire in a cast-iron stove; of using long winter nights for making music, making things, making love; of writing long letters, in longhand with a fountain pen, to the few people on this earth I truly care about.” - Edward Abbey

82. “If you are a warrior, decency means that you are not cheating anybody at all. You are not even about to cheat anybody. There is a sense of straightforwardness and simplicity. With setting-sun vision, or vision based on cowardice, straightforwardness is always a problem. If people have some story or news to tell somebody else, first of all they are either excited or disappointed. Then they begin to figure out how to tell their news. They develop a plan, which leads them completely away from simply telling it. By the time a person hears the news, it is not news at all, but opinion. It becomes a message of some kind, rather than fresh, straightforward news. Decency is the absence of strategy. It is of utmost importance to realize that the warrior’s approach should be simple-minded sometimes, very simple and straightforward. That makes it very beautiful: you having nothing up your sleeve; therefore a sense of genuineness comes through. That is decency.” - CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

83. “Once we got to eating, the idea of happiness returned to me. Not the feeling, the idea. Would a regular girl be happy simply eating a hot meal with a great deal of chew to it? Maybe happiness is a simple thing. Maybe it's as simple as the salty taste of pork, and the vast deal of chewing in it, and how, when the chew is gone, you can still scrape at the bone with your bottom teeth and suck at the marrow.” - Franny Billingsley

84. “These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.” - Laura Ingalls Wilder

85. “Then on your tombstone, where you only get a little bit of space to sum up your life, some wax-faced creep chisels a set of meaningless numbers instead of poetry or a secret love or the name of your favorite candy. In the end, all you get is a few words.” - Scott Nicholson

86. “The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.” - Criss Jami

87. “In simplicity there is truth.” - River Phoenix

88. “A person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things.” - Barbara Taylor Bradford

89. “One should use common words to say uncommon things” - Arthur Schopenhauer

90. “None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.” - Henry David Thoreau

91. “We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.” - Nelson Goodman

92. “We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.” - Ray Bradbury

93. “To simplify your life, just think of yourself as a four-year-old child. Try to imagine the way he thinks of reality. If you have to talk to someone about a so-called complicated matter, see how you can simplify it.No matter with whom you are talking, feel that you are a child and that person is also a child. When a childlike quality comes into your life, everything automatically becomes simple.” - Sri Chinmoy

94. “If we have a simple existence, we shall feel how happy and how fortunate we are. There are some people who are of the opinion that simplicity is almost tantamount to stupidity. But simplicity and stupidity are like the North Pole and the South Pole. One can be as simple as a child and, at the same time, one can have boundless knowledge, light and wisdom.” - Sri Chinmoy

95. “Do you want to be happy?Then make your life as soulfully simple As sleeplessly breathing.” - Sri Chinmoy

96. “Wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ and to know that I love Him--this is all!” - Elizabeth Prentiss

97. “A simple man will have only what he needs, and he will know the difference between what he needs and what he wants. We feel that whatever we want, we desperately need. But before we possess the world, to our wide surprise we see that the world has already possessed us.” - Sri Chinmoy

98. “Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.” - G.K. Chesterton

99. “Love the moment for its simplicity, it may give or take nothing from you, but in the blinking of an eye it will have change so many things forever.” - Steven Redhead

100. “The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.” - Swami Vivekananda

101. “It's easy to be heavy; hard to be light.” - G.K. Chesterton

102. “We never know how strongly we cling to objects until they are taken away, and he who thinks htat he is attached to nothing, is frequently grandly mistaken, being bound to a thousand things, unknown to himself.” - Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte

103. “A rose lay open in full bloomand, looking from my garden room,I watched the sun-baked flower fill with rain.It seemed so fragile,resting there,and such a silence filled the air,the beauty of the moment caused me pain."What more?" I thought. "There must be more."As if in answer then, I sawone weighty drop that caused my rose to fall.It trembled, then cascaded downto earth just staining gentle brownand, since then, I've felt different.That's all.” - Julie Andrews

104. “Penny knew also she loved the country for its beauty. Cities could be magnificent, astounding, fantastic, but they were not consistently beautiful and simple. Penny liked uncomplicated beauty.” - Dorothy Deming

105. “I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing—to be clear. I have given up all thought of writing poetically or symbolically or experimentally, or in any of the other modes that might (if I were good enough) get me a Pulitzer prize. I would write merely clearly and in this way establish a warm relationship between myself and my readers, and the professional critics—Well, they can do whatever they wish.” - Isaac Asimov

106. “The Amish are islands of sanity in a whirlpool of change.” - Nancy Sleeth

107. “Take a walk outside - it will serve you far more than pacing around in your mind.” - Rasheed Ogunlaru

108. “From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.” - Jiddu Krishnamurti

109. “In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.” - Tennessee Williams

110. “I beseech you, little brothers, that you be as wise as brother Daisy and brother dandelion; for never do they lie awake thinking of tomorrow, yet they have gold crowns like kings and emperors or like Charlemagne in all his glory.” - G.K. Chesterton

111. “A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.” - Joseph Conrad

112. “In normal life, "simplicity" is synonymous with "easy to do," but when a chef uses the word, it means "takes a lifetime to learn.” - Bill Buford

113. “I do not particularly like the word 'work.' Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and I think that is the most ridiculous thing in the world. Other animals make their livings by living, but people work like crazy, thinking that they have to in order to stay alive. The bigger the job, the greater the challenge, the more wonderful they think it is. It would be good to give up that way of thinking and live an easy, comfortable life with plenty of free time. I think that the way animals live in the tropics, stepping outside in the morning and evening to see if there is something to eat, and taking a long nap in the afternoon, must be a wonderful life. For human beings, a life of such simplicity would be possible if one worked to produce directly his daily necessities. In such a life, work is not work as people generally think of it, but simply doing what needs to be done.” - Masanobu Fukuoka

114. “Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things. We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy. 'We buy things we do not want to impress people we do not like'. Where planned obsolescence leaves off, psychological obsolescence takes over. We are made to feel ashamed to wear clothes or drive cars until they are worn out. The mass media have convinced us that to be out of step with fashion is to be out of step with reality. It is time we awaken to the fact that conformity to a sick society is to be sick. Until we see how unbalanced our culture has become at this point, we will not be able to deal with the mammon spirit within ourselves nor will we desire Christian simplicity.” - Richard J. Foster

115. “To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple.” - Dejan Stojanovic

116. “It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.” - David Levithan

117. “My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one.” - Dejan Stojanovic

118. “Mediocrity comforts the masses. Mediocrity is a likeable attribute.” - Shobhaa De

119. “SIMPLICITY is practicing a lifestyle that is increasingly free of excess, greed, covetousness, and other forms of dependence on the things of this world. The Holy Spirit works through simplicity to release spiritual gifts such as hospitality, mercy, and giving... to live free of anxiety, and to better take care of this Earth.” - Siang-Yang Tan

120. “If we think we will have joy only by praying and singing psalms, we will be disillusioned. But if we fill our lives with simple good things and constantly thank God for them, we will be joyful, that is, full of joy. And what about our problems? When we determine to dwell on the good and excellent things in life, we will be so full of those things that they will tend to swallow our problems.” - Richard J. Foster

121. “A slight concussion of the brain simplifies matters so beautifully.("Three O'Clock")” - Cornell Woolrich

122. “Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.” - Bryant McGill

123. “It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become difficult.” - Richard Brautigan

124. “Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.” - Neil deGrasse Tyson

125. “Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.” - Brian Herbert

126. “I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.” - Victor Hugo

127. “It was as simple as that - they met. As simple as only beautiful things can be beautiful, as only life-changing things, turning-point things, can be simple.("For The Rest Of Her Life")” - Cornell Woolrich

128. “You cannot pour more water into a full cup without causing a spillage.” - Rasheed Ogunlaru

129. “Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend.” - Criss Jami

130. “prepare your food in keeping with monastic traditions—simple, basic, healthy, balanced.” - Mary DeTurris Poust

131. “It is so dam difficult to be simple.” - Valquiria Oliveira

132. “Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the meaning of empty. Life was simple. Her husband returned and she served him with indifferent patience this time. When he asked what had happened to her heat for him, she gestured to the west.The sun was setting. The sky was a body of fire.” - Louise Erdrich

133. “You can have a less chaotic, simpler life working with what you already have and transforming it into what you really need.” - Sandy Kreps

134. “There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.” - E.A. Bucchianeri

135. “The way towards simplicity is through outrage.” - William Golding

136. “A condition of complete simplicity(Costing not less than everything)” - T.S. Eliot

137. “Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being.” - Bryant McGill

138. “We must plant trees, grow gardens instead of lawns, ride bicycles when we can and support responsible local businesses over big brands.” - Bryant McGill