Top 1200 Simple Living Quotes & Sayings

In a logically perfect language, there will be one word and no more for every simple object, and everything that is not simple will be expressed by a combination of words, by a combination derived, of course, from the words for the simple things that enter in, one word for each simple component.

It's simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others.

If it's simple simple, it's boring. We try for the idea that is so simple that it will make you think and rethink.

All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly deconstructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place; and if the simple can be an adequate medium of such complexity, then it cannot after all be as simple as all that.

I want to sing simple things for the simple lives of simple people.

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.

Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

Kansas City - it's simple living. It has everything that I need.

People, the common people, can genuinely see what I'm doing. Moreover, people know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence. These are the four principles I adopted at the very beginning and continue to use until now. People see this and give me donations.

There are transitional forms between the metals and non-metals; between chemical combinations and simple mixtures, between animals and plants, between phanerogams and cryptogams, and between mammals and birds [...]. The improbability may henceforth be taken for granted of finding in Nature a sharp cleavage between all that is masculine on the one side and all that is feminine on the other; or that any living being is so simple in this respect that it can be put wholly on one side, or wholly on the other, of the line.

First of all, merely by living a simple life with a heart dedicated to overcoming self-cherishing, we automatically benefit others.

Living simply makes loving simple.

I don't compare shows. It's very simple. I don't live in the past. If there's any secret to my longevity, it's living in the future. And a little bit in the present.

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.

Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true.

The essence of voluntary simplicity is living in a way what is outwardly simple and inwardly rich.

The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes.

I think there's something in common with the OSS 117 movies. The big difference is there's no irony in this one. It's not parody. I tried to make it very simple. It's a simple story, but to be simple, it's very complex in the way it's done.

But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.

You can't believe how hard it is for people to be simple, how much they fear being simple. They worry that if they're simple, people will think they're simpleminded. In reality, of course, it's just the reverse. Clear, tough-minded people are the most simple.

Saying that you love is easy, but living up to those simple words is the most difficult thing you'll ever do.

It's simple, it's not that simple; or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does not understand it, he tends to inflate it. When he does, he tends to deflate it. In the end, neither images are fully accurate.

Living isn't a simple thing...no one said it's supposed to be.

It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.

The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.

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

She studied my face for a long minute. "Are you going to help my mom?" It was a simple question. But how do you tell a child that things just aren't that simple, that some questions don't have simple answers--or any answer at all?

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

The wisdom that living brings, since I got a telegram from the God of simple things.

The Alps are a simple folk, living on a diet of old shoes. And the Lord Alps those who alp themselves.

Real wisdom is simple. Living life rightly does not have to be a complicated challenge.

Zen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience.

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.

All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.

To live without that enchantment of beauty is to interpret frugality and simple living with a puritan literalism

What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living it?

I keep things real simple because I know where I came from and I don't ever want to go back to that way of living.

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

By 'Love' people mean a certain kind of monopoly understanding a simple fact: that the moment you possess a living being you have killed him.

...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily.

Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.

There's something to be said for going back to a simple form of living-nature and family. There's something very...there's safety in that.

We just sang real simple songs in a simple way that got to people. We didn't try to tart them up with orchestral arrangements and all the stuff. We were all blues fanatics. We like R+B and blues and simple, gut-feeling music.

I hate the present modes of living and getting a living. Farming and shopkeeping and working at a trade or profession are all odious to me. I should relish getting my living in a simple, primitive fashion.

People know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence.

Historically Indians have been frugal in terms of living, using only as much is required. Now convenience has taken over our simple and sustainable ways of living. We used to wash clothes with our hands, we used buckets and a mug for bath, there was emphasis on ventilation - but all that is lost to the fast pace of living.

Football. It sounds simple, but it's always been the case - I don't see myself living without playing.

I have tried (I am not sure how successfully) to write plain tales. I dare not say they are simple; there is not a simple page, a simple word, on earth -\-\ for all pages, all words, predicate the universe, whose most notorious attribute is its complexity.

In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living.

By dwelling on negativity, we prevent ourselves from living in the simple state of well-being.

C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming, and yet isn't the lean system programming language that C is that actively encourages you to use simple and direct constructs.

If you say that you're a king, queen, god or goddess and you recognize that you're from ancestral greatness, you have to start living up to that. It's really just that simple.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna

It confuses me that Christian living is not simpler. The gospel, the very good news, is simple.

Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

Too many commercials. Too many lies. Too many celebrities. I don't recognize. Too many brand names. Too many magazines. I got so much sensation, I can't feel a thing. Simple. Living. Got to get to simple - living. Simple living. Simple... simply living.

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.

There's something really simple and idyllic about living in a house very close to the water.

We should choose simple ways of living... to live in harmony with nature by adopting simpler technologies and using natural resources innovatively.