Simplicity Sayings and Quotes
Sayings about Simplicity
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates 
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
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If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato
Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
- Lao-Tzu
Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity,
reduce selfishness, have few desires.
- Lao Tzu
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
He who can give thanks for little
will always find he has enough.
- Anonymous
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
- Amelia Barr
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
What we enjoy constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
Every increased possession
loads us with a new weariness.
- John Ruskin
We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- Henry David Thoreau
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste
that they hurry past it.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
He who knows that enough is enough
will always have enough.
- Lao Tzu
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants,
and to serve them one's self?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To live a pure unselfish life,
one must count nothing as one's own
in the midst of abundance.
- The Buddha
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your children need your presence
more than your presents.
- Jesse Jackson
Whoever does not regard what he has
as most ample wealth, is unhappy,
though he be master of the world.
- Epictetus
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
- Henry David Thoreau
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
It is neither wealth nor splendor;
but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
You can always do one thing less than you think you can.
- Anonymous
We hardly ever realize that we can
cut anything out of our lives,
anytime, in the blink of an eye.
- Carlos Castaneda
All philosophy lies in two words,
sustain and abstain.
- Epictetus
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
Short words are best
and the old words, when short, are best of all.
- Winston Churchill
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin;
what else does a man need to be happy?
- Albert Einstein
Priorities - what's really important -
health, and doing what one wants to do -
it's certainly not money.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
Do not trouble yourself much
to get new things, whether clothes or friends...
Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
- Henry David Thoreau
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Three Rules of Work:
Out of clutter find simplicity;
From discord find harmony;
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein
The man who is awakened, lives in such a way
that he leaves no footprints.
- Osho quoting The Buddha
Nature Sayings
There is sanctuary in being alone with nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Trees are the earth's endless effort
to speak to the listening heaven.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
Flowers are Nature's messengers -
reminders of an unspeakable beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature hates calculators.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is not human hearted.
- Lao Tzu
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Every blade of grass has an angel
that bends over it and whispers, "grow! grow!
- Talmud
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
Nature never breaks her own laws.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
- Henry David Thoreau
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
Water is the driving force of all nature.
- Leonardo da Vinci
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
- John Muir
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Joy in looking and comprehending
is nature's most beautiful gift.
- Albert Einstein
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Francis Bacon
Thoughts come clearly while one walks.
- Thomas Mann
Every creature is a word of God.
- Meister Eckhart
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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