Here are 39 Simple Living Quotes to help you find motivation to restructure your life, develop gratitude, and give thanks.
Write them down and journal about them. The point is to spend time in reflection and decide what is best for you to live a simple, calm life. If you like quotes, please check out my quotes page or my articles on mindset and motivation.
Simple Living Quotes
- “The simplest things are often the truest.” – Richard Bach
- “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “Less is more.” – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- “Simplicity is the essence of happiness.” – Cedric Bledsoe
- “Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.” – Coco Chanel
- “The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.” – Henry Ward Beecher
- “Simplicity is the glory of expression.” – Walt Whitman
- “The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” – Hans Hofmann
- “In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.” – Charles Dudley Warner
Living Simply
Living simply involves cherishing what truly matters and reducing the unnecessary, whether it’s belongings or obligations. It’s about being mindful of how you invest your resources – time, money, and energy. Simplifying your life means decluttering and holding onto only what brings you joy or serves a purpose.
Choosing memories over possessions: Cherish meaningful moments, connections, and self-improvement over collecting material possessions.
Streamlining your schedule: Focus on key activities and relationships and politely decline unnecessary obligations to simplify your life.
Embracing mindfulness: Living in the present and finding joy in life’s simple pleasures like nature, relationships, and personal interests.
Choose quality over quantity, reduce waste, and make mindful consumption choices. Find joy in what you already possess instead of always wanting more. Be wise with your spending, stay debt-free, and live within your means.
Discover your true passions and live a purposeful life aligned with your values and dreams.
- “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
- “The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.” – Douglas Horton
- “Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.” – John Maeda
- “Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.” – Leo Babauta
- “Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.” – Katharine Fullerton Gerould
- “The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” – Socrates
- “It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.” – Seneca
- “Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art.” – Richard Holloway
- “Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.” – Paul Rand
- “The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.” – Steve Maraboli
- “I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.” – Lao Tzu
- “Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.” – George Sand
- “The greatest truths are the simplest: so likewise are the greatest men.” – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare
- “To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.” – Bruce Lee
- “The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” – Plato
- “Simplicity is the key to brilliance.” – Bruce Lee
- “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” – Robert Brault
- “The simplest things are often the truest.” – Richard Bach
- “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Clare Boothe Luce
- Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu
- “Simplicity is the friend of execution.” – Seema Hingoranny
- “To live a pure, unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.” – Buddha
- “Simplicity is prerequisites of reliability.” – Edsger W. Dijkstra
- “The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.” – Douglas Horton
- “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” – Albert Einstein
- “Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.” – Lao Tzu
- “The expression of truth is simplicity.” – Seneca
- “The key to finding a happy balance in modern life is simplicity.” – Gretchen Rubin
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