Small Simple Quotes:

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Life Is Complicated, Making A Living

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

- Hans Hofmann

source: 1967 Search for the Real.

topic: Inspirational, Business, Mean, Software Design, Life And Living

It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

- Albert Einstein

source: "Small is Beautiful". The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5, (p. 22), August 1973.

topic: Courage, Moving, Simple, Software Design, Something Bigger Than Yourself

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

- William Morris

source: Hopes and Fears for Art "The Beauty of Life" (1882)

topic: Life, Happiness, Beauty, Life Is Simple, Spring Cleaning

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

- Will Rogers

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Frugality, Life Philosophy

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

- E. F. Schumacher

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Courage, Making A Living, Software Design

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

topic: Life, Peace, Simple, Life Is Simple, Life And Living

You can never get enough of what you don't want.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Want, Abundance, Enough, Oaks, What Is Happiness

You can never get enough of 'Jeopardy.'

- Kirsten Dunst

source: "Kirsten Dunst: after the apocalypse" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2011.

topic: Happiness, Simple, Satisfaction, Jeopardy, Oaks

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

- Edwin Way Teale

source: Edwin Way Teale (1953). “Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year”

topic: Life, Simple, Greed, Living A Simple Life, Live Simply

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

- Eric Hoffer

topic: Happiness, Simplicity, Needs, Frugality, Oaks

Live simply that others might simply live.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Simple, Simplicity, Community, Life And Living, Living A Simple Life

A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.

- Kevin Kelly

topic: Smart, Thinking, Simple, Small Simple, Smartness

Sannyas means dropping the fight with the river, going with the river, allowing the river to take you, learning the art of let-go. Those two small, simple words 'let', 'go', define the very spirit of sannyas. Then one can say 'Let thy kingdom come, thy will be done.' Then one withdraws one's will, and the moment you withdraw your will your life becomes immensely rich. Suddenly the whole is with you, and we can be victorious only when the whole is with us.

- Rajneesh

topic: Letting Go, Art, Mean, Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done

Love." She looked at me with those blue eyes. "Isn't it astonishing how confused and complicated such a small,simple word is? It attracts so many other things, doesn't it, that stick to it like barnacles on rock...fear, guilt. Need. You can't even see the rock anymore. I imagine love in its purest form is a rare thing.

- Deb Caletti

topic: Confused, Eye, Simple, Barnacles, Rare Things

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

- Libba Bray

source: Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

topic: Simple, Dying, Defense, Small Simple

What was that thing that could make two people promise one another to spend every day of the rest of their lives together? Ah,I found it. It was a thing called love. A small simple word.

- Cecelia Ahern

topic: Simple, Two, People, Small Simple

All morning, Spence has been a well-oiled machine of activity. Everyone doing her bit, quietly and efficiently. It's strange how deliberate people are after a death. All the indecision suddenly vanishes into clear, defined moments--changing the linens, choosing a dress or a hymn, the washing up, the muttering of prayers. All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.

- Libba Bray

source: Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

topic: Morning, Prayer, Simple, Washing, Well Oiled Machines

Sometimes people will think, I need to have pre-sanctioned spiritual joy. Getting joy from my contemplative meditation practice or getting joy from reading Thich Nhat Hahn books. Those things can be joyful but I think it’s the small, simple joys of playing with dogs or having sex with someone you love or going for a walk outside, stuff that we tend to ignore.

- Moby

source: "Moby | Inside the brain of a genius. Meditator. Vegan. Outlaw". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Spiritual, Dog, Sex, Spiritual Joy, Simple Joys