- “The beauty of wisdom lies in simplicity and humility.” ― Debasish Mridha
- Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions. Peace Pilgrim
- “Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.” ― Frédéric Chopin
- Simplicity is the end result of long, hard work, not the starting point. Frederick Maitland
- “..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, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
- “Success, just like poverty is a state of mind. You can become successful instantly with a simple decision and commitment. Long lasting and pronounced success comes to those who renew their commitment to a mindset of abundance every minute, hour and day.” ― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
- “Life is simple as long as we don’t complicate it.” ― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantras
- “Our thoughts are the only sustainable source of positive energy.” ― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantras
- “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, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
- You don’t need more space, you need less stuff. Joshua Becker
- “If I talk about her like she’s a beingIt’s because talking about her I need to use the language of menWhich gives personality to things,And imposes a name on things.” ― Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep
- “Progress is in simplification, which often follows complexity.” ― Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity
- The rise of social media is proving problematic. Younger age groups of children and adults are now becoming heavily absorbed in it, unaware that social media presents rose-tinted versions of life as the truth, and it’s against this fiction that they’re comparing themselves. Thibaut
- “Sometimes simplicity and elegance are indistinguishable from each other.” ― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
- “God wants the simplicity and accessibility of Jesus Christ to be your main quality” ― Sunday Adelaja
- “Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.” ― Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
- “It is so dam difficult to be simple.” ― Valquiria Oliveira
- “people notice the most beautiful dress every person can wear,……… a “smile” ― Anne Stuart
- “Less judgement more compassion.” ― Nikki Rowe
- “It is not your beautiful face or soft skin that kills me; it is your simplicity and being you.” ― M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry
- Better to have spent a minute meditating than tweeting. The Mimimalists
- “The question is: do you want suffering or do you want peace? It’s that simple.” ― Donna Goddard, Waldmeer
- “I have had to learn the simplest thingslast. Which made for difficulties.” ― Charles Olsen
- “The more we gave up, the more we gained.” ― Courtney Ellis, Uncluttered: Free Your Space, Free Your Schedule, Free Your Soul
- “What does this think about that?Nothing thinks about anything.Does the earth have consciousness of its stones and plants?If it did, it would be people. . .Why am I worrying about this?If I think about these things,I’ll stop seeing trees and plantsAnd stop seeing the EarthFor only seeing my thoughts…I’ll get unhappy and stay in the dark.And so, without thinking, I have the Earth and the Sky.” ― Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep
- “People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.” ― Douglas Coupland, The Gum Thief
- “One should use common words to say uncommon things” ― Arthur Schopenhauer
- “Superficiality breeds insecurity, simplicity breeds contentment.” ― Abhijit Naskar, When Call The People: My World My Responsibility
- Less is more. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. Epictetus