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Simplicity Quotes

Simplicity quotes call us back to the basics. Less is more. It’s time to de-clutter and make our lives less complicated. It is also time to consume less and re-use more. Think about ways you’d most love to simplify your life.

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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
John Burroughs

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

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci

I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Albert Einstein

Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.
Richard Halloway

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Storm Jameson

Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Lao Tzu

Simplicity is the key to brilliance.
Bruce Lee

The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn’t simple.
Doris Janzen Longacre

The simpler the deeper. We have a way of making things too complicated.
Shawn McNiff

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
Charles Mingus

If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.
Kitaro Nishida

Joys come from simple and natural things: mists over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water.
Sigurd F. Olson

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
Plato

Live simply that others may simply live.
Elizabeth Seaton

Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it.
Elaine St. James

Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Our life is frittered away by detail…simplify, simplify.
Henry David Thoreau

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
Leo Tolstoy

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Walt Whitman

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
Oscar Wilde



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