Simplicity Quotes
Quotes on the beauty and freedom of a simple life. This hand-picked collection brings together 30 of the finest simplicity quotes ever written — from William Wordsworth, Henry David Thoreau, Dr. Seuss and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.
The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye — it is very beautiful.
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
Let us cultivate our garden.
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing.
Memories mean more to me than dresses.
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples.
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple.
It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life.
Thanksgiving is the holiday of peace, the celebration of work and the simple life.