Simple Living Quotes

“Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in mine, and I'll be happy for the rest of my fucked up little life.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

“I do not particularly like the word 'work.' Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and I think that is the most ridiculous thing in the world. Other animals make their livings by living, but people work like crazy, thinking that they have to in order to stay alive. The bigger the job, the greater the challenge, the more wonderful they think it is. It would be good to give up that way of thinking and live an easy, comfortable life with plenty of free time. I think that the way animals live in the tropics, stepping outside in the morning and evening to see if there is something to eat, and taking a long nap in the afternoon, must be a wonderful life. For human beings, a life of such simplicity would be possible if one worked to produce directly his daily necessities. In such a life, work is not work as people generally think of it, but simply doing what needs to be done.”
― Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

“It is desirable that a man be clad so simply that he can lay his hands on himself in the dark, and that he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk out the gate empty-handed without anxiety.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“The greatest challenge in life is to be our own person and accept that being different is a blessing and not a curse. A person who knows who they are lives a simple life by eliminating from their orbit anything that does not align with his or her overriding purpose and values. A person must be selective with their time and energy because both elements of life are limited.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“The more things we accumulate, the more cluttered our lives become, and the more stressed we feel as we are compelled to think about them. Life is about people not about things.”
― Natalie Vellacott

“...there are often many things we feel we should do that, in fact, we don't really have to do. Getting to the point where we can tell the difference is a major milestone in the simplification process.”
― Elaine St. James, Living the Simple Life: A Guide to Scaling Down and Enjoying More

“Well, all I need is the air I breathe and a place to rest my head.”
― OneRepublic, OneRepublic - Dreaming Out Loud Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords

“People no longer live by sun and moon, by wind and stars, but by some slyly contrived conventions known as clocks and calendars.”
― Matthew Goldman, The Journals of Constant Waterman: Paddling, Poling, and Sailing for the Love of It

“I could smell an arrogance,
it was my cheap fragrance.”
― Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident], Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“When we black people commit ourselves to living simply as a political action, as a way of breaking the stress caused by unrelenting hedonistic desire for material objects that are not needed for survival, or essential to well-being, we will not be talking about ebonics. We will be out in the streets demanding that the public schools have enough teachers so that all kids, cross color, can read and write in standard English and in Spanish too.”
― bell hooks, Black Genius: African-American Solutions to African-American Problems

“I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons.”
― Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

“Life already has so many boundaries and pressures - why add more in the garden?”
― Felder Rushing

“I was rich, for there was nothing else that I needed or wanted.”
― Mark Warren, Two Winters in a Tipi

“Potatoes have much more staying power than caviar.”
― Mark Helprin, Freddy and Fredericka

“Living aboard one's sailboat and having neither house nor vehicle nor job, and needing none, would be hubris—the most arrogant presumption—and therefore suitable punishable by the gods. One would be drowned by Poseidon early on and die extremely happy.”
― Matthew Goldman, The Journals of Constant Waterman: Paddling, Poling, and Sailing for the Love of It

“If we open our eyes to simplicity, we may discover serene pleasures scattered around us, quietly waiting to be noticed.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“I know that my time is near, though I cannot tell exactly when it will come. But I have had a good life. I have camped many times beneath spruce trees, roasting grouse over my campfire. So there is no reason to pray that I might live on much longer.”
― Chief Henry Yugh Noholnigee

“When we simplify, we create room for deeper presence, gentler rhythms and moments that whisper soul-deep”
― AshRawArt

“Simplify to amplify… moments of beauty that whisper soft, sacred and soul-deep”
― AshRawArt

“You know you’ve lost your simplicity when you’ve found your busy-ness.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Simplicity isn’t less - it’s more of what matters”
― AshRawArt

“Unsubscribe from busy - choose slow, choose soul, choose love”
― AshRawArt

“Most expensive clothes I own cost 20 dollars, most expensive devices I own cost 200 dollars. Born to a factory worker, I never knew luxury, then I made me a name, but saw the world's condition, I grew an absolute repulsion to lifestyle luxurious.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“In the hush beyond hurry, beauty begins”
― AshRawArt

“Pressed between these pages of sun-washed days and bare feet, are the quietest joys we almost missed.”
― AshRawArt

“There's a rhythm older than rush. A sacred slowness written into the seasons.”
― AshRawArt

“When we choose less. We receive more: deeper presence, softer rhythms, soul-deep moments”
― AshRawArt

“Sometimes simplicity means letting go, to make space for what truly matters”
― AshRawArt

“Frankie wasn’t much bothered by material things. She had her freedom and that made her rich beyond her wildest dreams. The Midnight Bakery”
― Emma Davies

“If possession without attachment were possible, then possession would not be a bar to spiritual growth.”
― Peter France, Hermits; The Insights of Solitude