Simple Life Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old simple life quotes, simple life sayings, and simple life proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication. George Santayana
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
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. Albert Einstein
Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures. William Morris
It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life. J. R. R. Tolkien
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it. It's just easier if you do. Byron Katie
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. Mother Teresa
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Hans Hofmann
We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life. Jerry Garcia
A simple lifestyle is good for us, helping us to better share with those in need. Pope Francis
God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. Charles Lindbergh
In no order of things is adolescence a time of the simple life. Janet Erskine Stuart
The most powerful life is the most simple life. The most powerful life is the life that knows where it's going, that knows where the source of strength is. It is the life that stays free of clutter and happenstance and hurriedness. Max Lucado
First of all, merely by living a simple life with a heart dedicated to overcoming self-cherishing, we automatically benefit others. Thubten Yeshe
The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous. Henry Van Dyke
I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking. Laura Ingalls Wilder
Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications. T. S. Eliot
Education must be orientated towards the attainment of character for leading clean simple lives. Sai Baba
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. Leo Tolstoy
A pretentious, showy life is an empty life, a plain and simple life is a full life. Rick Warren
If you lead a simple life, and that story is written, then that story will not satisfy. It needs an angle. Suppose there is no angle? Audrey Hepburn
I don't want all that much. But I want to be fine. I want to live a simple life with many good moments and a lot of fun. Erlend Loe
You try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end all you have left is yourself. Sue Grafton.
And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love. Anne Tyler
Making the simple complicated is commonplace. Charles Mingus
A Simple lifestyle of reduced consumption allows more time for interaction with living, dynamic beings, more opportunity for meeting the Other more fully and unencumbered. Stephanie Kaza
Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves. Rabindranath Tagore
Living lightly is not just about the stuff we accumulate, and it's not just for people in the second half of life. It’s about an attitude of living with fewer burdens and encumbrances, whether you’re twenty-one or sixty-five. Susan V. Vogt
How simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten. Daphne du Maurier
A simple life freely given in love can transcend the boundaries of place and time, stretching across oceans and extending beyond continents and decades. Leslie Parrott