Being natural with yourself has its positive benefits for you. Just be true to yourself and don't complicate things. Being as simple as possible will lead you to a happier, joyful, and meaningful life. May these quotes about simplicity in life make you realize that overthinking things will result in more stress and a much harder life to live. Embrace being simple. Always remember that there is beauty in simplicity.
1. “You can't experience simple joys when you're living life with your hair on fire.” – Emily Ley
2. “Consider the benefits of owning fewer possessions: less to clean, less debt, less to organize, less stress, more money and energy.” – K. Collins
3. “Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.” – Lao Tzu
4. “Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.” – Charles Dudley Warner
5. “Our joy comes from living our own lives simply and never from demanding that others live simply or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
6. “The Golden Rule is the ultimate model of simplicity: a one-sentence statement so profound that an individual could spend a lifetime learning to follow it.” – Chip Heath
7. “Everything you buy or own might not necessarily bring you value or meaning to your life. In fact, they might come in your way and distract you from the bigger picture. You will find that simplicity is always better than complexity.” – Summer Andrews
8. “Simplicity is about deciding what's important to you and focusing on that before anything else.” – Chelsea Walters
9. “When you begin to pursue simplicity and make different decisions than you used to make, people will inevitably take notice.” – Mike Burns
10. “Many people who suffer from heightened stress and anxiety have seen a dramatic improvement by cutting back and simplifying their lives.” – Brian Night
11. “Nature teaches us simplicity and contentment because in its presence we realize we need very little to be happy.” – Mark Coleman
12. “Simplicity is a quality that not only evokes passionate loyalty for a product design, but also has become a key strategic tool for businesses to confront their own intrinsic complexities.” – John Maeda
13. “Simplicity is the key to brilliance.” – Bruce Lee
14. “Simplicity is not style, it is a state of harmony.” – Naoto Fukasawa
15. “Simplicity is the soul of efficiency.” – Austin Freeman
16. “When you add things into your life that you intrinsically enjoy and take out things that you intrinsically dislike, you wind up liking your life a lot more. This sounds simple on the surface, but simplicity doesn't always make things easy.” – Alison Cardy
17. “In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.” – Henry Wandsworth
18. “Simplifying your life may not be as simple as it sounds but you will be able to simplify your life when you get clear and focus on what is most important to you.” – Donald Allen
19. “Make it simple but significant.” – Anonymous
20. “The simplicity of life will make your life richer and fuller than trying to fit more in and having more. Just focus on what is important in your life.” – Kathy Stanton
21. “Simplicity avoids the superficial, penetrates the complex, goes to the heart of the problem and pinpoints the key factors.” – Wilfred Peterson
22. “Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.” – Coco Chanel
23. “Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment, a little makes the way of the best happiness.” – Frederich Nietzsche
24. “Out of chaos, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony.” – Bruce Lee
25. “As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness a weakness.” – Henry David Thoreau
26. “Beneath the simplicity lies a deep and profound message. Complexity is often necessary, but unnecessary complexity complicates our lives.” – Dan Ward
27. “It's never good to make a simple thing into complicated.” – Ly Nguyen
28. “The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” – Hans Hofmann
29. “Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.” – Paulo Coelho
30. “Simplifying one's life can also lead to a more contented existence.” – Glen Mizrahi
More Quotes on Simplicity
31. “Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
32. “One of the biggest accelerators to change is simplicity.” – Dr. Henry Cloud
33. “Simplicity is not about deprivation. Simplicity is about a greater appreciation for things that really matter.” – Anonymous
34. “Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.” – John Kabat-Zinn
35. “Simplicity reveals the pure beauty of life.” – Debasish Mridha
36. “You have to want to look for simplicity. You have to be motivated to design simplicity.” – Edward de Bono
37. “I have three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.” – Lao Tzu
38. “The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.” – Walt Whitman
39. “It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder
40. “A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.” – Winston Churchill
41. “There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.” – Alexander Pope
42. “There is a beauty and clarity that comes from simplicity that we sometimes do not appreciate in our thirst for intricate solutions.” – Dieter F. Uchtdorfmous
43. “Simplicity is that middle ground, the quiet path of moderation in all things.” – Cary David Richards
44. “Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.” – Isaac Newton
45. “People who decide to live a simple life reduce their material possessions and overall consumption and become satisfied with the things that they need and not with what they want.” – Ryan Cooper
46. “I feel rich because I have enough. Your enough will be different from my enough, which will be different from that guy over there's enough. But the less you need, the sooner you will feel rich.” – Anita Dhake
47. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci
48. “I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.” – Elliott Erwitt
49. “Never overlook the power of simplicity.” – Robin Sharma
50. “Like spirituality itself, the simplest things, when appreciated with reverence, take on an entirely new meaning.” – Oprah Winfrey
51. “Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.” – John Maeda
52. “Minimalism is the pathway to the better life you’ve been searching for all along.” – Joshua Becker
53. “Give all you can give and take only what you need.” – The Minimalists
54. “I have to remind myself to live simply and not overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.” – Sandra Cisneros
55. “Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.” – Marguerite Gardiner
56. “The less I needed, the better I felt.” – Charles Bukowski
57. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Jeff Rich
58. “If buying stuff hasn’t made you happy, maybe getting rid of it will.” – Joshua Becker
59. “Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.” – Leo Babauta
60. “Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.” – Mark Hyman
61. “Receive without conceit, release without struggle.” – Marcus Aurelius
62. “Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.” – John Ruskin
63. “Make room for things that matter by removing everything that doesn’t.” – Brian Gardner
64. “The more you have, the more you are occupied. The less you have, the more free you are.” – Mother Teresa
65. “To be richer, happier, and freer, all you need to do is want less.” – Francine Jay
66. “Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.” – James Cash Penney
67. “Eliminate physical clutter. More importantly, eliminate spiritual clutter.” – D.H. Mondfleur
68. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
69. “To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.” – Buddha
70. “Getting rid of everything that doesn’t matter allows you to remember who you are. Simplicity doesn’t change who you are, it brings you back to who you are.” – Courtney Carver
71. “To be content, look backward on those who possess less than yourself, not forward on those who possess more. If this does not make you content, you don’t deserve to be happy.” – Benjamin Franklin
72. “The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” – Plato
73. “The greatest ideas are the simplest.” – William Golding
74. “Simplicity is the essence of happiness.” – Cedric Bledsoe
75. “Owning less is great. Wanting less is better.” – Joshua Becker
Share these Happiness in Simplicity Quotes with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.
1. “You can't experience simple joys when you're living life with your hair on fire.” – Emily Ley
2. “Consider the benefits of owning fewer possessions: less to clean, less debt, less to organize, less stress, more money and energy.” – K. Collins
3. “Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.” – Lao Tzu
4. “Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.” – Charles Dudley Warner
5. “Our joy comes from living our own lives simply and never from demanding that others live simply or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
6. “The Golden Rule is the ultimate model of simplicity: a one-sentence statement so profound that an individual could spend a lifetime learning to follow it.” – Chip Heath
7. “Everything you buy or own might not necessarily bring you value or meaning to your life. In fact, they might come in your way and distract you from the bigger picture. You will find that simplicity is always better than complexity.” – Summer Andrews
8. “Simplicity is about deciding what's important to you and focusing on that before anything else.” – Chelsea Walters
9. “When you begin to pursue simplicity and make different decisions than you used to make, people will inevitably take notice.” – Mike Burns
10. “Many people who suffer from heightened stress and anxiety have seen a dramatic improvement by cutting back and simplifying their lives.” – Brian Night
11. “Nature teaches us simplicity and contentment because in its presence we realize we need very little to be happy.” – Mark Coleman
12. “Simplicity is a quality that not only evokes passionate loyalty for a product design, but also has become a key strategic tool for businesses to confront their own intrinsic complexities.” – John Maeda
13. “Simplicity is the key to brilliance.” – Bruce Lee
14. “Simplicity is not style, it is a state of harmony.” – Naoto Fukasawa
15. “Simplicity is the soul of efficiency.” – Austin Freeman
16. “When you add things into your life that you intrinsically enjoy and take out things that you intrinsically dislike, you wind up liking your life a lot more. This sounds simple on the surface, but simplicity doesn't always make things easy.” – Alison Cardy
17. “In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.” – Henry Wandsworth
18. “Simplifying your life may not be as simple as it sounds but you will be able to simplify your life when you get clear and focus on what is most important to you.” – Donald Allen
19. “Make it simple but significant.” – Anonymous
20. “The simplicity of life will make your life richer and fuller than trying to fit more in and having more. Just focus on what is important in your life.” – Kathy Stanton
21. “Simplicity avoids the superficial, penetrates the complex, goes to the heart of the problem and pinpoints the key factors.” – Wilfred Peterson
22. “Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.” – Coco Chanel
23. “Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment, a little makes the way of the best happiness.” – Frederich Nietzsche
24. “Out of chaos, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony.” – Bruce Lee
25. “As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness a weakness.” – Henry David Thoreau
26. “Beneath the simplicity lies a deep and profound message. Complexity is often necessary, but unnecessary complexity complicates our lives.” – Dan Ward
27. “It's never good to make a simple thing into complicated.” – Ly Nguyen
28. “The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” – Hans Hofmann
29. “Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.” – Paulo Coelho
30. “Simplifying one's life can also lead to a more contented existence.” – Glen Mizrahi
More Quotes on Simplicity
31. “Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
32. “One of the biggest accelerators to change is simplicity.” – Dr. Henry Cloud
33. “Simplicity is not about deprivation. Simplicity is about a greater appreciation for things that really matter.” – Anonymous
34. “Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.” – John Kabat-Zinn
35. “Simplicity reveals the pure beauty of life.” – Debasish Mridha
36. “You have to want to look for simplicity. You have to be motivated to design simplicity.” – Edward de Bono
37. “I have three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.” – Lao Tzu
38. “The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.” – Walt Whitman
39. “It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder
40. “A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.” – Winston Churchill
41. “There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.” – Alexander Pope
42. “There is a beauty and clarity that comes from simplicity that we sometimes do not appreciate in our thirst for intricate solutions.” – Dieter F. Uchtdorfmous
43. “Simplicity is that middle ground, the quiet path of moderation in all things.” – Cary David Richards
44. “Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.” – Isaac Newton
45. “People who decide to live a simple life reduce their material possessions and overall consumption and become satisfied with the things that they need and not with what they want.” – Ryan Cooper
46. “I feel rich because I have enough. Your enough will be different from my enough, which will be different from that guy over there's enough. But the less you need, the sooner you will feel rich.” – Anita Dhake
47. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci
48. “I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.” – Elliott Erwitt
49. “Never overlook the power of simplicity.” – Robin Sharma
50. “Like spirituality itself, the simplest things, when appreciated with reverence, take on an entirely new meaning.” – Oprah Winfrey
51. “Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.” – John Maeda
52. “Minimalism is the pathway to the better life you’ve been searching for all along.” – Joshua Becker
53. “Give all you can give and take only what you need.” – The Minimalists
54. “I have to remind myself to live simply and not overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.” – Sandra Cisneros
55. “Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.” – Marguerite Gardiner
56. “The less I needed, the better I felt.” – Charles Bukowski
57. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Jeff Rich
58. “If buying stuff hasn’t made you happy, maybe getting rid of it will.” – Joshua Becker
59. “Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.” – Leo Babauta
60. “Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.” – Mark Hyman
61. “Receive without conceit, release without struggle.” – Marcus Aurelius
62. “Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.” – John Ruskin
63. “Make room for things that matter by removing everything that doesn’t.” – Brian Gardner
64. “The more you have, the more you are occupied. The less you have, the more free you are.” – Mother Teresa
65. “To be richer, happier, and freer, all you need to do is want less.” – Francine Jay
66. “Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.” – James Cash Penney
67. “Eliminate physical clutter. More importantly, eliminate spiritual clutter.” – D.H. Mondfleur
68. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
69. “To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.” – Buddha
70. “Getting rid of everything that doesn’t matter allows you to remember who you are. Simplicity doesn’t change who you are, it brings you back to who you are.” – Courtney Carver
71. “To be content, look backward on those who possess less than yourself, not forward on those who possess more. If this does not make you content, you don’t deserve to be happy.” – Benjamin Franklin
72. “The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” – Plato
73. “The greatest ideas are the simplest.” – William Golding
74. “Simplicity is the essence of happiness.” – Cedric Bledsoe
75. “Owning less is great. Wanting less is better.” – Joshua Becker
Share these Happiness in Simplicity Quotes with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.