Simple Life Philosophy Quotes & Sayings

Humans are probably the only creatures who know that they will die. They know for certain and yet they keep going. A resilient spirit and a need to survive does not make for cowardice.
Salma to Merrick in Simple Conversation — Sonia Rumzi

Man is created for happiness, that happiness lies in himself, in the satisfaction of simple human needs; and that all unhappiness is due, not to privation but to superfluity. — Leo Tolstoy

We often forget that we are simple human beings, here to enjoy the beauty, magic, and mysteries of life and the nature to wonder. Not to live a complex, mechanical, stressful corporate life to death. — Debasish Mridha

Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it's not that simple ... Real-life kings had real-life problems to deal with ... My people who are trying to rule don't have an easy time of it. Just having good intentions doesn't make you a wise king. — George R R Martin

My philosophy of life is simple: I need someone to love, something to wait and do something. — Elvis Presley

Live a simple life, doing what you love. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A simple act of kindness can touch someone's mind, so in every interaction be loving and be kind. — Debasish Mridha

One road was simple acceptance of life, the other road offered sweet peace. When I made my decision, my vision became my release. — Dan Fogelberg

A simple journey creates a peaceful life. — Debasish Mridha

The more loving, kind and simple we are, the more we resemble the God. — Debasish Mridha

Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one. — Seneca.

It's easy to be complicated but very difficult to be simple. — Debasish Mridha

If our brains were as simple as we could understand them, than we would be so stupid that we couldn't understand them again. — Jostein Gaarder

Let us be the joy to find the joy
Let us be the love to find the love
Let us be kind to find kindness
Let us be happy to find happiness.
Let us be simple to find simplicity
Let us be modest to find modesty
Let us feel to comprehend
Let us listen to understand
Let us live our life to be
Let us close our eyes to see. — Debasish Mridha

He's going to jail. He can't see. He can't hear. He can't take a leak that lasts under fifteen minutes. But he has an erection and all the other problems are small change. Next time around I'm coming back as a man. Priorities are clearly defined. Life is simple. — Janet Evanovich

The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life. — John Chrysostom

Wisdom is better than knowledge, for wisdom is simple but knowledge is complex. — Debasish Mridha

By simplifying our lives, we rediscover our child-like stalk of innocents that reconnects us with the central resin of our innate humanity that knows truth and goodness. To see the world through a lens of youthful rapture is to see life for what it can be and to see for ourselves what we wish to become. In this beam of newly discovered ecstasy for life, we realize the splendor of love, life, and the unbounded beauty of the natural world. — Kilroy J. Oldster

No matter how worldly I became, there was always that one part of me that never forgot where I came from and how simple life was there. — Carlos Wallace

I believe the real reason we pursue anything in life is not for the thing itself, but for who we become on the way to its accomplishment. We strive to accomplish things in the attempt to mold ourselves. The greatest benefits Jiu Jitsu will have in your life will have nothing to do with Jiu Jitsu. It is this simple understanding that allows me to persist in my study. Even on the rare days when I may not have a burning desire to practice Jiu Jitsu, I am reminded that my practicing Jiu Jitsu is more accurately my practicing to become a better human being. The lessons I learn on the mat will serve me in every area of life
personal development, relationships, business, and the like. — Chris Matakas

There is a truth in Schopenhauer's view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. ... In philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say 'Let's get a rough idea', for we do not know the country except by knowing the connections between the roads. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

You achieve greatness, not by accumulating wealth, but by becoming king, loving, forgiving, and simple. — Debasish Mridha

Be simple enough to feel the true joy of life. — Debasish Mridha

There are so many simple things getting unnoticed in me, it makes me feel I am a robot! — Vikram Roy

A wise person explains complex things in simple way. An intelligent person explains simple things in complex way. — Debasish Mridha

Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have. — Dean Koontz

One entered the world, Denis pursued, having ready-made ideas about everything. One had a philosophy and tried to make life fit into it. One should have lived first and then made one's philosophy to fit life ... Life, facts, things were horribly complicated; ideas, even the most difficult of them, deceptively simple. In the world of ideas, everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled. Was it surprising that one was miserable, horribly unhappy? — Aldous Huxley

To manifest the beauty of life, think beauty, dream beauty, and see the beauty in the simple things all around you. — Debasish Mridha

Just be simple, just be kind, just be loving. — Debasish Mridha

A simple act of kindness could be the source of great happiness. — Debasish Mridha

So beautiful but so bountiful.
So delicate but so fresh.
So magical but so simple.
So much to say but yet so silent.
So loving and so pleasant.
Oh, flowers of charming love,
You are life's joy and present. — Debasish Mridha

To be wise, be always simple, loving and kind. — Debasish Mridha

Just believe; believe in yourself; believe in your ability. Things will be possible; things will be simple; things will be a reality. — Debasish Mridha

My philosophy of life is very simple; I want to be very simple, loving, and kind. — Debasish Mridha

Life is a simple straight line between birth and death. The problem is you only realize it at the end of the line. — Debasish Mridha

Truth is very simple in nature, people just manipulate to make it fancy and complex... — Ankit Rawat

Yet, although he could not quite work this out in simple terms in his own mind, the very savour of life, he thought, was itself enhanced if it were not totally taken for granted. Perhaps it was something to do with the whole philosophy of the world into which we were born. If we lived for ever, who would look forward eagerly to tomorrow? If there were no darkness, should we appreciate the sun? Warmth after cold, food after hunger, drink after thirst, sexual love after the absence of sexual love, the fatherly greeting after being away, the comfort and dryness of home after a ride in the rain, the warmth and peace and security of one's fireside after being among enemies. Unless there was contrast there might be satiety. — Winston Graham

Be an example, be kind and be simple. — Debasish Mridha

Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world. — Lao-Tzu

The purpose of philosophy isn't complex theorizing, it is simple and clear thinking in relation to life's big questions. — Steven Colborne

True love comes from the heart, it is very simple and nonjudgmental. — Debasish Mridha

Let it be simple, let it be with love. — Debasish Mridha

Happiness is not the simple purpose of life but it is the ultimate purpose of all purposes of life. — Debasish Mridha

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; the philosophy is kindness. — Dalai Lama XIV

My friend, it is not an arduous task that I bequeath, for our order knows only silken bonds. To be gentle and patient, to care for the riches of the mind, to preside in wisdom and secrecy while the storm rages without - it will all be very pleasantly simple for you, and you will doubtless find great happiness. — James Hilton

Most often our perception about life is difficult but life itself is very simple. — Debasish Mridha

Life is always blissful and simple, only we make it difficult and impossible. — Debasish Mridha

To live a happy life, live simply, let it go easily, love unconditionally. — Debasish Mridha

You can change a life with a simple touch of kindness. — Debasish Mridha

The formula of life is simple. It is the formula of giving - giving courage, attention, peace, love and comfort to yourself and the society. — Amit Ray

I am very simple and kind of a man to be a politician. — Debasish Mridha

What is infinity? I haven't a clue.
But maybe that's the whole point I've been attempting to explain to you.
The fact that it's not known
Or seen
Or heard.
Infinity is every person, every being, every bird.
Infinity is a simple mystery.
It looks like a mystery.
Tastes mysterious.
Feels like something completely delirious.
We cannot imagine what this sound could be.
All we can imagine is infinity. — F.K. Preston

Let's be simple and calm,
Like brooks and trees,
And God will love us by making
Beautiful things like the trees and brooks for us,
And give us greenness in his spring,
And a river for us to go to when we end... — Alberto Caeiro

Simple kindness can move the world. — Debasish Mridha

Be simple, be loving and be kind. Nothing else matters. — Debasish Mridha

Judgments based on preconceptions make life simple for us to deal with since that means we safely shield ourselves behind barriers of preconception that helped us feel safe in whatever views or assumptions we are having. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

To enjoy the freshness of life, be simple like water. — Debasish Mridha

On the other hand, the conditions of human existence - life itself, natality and mortality, worldliness, plurality, and the earth - can never "explain" what we are or answer the question of who we are for the simple reason that they never condition us absolutely. This has always been the opinion of philosophy, in distinction from the sciences - anthropology, psychology, biology, etc. - which also concern themselves with man. But today we may almost say that we have demonstrated even scientifically that, though we live now, and probably always will, under the earth's conditions, we are not mere earth-bound creatures. Modern natural science owes its great triumphs to having looked upon and treated earth-bound nature from a truly universal viewpoint, that is, from an Archimedean standpoint taken, wilfully and explicitly, outside the earth. 2 — Hannah Arendt

Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student. — Paulo Freire

Our main purpose of life is to be happy. Happiness is in simplicity, and the most amazing things about life is that it is so simple. — Debasish Mridha

The simple the process is, the smarter the system becomes. — Joey Lawsin

I think nothing is good, I really think it is. — Duop Chak Wuol

Happiness is not defined by how much money you possess. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Write something simple like water, it will have the power to change you and the world. — Debasish Mridha

An honest and wise man is always a very simple man. — Debasish Mridha

I am very simple but I am very kind and loving. — Debasish Mridha

Be simple, don't carry the baggage the past, open your hands, and let it go. — Debasish Mridha

It's better to live a simple life without success than a complex life with full of stress. — Debasish Mridha

It is so simple, to be happy think happiness. — Debasish Mridha

Rock is a great master of life. It teaches us this simple philosophy: Stay firm! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It's easy to put the links between the increases in mental illness, depression, ADHD, and the like, with the speed of the modern world. People never get the chance to do nothing, or when they do, they lack the control to prevent their mind from racing off in a thousand different directions. So much so that their doing nothing becomes a thousand different things and the thousand different things becomes stress, anxiety, worry and fear. Left untreated these simple everyday things become well entrenched in our psyches and start to dominate our lives. We have a chronic addiction with doing and we love to use our busyness as a stamp of our hard work and hectic lives and we get stuck in this busy trap of always doing. — Evan Sutter

I am writing something very simple that will change you and change the world. — Debasish Mridha

I would rather be kind and simple and poor than rude and rich. — Debasish Mridha

Living a religious sexual lifestyle is tantamount to living a lie.
Religion distorts our sexuality when the majority of religious people live one life for the public and another in private. It can be as simple as living as a "happily married" couple when you are both miserable with your sex life. — Darrel Ray

This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life. — Saint John Chrysostom

Life is simple and beautiful. — Debasish Mridha

Concerning mistakes, follow three simple rules. Firstly, correct a mistake that you made whenever it is possible. Secondly, don't repeat the same mistakes. Thirdly, learn from past mistakes. — Eraldo Banovac

For there is not a single human being, not even the primitive Negro, not even the idiot, who is so conveniently simple that his being can be explained as the sum of two or three principal elements; and to explain so complex a man as Harry by the artless division into wolf and man is a hopelessly childish attempt. Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two. His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousand and thousands. — Hermann Hesse

Life is simple if simplicity is your passion. — Debasish Mridha

We never learn to value what is simple; what is difficult is worthy to us. But, the beauty of life is in the simplicity. — Debasish Mridha

I would rather live a joyful simple life, doing what I love, than to be unhappy and rich. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Cleverness is egocentric, dramatic, gives you an illusion of success. We are always running behind it and ultimately suffer. Whereas simplicity is spiritual, blissful, not dramatic, simple but joyful and gives inner peace. Which is our ultimate goal. — Debasish Mridha

The readers of Isabel's journal were affected by the conversations within its covers-if nothing else, the livingroom of their moral imagination became bigger. And this must surely have some bearing on the way they dealt with the world, even in the small transactions of life: awareness of the pain of others here, a word of comfort there. Of course, the admission of kindness to one's life did not spring from any contimplation of the views of Hobbes (selfish Hobbes) and Hume (the good, generous Davey), but it did no harm to know about all of that. And that was where philosophy really did count: it set out the major choices behind all of those practical day-to-day questions of charity and understanding and simple decency; it was the weatherthe backdrop against which those practical matters were debated. — Alexander McCall Smith

A simple thought can transform you forever. So cultivate beautiful thoughts, ugliness never. — Debasish Mridha

Life is really simple if we know the purpose of life. — Debasish Mridha

All global ambitions are based on a definition of productivity and the good life so alienated from common human reality that I am convinced it is wrong and that most people would agree with me if they could perceive an alternative. We might be able to see that if we regained a hold on a philosophy that locates meaning where meaning is genuinely to be found - in families, in friends, in the passage of seasons, in nature, in simple ceremonies and rituals, in curiosity, generosity, compassion, and service to others, in a decent independence and privacy, in all the free and inexpensive things out of which real families, real friends, and real communities are built - then we would be so self-sufficient we would not even need the material "sufficiency" which our global "experts" are so insistent we be concerned about. — John Taylor Gatto

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, 'Seek simplicity and distrust it. — Alfred North Whitehead

Life is the greatest sacred existence. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We are very simple human until we learn to use the power of our divine love. — Debasish Mridha

When you are very simple, honest, and kind, people may take advantage of you and cheat you, but be loving and kind. Remember that no one can cheat you except you and yourself. — Debasish Mridha

When I was a kid, a young man, I was terribly concerned about getting my philosophy together. But as I've done my grieving I've given up on that and settled on a pretty simple deal: The object of life is to gain wisdom. And that's what I'm trying to do. — Elizabeth Harper Neeld

My philosophy is very simple: do not fear but dare. — Debasish Mridha

Be simple to fill life with abundance. — Debasish Mridha

...Never opt for war, no matter how simple it may seem, especially when you know that peace is achievable, even if achieving that peace entails going through a complicated and protracted process, — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

You can change a life by touching someone with simple, beautiful, kind, words and a loving smile. — Debasish Mridha

To be a winner in life, be simple and be kind.
You will win the heart and you will win the mind. — Debasish Mridha

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

My purpose of life is very simple; I live just for the joy of living. — Debasish Mridha

Be simple but think great to be great. — Debasish Mridha

Every moment of our life has a purpose, that every action of ours, no matter how dull or routine or trivial it may seem in itself, has a dignity and a worth beyond human understanding ... For it means that no moment can be wasted, no opportunity missed, since each has a purpose in man's life, each has a purpose in God's plan. Think of your day, today or yesterday. Think of the work you did, the people you met, moment by moment. What did it mean to you- and might it have meant for God? Is the question too simple to answer, or are we just afraid to ask it for fear of the answer we must give? — Walter J. Ciszek