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Simplicity Quotes To Avoid Complexities In Life

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You have identified your goal in life.  You know what you want to do and when.  You also understand how you set about achieving your ultimate goal.  These three elements form the basis of your master plan.  ‘What,’ ‘how’ and ‘when.’

The fourth element is, of course, ‘you.’  You are the only one who knows what you want to achieve and how you intend to do that.  The ultimate success or failure of the plan is in your hands.  One important secret of success is to keep the whole strategy and any short-term plans, simple.

Simplicity is a huge factor in the success of any venture.  The more complicated the enterprise is, the more likely it is to fail.  Achieving simplicity can be a short-term goal in itself, one that should make the success of the activity certain.

How to achieve simplicity is a skill in itself. There are several ways of approaching the issue of simplicity.  First of all, you will need to decide what it is that you are trying to achieve.  How is this currently achieved, or what is your plan to do it?  Secondly, you need to examine that process and determine what can be taken away and still allow the desired result.

Next, consider the problem from every possible angle and see if there is a simpler way of doing the same job.  Lastly, when you are doing a job, are you inclined to consider something you do as necessary when, in reality, it is not?

Simplifying a task does not mean doing an inferior job.  Often it can lead to doing a better job.  Take the example of a cluttered desk.  Organizing the clutter is an excellent first step, then reducing it by removing what is not needed.  Then ensure that everything on the desk has a purpose that you understand.  You can then trust that what you need is there when you need it.

But I deal with this by meditating and by understanding I’ve been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.
Sandra Cisneros

You will save time by not searching or being distracted by some item that does not have a place on the desk.  Having a tidy, purposeful desk will make you happier and more inclined to sit there and work.

If we now use the cluttered desk as a metaphor for a cluttered mind, we can see that simplicity in thinking can also make a person happier.  A happier person is more inclined to be motivated and, therefore, more productive.  Taking this further, if you rid your mind of negative thoughts, which don’t need to be there, positive thoughts can dominate.

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
Leo Tolstoy

By understanding what it is you want to do and how to go about the task will save you time and effort and avoid failure.  Clarity follows simplicity, so an uncluttered mind will be able to think more clearly and make better and quicker decisions.  Simplicity in thinking and understanding will lead to applying simple solutions to problems.  Simple solutions are always the best.

Simplicity Quotes

Let’s stop telling each other how busy we are.
Unknown

 

There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little.
Jackie French Koller

 

The more you have, the more you are occupied. The less you have, the more free you are.
Mother Teresa

 

Simplicity involves unburdening your life, and living more lightly with fewer distractions that interfere with a high quality life, as defined uniquely by each individual.
Linda Breen Pierce

 

The more simple we are, the more complete we become.
August Rodin

 

One of the advantages of being born in an affluent society is that if one has any intelligence at all, one will realize that having more and more won’t solve the problem, and happiness does not lie in possessions, or even relationships: The answer lies within ourselves. If we can’t find peace and happiness there, it’s not going to come from the outside.
Tenzin Palmo

 

To be richer, happier, and freer, all you need to do is want less.
Francine Jay

 

The intention of voluntary simplicity is not to dogmatically live with less. It’s a more demanding intention of living with balance. This is a middle way that moves between the extremes of poverty and indulgence.
Duane Elgin

 

It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
William Of Occam

Simplicity Quotes

 

We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy.
Richard Foster

 

Slow down. Do less.
Maxime Lagacé

 

The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn’t simple.
Doris Janzen Longacre

 

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Albert Einstein

 

Any half-awake materialist well knows – that which you hold holds you.
Tom Robbins

 

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.
James Cash Penney

 

The simplest things are often the truest.
Richard Bach

 

My greatest skill has been to want little.
Henry David Thoreau

Simplicity Quotes

 

Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter.
Harold Kushner

 

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

 

If one’s life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements.
The Dalai Lama

 

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

 

Smile, breathe and go slowly.
Thich Nhat Hanh

 

Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.
Elise Boulding

 

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutang

 

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Vernon Howard

 

Eliminate physical clutter. More importantly, eliminate spiritual clutter.
D.H. Mondfleur

 

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.
E.F. Schumacher

 

Small needs lead to a large life.
Unknown

Simplicity Quotes

 

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Eat, drink and love… the rest is not worth a nickel.
Lord Byron

 

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.
Edwin Way Teale

 

How many things are there which I do not want.
Socrates

 

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone.  The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutang

 

The most important things in life aren’t things.
Kenneth Clarke

 

Less is more.
Mies Van Der Rohe

 

Order your soul. Reduce your wants.
Augustine of Hippo

 

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

 

Simplicity is a state of mind.
Charles Wagner

Simplicity Quotes

 

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould

 

Simplicity is the end result of long, hard work, not the starting point.
Frederick Maitland

 

One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in.
Francis Jourdain

 

Simplicity is the trademark of genius.
Sravani Saha Nakhro

 

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
Bertrand Russell

 

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
Charles Warner

 

We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.
Anna C. Brackett

 

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
George Sand

 

Have nothing in your homes that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
William Morris

 

Simplicity is the nature of great souls.
Papa Ramadas

Simplicity Quotes

 

You say, ‘If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.’ You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.
Charles Spurgeon

 

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.
Jessie Sampter

 

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
Leo Tolstoy

 

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Henry David Thoreau 

 

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
Henry David Thoreau

 

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
Socrates

 

Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbor, and look upon him with a bright and friendly face. Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer of the cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge.
Baha’u’llah

 

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci

Simplicity Quotes

 

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Henry David Beecher

 

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

 

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit experience and the last effort of genius.
George Sand

 

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu

 

My riches consist, not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.
Joseph Brotherton

 

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
Lao Tzu

 

Live simply so that others may simply live.
Elizabeth Ann Seton

 

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
Isaac Newton

 

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Hosea Ballou

 

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.
Buddha

 

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
Lope de Vega

 

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
Dr. Seuss

Simplicity Quotes

 

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Ernst F. Schumacher

 

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.
Thomas a Kempis

 

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Steve Jobs

 

If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, then this is the best season of your life.
Wu-Men

 

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill

 

Poverty is my pride.
Muhammed

 

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

 

If one had taken what is necessary to cover one’s needs and had left the rest to those who are in need, no one would be rich, no one would be poor, no one would be in need.
Saint Basil

 

Let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.
Henry David Thoreau

 

Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.
Epictetus

Simplicity Quotes

 

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 weakness.
Henry David Thoreau

 

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Seneca

 

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein

 

Sell your possessions and give to the poor.
Jesus Christ

 

If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein

 

The man who has two tunics is to share with him who has none; and he who has food is to do likewise.
John the Baptist

 

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.
Oprah Winfrey

 

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
Epicurus

Simplicity Quotes

 

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Warren Buffett

 

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
Socrates

 

It is not daily increase but daily decrease, hack away the unessential. The closer to the source, the less wastage there is.
Bruce Lee

 

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Lao Tzu

 

Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.
Steve Jobs

 

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

 

Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to make something simple.
Richard Branson

 

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.
Buddha

 

Don’t confuse having a career with having a life.
Hillary Clinton

Simplicity Quotes

 

The simplicity quotes that follow will help you pursue simple solutions to problems.  By making things simpler, success will be assured.  You will have achieved success thanks to these simplicity quotes.

 

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