100+ Simple Life Quotes To Inspire A Simpler Living

Looking for quotes about living a simple life? We have rounded up the best collection of simple life quotes, sayings, captions for Instagram, (with images and pictures) to inspire you to declutter your life and live humbly.

Simple Life Quotes & Sayings

“Keep life simple.”
“Enjoy the simple life.”
“Simple life is a happy life.”
“A simple life is a beautiful life.”
“Life is simple if you live it simply.”
“The best things in life aren’t things.” – Art Buchwald
“Life is as simple as we allow it to be.”
“Take time to enjoy the simple things in life.”
“Make your life simple but significant.” – Dan Draper
“I found the simple life, ain’t so simple.” – Van Halen
“A simple life is its own reward.” – George Santayana
“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” –Plato
“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.” –Coco Chanel
“Only great minds can afford a simple style.” – Stendhal
“It’s no bad thing to celebrate a simple life.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci
“Live simply so that others may simply live.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity.” – Jil Sander
“I live a reasonable simple life, off the beaten track.” – George Lucas
“Going back to simpler life is not a step backward.” – Yvon Chouinard
“Live a simple life; you will own the most beautiful treasures of the world!”
“Best rule for simple life: Care with no reason and Love with no expectations.”
“Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.” –Buddha
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
“It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.” – Charles Lindbergh
“Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.”
“It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary.” – Paulo Coelho
“Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.” – William Morris
“That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Simplicity of character is no hindrance to the subtlety of intellect.” – John Morley
“The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.” – Steve Maraboli
“Let me tell you something: I’m a simple person who lives a simple life.” – Bill Cowher
“In no order of things is adolescence a time of the simple life.” – Janet Erskine Stuart
“Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life’s supreme complications.” – T. S. Eliot
“Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.” – Lao Tzu
“Lead a simple life. First reduce your greeds. Then reduce your needs.” – Ritu Ghatourey
“When we crave simplicity, we are not after an easier life. We are after life.” – Dave Bruno
“Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.” – Charles Warner
“It is the sweet simple things in life which are the real on es after all.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder
“A little simplicity would be the first step toward rational living, I think.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Best rule for a simple life… Care with no reason, Love with no expectation.” – Ritu Ghatourey
“A simple lifestyle is good for us, helping us to better share with those in need.” – Pope Francis
“I’m a quiet person, and I live a quiet, pleasant, ordinary, simple life.” – Mary McGarry Morris
“I’m just a regular person who believes life is simple, and I like a simple life.” – Manny Pacquiao
“Life is very simple. What I give out comes back to me. Today, I choose to give love.” – Louise Hay
“Keep it simple, as simple living and simple thinking can unlock the door to a more inspirational life.”
“Life is so much simpler when you stop explaining yourself to people and just do what works for you.”
“I want to live a simple life without stress or worry. I don’t need a lot of stuff. I just want to be happy.”
“Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.” – Charles De Lint
“A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.” – Winston Churchill
“Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.” – Charles Dudley Warner
“Live a simple life; you will own the most beautiful treasures of the world!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
“You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.” – Vernon Howard
“We all want to just want to live a simple life, but nobody really knows how to do that.” – Cameron Britton
“Simplicity is so attractive and so profitable that it is strange that so few people lead truly simple lives.” – Leo Tolstoy
“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” – Socrates
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” – Hans Hofmann
“The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn’t simple.” – Doris Janzen Longacre
“Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.” – Richard Halloway
“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
“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand.” – Henry David Thoreau
“I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.” – Albert Einstein
“All I really want is a small, slow, simple life. A mediocre life. A beautiful, quiet, gentle life. I think it is enough.” – Krista O’Reilly
“Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.” – Edwin Way Teale
“Minimalism isn’t about removing the things you love. It’s about removing the things that distract you from the things you love.” – Joshua Becker (The More of Less)
“Be as simple as you can be; You will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.” – Paramahansa Yogananda
“Love is simple. Life is simple. Hate is simple. Success is simple and failure is simple. Then what is difficult? Being simple is very difficult!!!” – Lokesh
“I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.” – Roald Dahl
“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
“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.” – Frederic Chopin
“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
“My life is very simple because I don’t allow worldly things to control my feelings and emotions. Neither do I waste my time and energy seeking for any approval other than that of my inner-self.”
“If you have a soul that feels like it’s in a continual state of unrest… If you spend a lot of time inside your own head… A slower pace and a simpler life might settle you in more ways than you’d expect. Find more stillness inside.”
“The complexity of your earthly array is not a guarantee for a truimphant eternity. The fact is that you need a simple life to go to heaven; not an excessively glittering body, shiny lips and charming face.” – Israelmore Ayivor
“Simplicity of living, if deliberately chosen, implies a compassionate approach to life. It means that we are choosing to live our daily lives with some degree of conscious appreciation of the condition of the rest of the world.” – Duane Elgin
“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
“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.” – Dalai Lama
“Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have even lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.” – Henry David Thoreau
“A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with that’s poverty but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . . When you’re clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it’s clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar.” – Victoria Moran
“As we live and as we are, Simplicity — with a capital ‘S’ — is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means.” – Frank Lloyd Wrig