Quotes about Simplicity
Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came back with a new understanding of life.
— Henry David Thoreau
The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased.
— Henry David Thoreau
In my everyday life, I'm a jeans and button-up shirt kind of guy.
— James Wolk
I'm not beating people over the head, and I'm saying that there are good things in store - you can make it in life. Most of the stuff that I minister [is] not real complicated deep things.
— Joel Osteen
It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town... he can walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety.
— Henry David Thoreau
We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.5
— John Piper
A knowledge of the truth depends not so much upon strength of intellect as upon pureness of purpose, the simplicity of an earnest, dependent faith.
— Ellen White
The surrender of all our powers to God greatly simplifies the problem of life. It weakens and cuts short a thousand struggles with the passions of the natural heart.
— Ellen White
Do not encourage any appetite for stimulants. Eat only plain, simple, wholesome food, and thank God constantly for the principles of health reform. In all things be true and upright, and you will gain precious victories.
— Ellen White
The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.
— Ellen Glasgow
Busy? The word loses all meaning under the canopy of this sky.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
The last thing any of us needs is more information *about* God.
— Barbara Brown Taylor