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Quotes About Simplicity to Inspire a Minimalist Mindset

  • October 29, 2022
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Quotes about simplicity can be powerful reminders to help us stay focused on what’s important. Sometimes it’s helpful to take a step back and simplify things in order to live more mindfully. If you’re looking for a minimalist mindset, these quotes might inspire you.

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As we go through our lives, it’s easy to get caught up in the clutter of things — possessions, relationships, work. Soon enough, our days are filled with noise and confusion and we lose sight of what’s important.

In order to simplify our lives and focus on what matters, we need to cultivate a minimalist mindset. This involves decluttering our physical and mental space so that we can better connect with ourselves and the world around us. The following quotes about simplicity can help inspire you on your journey to minimalism.

Quotes About Simplicity

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

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

Albert Einstein

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

Jack Kerouac

Like all magnificent things, it’s very simple.

Natalie Babbitt

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Henry David Thoreau
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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

Living simply makes loving simple.

Bell hooks

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Leo Tolstoy
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Wash yourself clean. With simplicity, with humility, with indifference to everything but right and wrong. Care for other human beings.

Marcus Aurelius

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

Every solution to every problem is simple. It’s the distance between the two where the mystery lies.

Derek Landy

Manifest plainness,

Reduce selfishness,

Embrace simplicity,

Have few desires.

Lao Tzu
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A person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Living simply makes loving simple.

Bell Hooks

The greatest ideas are the simplest.

William Golding

One should use common words to say uncommon things.

Arthur Schopenhauer
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Life is simple. You just have to stop trying to figure it out.

Marty Rubin

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Isaac Newton

The greatest ideas are the simplest.

William Golding

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

Isaac Newton

It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

David Levithan

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

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with nature herself.

Henry David Thoreau
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Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.

John Ruskin

He who is contented is rich.

Lao Tzu

The less I needed, the better I felt.

Charles Bukowski

Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.

Seneca
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My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do.

Francine Jay

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Thomas Mann

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

Amelia Barr

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Coco Chanel

Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you’ll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, ‘Is this necessary?’

Marcus Aurelius
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The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Douglas Horton

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

Leo Tolstoy

The core of beauty is simplicity.

Paulo Coelho

We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.

Henry David Thoreau
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It is the sweet simple things in life which are the real ones after all.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

The first step in crafting the life you want is to get rid of everything you don’t.

Joshua Becker

A simple statement is bound to be untrue. One that is not simple cannot be utilized.

Paul Valéry

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

William Morris

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

Charles Dudley Warner
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Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves. 

Edwin Way Teale

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

The simple life on the farm was everything to me. Nothing was more relaxing after a long plane flight than to reach the winding driveway that led up to my house.

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.

Seneca
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For a few minutes I tried to empty my mind entirely, to concentrate solely on breathing: sometimes it’s useful to rediscover simpler pleasures of life.

Romain Gary

Nature teaches us simplicity and contentment because in its presence we realize we need very little to be happy.

Mark Coleman

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Isaac Newton

I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.

Sandra Cisneros

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

Simplicity is nature’s first step and the last of art.

Philip James Bailey

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.

Steve Jobs

In character, in manner, in style, in all the things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Leonardo da Vinci
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Like all magnificent things, it’s very simple.

Natalie Babbitt

To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple.

Dejan Stojanovic

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

Isaac Newton

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

Rainer Maria Rilke

​​Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine.

Marcus Aurelius
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.

Albert Einstein

It’s strange how the simple things in life go on while we become difficult.

Richard Brautigan

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Coco Chanel

Natural beauty breezes within the simplicity that’s the purity, and the essence of natural beauty too.

Ehsan Sehgal

The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.

Seneca
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Nature loves simplicity and unity.

Johannes Kepler

Simplicity is the nature of great souls.

Papa Ramadas

The first step in crafting the life you want is to get rid of everything you don’t.

Joshua Becker

Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity’s the real challenge.

Robert James Waller

Life only puzzles us because we’re not simple enough to understand it.

Marty Rubin
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I always go for simplicity.

David Bailey

One of the biggest accelerators to change is simplicity.

Dr Henry Cloud

I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.

Sandra Cisneros

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Isaac Newton

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
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Modern civilization is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.

Sivananda

I have had to learn the simplest things last. Which made for difficulties.

Charles Olsen

Every solution to every problem is simple. It’s the distance between the two where the mystery lies.

Derek Landy

It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

David Levithan

You can never be too subtle, and you can never be too simple.

Paul Valéry
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Some things just work. There is elegance in simplicity.

Brandon Sanderson

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Hans Hofmann

Nature teaches us simplicity and contentment because in its presence we realize we need very little to be happy.

Mark Coleman

The expression of truth is simplicity.

Seneca

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Lao Tzu
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Parting Words

Simplicity is underrated. We can all attest to the fact that life is complicated enough without adding more noise and confusion. That’s why quotes about simplicity are so helpful; they remind us of what’s truly important. What’s your favorite quote about simplicity? Let us know in the comments below – we’d love to hear from you!

P.S. You might also like these related quote collections:

  • Quotes About Slowing Down in Life
  • Quotes About Simplifying Life
  • Quotes About Minimalism
  • Quotes About Nature
  • Quotes About Moments

Originally Published: October 28, 2022

 ✍️ Lima, Peru

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