“Like all magnificent things, it’s very simple.”

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

“Simplify your life. You don’t grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual.”

“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”

“Living simply makes loving simple.”

“The greatest ideas are the simplest.”

“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.”

“Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.”

“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.”

“The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.”

“Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.”

“And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love.”