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Simplify Quote of the Day

Welcome to these Simplify Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.

Simplify, simplify.
- Henry David Thoreau

Related topics: Wisdom

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

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

To love. To be loved.
To never forget your own insignificance.
To never get used to the unspeakable violence
and the vulgar disparity of life around you.
To seek joy in the saddest places.
To pursue beauty to its lair.
To never simplify what is complicated
or complicate what is simple.
To respect strength, never power.
Above all, to watch. To try to understand.
To never look away. And never, never, to forget.
- Arundhati Roy

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words.
Those who simplify the universe
only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
- Anais Nin

The architect should strive continually to simplify;
the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered
that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt

To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu

Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller

Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin

Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling

The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau

The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)

Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow

A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu

The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

The greatest wealth is health.
- Virgil

You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein

Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare

Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather

Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde

Life is a mirror, and will reflect back
to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle

Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu

Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb

Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono

Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell

By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu

A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu

For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey

He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb

Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell

To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie