Wise comments about life

What do you think of when you think of simplicity? Maybe it is –

• the “Less in More” concept by Andrea del Sarto,
• “Don’t use a lot where a little will do.” – Proverb, or
• the KISS Principle – Keep it Simple, Stupid (I prefer Keep it Simple, Sweetheart).

Whatever it is for you, I hope the following 20 quotes on simplicity can inspire you –

• “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” ~ Confucius
• “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci
• “The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.” ~ William James
• “Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.” ~ Martin H. Fischer
• “The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” ~ Hans Hofmann
• “Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” ~ William Morris
• “Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.” ~ Steve Jobs
• “There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
• “Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.” ~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
• “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” ~ Albert Einstein
• “Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; love more, and all good things will be yours.” ~ Swedish proverb
• “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say let your affairs be as one, two, three and to a hundred or a thousand. We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
• “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” ~ Lao Tzu
• “Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” ~ Albert Einstein
• “A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” ~ Lao Tzu
• “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” ~ Robert Brault
• “Simplicity is the essence of happiness.” ~ Cedric Bledsoe
• “The way to happy – keep your heart free from hate, your mind free from worry, live simply, expect little, give much.” ~ Carol Borges
• “Great acts are made up of small deeds.” ~ Lao Tzu
• “He who is contented is rich.” ~ Lao Tzu

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There is little in life that a wise mind can’t conquer. And it’s the sage-like guidance that inspires us to make our life that much better.

Here are 19 insightful quotes from people who lived exceptional lives.

1. “Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.” —Eleanor Roosevelt

2. “You can never plan the future by the past.” —Edmund Burke

3. “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” —Friedrich Nietzsche

4. “Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.” —Dalai Lama

5. “Lost time is never found again.” —Benjamin Franklin

6. “He that respects himself is safe from others.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

7. “Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

8. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” —Robert Frost

9. “It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

10. “Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out of it alive.” —Elbert Hubbard

11. “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” —Nelson Mandela

12. “Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.” —C. S. Lewis

13. “Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.” —John D. Rockefeller

14. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” —Mark Twain

15. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” —Aristotle

16. “There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt

17. “When a thing is done, it’s done. Don’t look back. Look forward to your next objective.” —George C. Marshall

18. “Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.” —Henry Van Dyke

19. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” —Abraham Lincoln

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Lydia Sweatt

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Lydia Sweatt is the web producer for SUCCESS.com. She recently earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Arlington and is a Dallas native. She enjoys painting, a hefty taco and discovering new music.

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