Top 50 Simple Life Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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2. “Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Business Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes

3. “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”

— Mark Twain

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Important Quotes

4. “Each day provides its own gifts.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes About Life, Life Philosophy Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Good Morning Quotes

5. “True happiness is found in simple, seemingly unremarkable things.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Emotional Quotes, Contentment Quotes, Meaning of Life Quotes, Being Happy Quotes

6. “That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. ”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Short Quotes, Simplicity Quotes

7. “Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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8. “Simplify, simplify, simplify.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Simplicity Quotes

9. “My greatest skill in life has been to want but little.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Contentment Quotes, Simplicity Quotes

10. “The rule is to carry as little as possible.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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11. “Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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12. “People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child – our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”

— Nhat Hanh

Also featured in: Mindfulness Quotes, Grateful Quotes, Miracle Quotes, Buddhist Quotes

13. “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

Also featured in: Simplicity Quotes

14. “The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

Also featured in: Serenity Quotes, Peace of Mind Quotes, Mindfulness Quotes, Harmony Quotes, Peace Quotes

15. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

— Bert Lance

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16. “I'm an introvert. I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.”

— Audrey Hepburn

Also featured in: Focus On Yourself Quotes, Personality Quotes, Serenity Quotes

17. “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”

— Epictetus

Also featured in: Uplifting Quotes, Simplicity Quotes, Stoic Philosophy Quotes

18. “The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also featured in: Short Quotes About Life, Wisdom Quotes, Appreciation Quotes

19. “A place for everything, everything in its place.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Positive Short Quotes, Preparation Quotes, Efficiency Quotes

20. “Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.”

— Eddie Cantor

Also featured in: Self-Care Quotes, Journey Quotes

21. “Enjoy every sandwich.”

— Warren Zevon

Also featured in: Enjoy Life Quotes, Silly Quotes, Contentment Quotes, Carpe Diem Quotes

22. “I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Journey Quotes, Aesthetic Quotes, Nature Quotes

23. “The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

Also featured in: Happy Quotes, Enjoy Life Quotes, Mindfulness Quotes

24. “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”

— Audrey Hepburn

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25. “The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Care Quotes, Be Kind Quotes, Friendship Quotes, I Appreciate You Quotes

26. “Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.”

— Ramana Maharshi

Also featured in: Focus On Yourself Quotes, Awakening Quotes, Peace of Mind Quotes, Carpe Diem Quotes

27. “In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Also featured in: Giving Up Quotes, Quotes About Giving, Sacrifice Quotes

28. “Don’t take anything for granted, because tomorrow is not promised to any of us.”

— Kirby Puckett

Also featured in: Enjoy Life Quotes, Carpe Diem Quotes

29. “Sometimes it’s the little things that count most.”

— Alexandra Adornetto

Also featured in: Be Kind Quotes, Sunday Morning Quotes, Cute Quotes, Have a Great Day Quotes

30. “Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.”

— Rose Kennedy

Also featured in: Journey Quotes, Making Memories Quotes

31. “I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family – and I don’t think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.”

— Frank Sinatra

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32. “Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

33. “Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Enjoy Life Quotes

34. “Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a friend.”

— Harry S. Truman

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35. “Leave life alone. Let it be.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Acceptance Quotes, Serenity Quotes

36. “If you don’t like something don’t do it, and if you’re doing something then you better like it. It is as simple as that.”

— Shah Rukh Khan

Also featured in: Satisfaction Quotes, Quitting Quotes

37. “Let Nature be your teacher.”

— William Wordsworth

Also featured in: Serenity Quotes, Nature Quotes

38. “A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because its trust is not on the branch but on its own wings.”

— Anonymous

39. “There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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40. “Holiness doesn’t mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.”

— Pope Francis

Also featured in: Be Kind Quotes, Sunday Morning Quotes, Caring Quotes, Positive Good Morning Quotes

41. “Life’s a dance you learn as you go, sometimes you lead, sometimes you follow. Don’t worry about what you don’t know.”

— John Michael Montgomery

Also featured in: Journey Quotes, Happy Monday Quotes, Happy Wednesday Quotes

42. “The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life; it’s so easy to make it complex.”

— Yvon Chouinard

43. “The key to finding a happy balance in modern life is simplicity.”

— Sogyal Rinpoche

Also featured in: Quotes About Balance

44. “A kindness is never wasted.”

— Aesop

Also featured in: Human Nature Quotes, Kindness Quotes, Generosity Quotes

45. “It’s not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It’s what you leave behind you when you go.”

— Randy Travis

Also featured in: Make A Difference Quotes, Legacy Quotes, Grief Quotes

46. “I’m just a simple country girl.”

— Dolly Parton

Also featured in: Life Quotes for Women, Country Quotes

47. “In life, there are no mistakes, only lessons.”

— Vic Johnson

48. “Life is nothing without friendship.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Also featured in: Wellness Wednesday Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Humanism Quotes, I Appreciate You Quotes

49. “Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Meaning of Life Quotes

50. “I love my family, I’ll do anything for them.”

— Toni Braxton

Also featured in: Unconditional Love Quotes, I Love You Quotes, Blessed Family Quotes, Motherhood Quotes