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These are daily quotes from the Simple Life Quote on the SimpleLifeCorp.com home page.
Simple living quotes can inspire, amuse, startle, and most of all, cause you to pause and think deeply.
May this list of quotes help you on your journey to a simple, joyful, loving, and deeply meaningful life.
With love and peace,
Patti
1. "You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and
listen. You need not even listen, simply wait, just learn to become
quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself
to you to be unmasked. It has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at
your feet."
-Franz Kafka
2. "Authenticity pushes us past our comfort zone - it's meant to."
- Sarah Ban Breathnach
3. "Put one foot in front of the other and just try not to
get somewhere."
- Pasha Veres
4. "I dote on myself. There is a lot of me and all so luscious."
- Walt Whitman
5. "A good scare is worth more than good advice."
- Edgar Watson Howe
6. "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
Nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger
is not safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either
a daring adventure or nothing at all."
- Helen Keller
7." Be the change you want to see in the world."
- Gandhi
8. "It's what you learn after you know it all that
counts."
- John Wooden
9. "Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so
futile."
- Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher & Mathematician
10. "Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick
themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."
- Winston Churchill
11. "You cannot feel badly enough to change the past."
Brad Yates
12. "You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
Eleanor Roosevelt
13. "As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
- Goethe
14. "Things are beautiful if you love them."
- Jean Anouilh
15. "To open the possibility for self-honesty, you have to develop
insight, which can be achieved through meditation, therapy, other
sorts of sensitivity training, and simply spending periods of time
alone to find out who you really are, what you really believe, and
what you really, really want."
- Stephen Russell
The Barefoot Doctor
16. "Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying... 'I will try again tomorrow.'"
- Mary Ann Radmacher
17. "Guilt is a totally useless emotion. It never makes anyone feel
better nor does it change a situation."
-Louise Hay
18. "In my experience, anything that catches our interest
is part of our life purpose, or we wouldn"t be paying attention to
it."
- Carol Adrianne, author of Find Your Purpose, Change Your Life
19. "You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you."
-Isadora Duncan
20. "If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "Thank
you," that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
21. "It is inevitable when one has a great need of something, one
finds it."
- Gertrude Stein
22. "Fear keeps people small. Run toward your fears .
Embrace them. On the other side of your greatest fears lives your
greatest life."
-Robin Sharma
23. "Being free from ego is beautiful. In this state, you can see
that your ego served no purpose other than to keep you angry, proud,
and separate."
-Devrah Laval
24. "The wound is the place where the light enters you."
-Rumi
25. "You are a child of the Universe, no less than the trees and
the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is
clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it
should."
-Desiderata
26. "If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."
-Mother Teresa
27. "Simplify the complex as much as possible, and you'll be fine."
-Chris Canton
28. "Eliminate physical clutter. More importantly, eliminate
spiritual clutter."
-D.H. Mondfleur
29. "If we only knew how many times our seemingly clever comment
cut straight into the heart of the person with whom we have just
spoken, it is we who would bleed."
~Guy Finley
30. "If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be
listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of
fluff in his ear."
-A.A. Milne
31. “Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend
on simplicity.”
-Plato
32. “I dwell in possibility.”
-Emily Dickinson
33. "A little simplicity would be the first step toward rational
living, I think."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
34. “We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.”
-Mother Teresa
35. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment to
start improving the world.”
-Anne Frank
36.“Graveyards are filled with books that were never written,
songs
that were never sung, words that were never spoken, things that were
never done.”
-Mark Victor Hansen
37. "In fact, it's even true to say that if you want to have a
truly amazing life, relax your entire body."
-Stephen Russell
38. “It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with
problems longer.”
-Albert Einstein
39. “The genius does not differ from others in their access to the
light within, only in their confident acceptance of its natural
outstreaming.”
-Eric Butterworth
40. “If your day is full of little mean, dark thoughts, is it any
wonder you feel crabby? Maybe it's because you let your mind run
wild like a dog putting its nose into garbage everywhere.”
-Barbara DeAngelis
41. "Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway."
- John Wayne
42. “Flops are part of life's menu and I'm never a girl to miss out
on a course!”
-Rosalind Russell
43. “When you wonder what is coming, tell yourself the best is
coming, the very best life and love have to offer, the best God and
His universe have to send. Then open your hands to receive it. It's
yours.”
-Melody Beattie
44. "The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie."
- Ann Landers
45. “Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid
changing it.”
-Elaine St. James
46. "Peace is your natural state of being when you are
not caught in the emotional milieu of everyday conditional
feelings."
-Dr. Frank J. Kinslow
47. "The more tranquil we become, the greater is our success, our
influence, our power for good."
-James Allen,
author - As A Man Thinketh
48. "The only way to peace is forgiveness."
- Pope John Paul II
49."The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
- e.e. cummings
50. "The simplest things are often the truest."
- Richard Bach
51. "The sound of silence is a beautiful thing."
-Jeffrey A Wands, from his book Knock and the Door
Will Open
52. "Try laughing in the face of fear. Am I kidding? No.
Ridiculing your fears is actually a very effective technique for
banishing them."
--Valerie Young, author How to Safely and Quickly Change
Careers
53. "If I'd gotten the job I wanted at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I
would never have left Illinois."
-Ronald Reagan
54. "Happiness comes in the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy
simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed."
-Storm Jameson
55. "Concentrate on where you want to go, not on what you fear."
--Anthony Robbins
56. "Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's
own life - is the source from which self-respect springs."
-Joan Didion
57. "The most exhausting thing in my life is being insincere."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
58. "All you who seek the way, please, do not waste this moment
now."
-Zen Teaching
59. "Mediocrity is self-inflicted and genius is self-bestowed."
--Eric Butterworth
60. "When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the
damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when
something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more
beautiful."
-Barbara Bloom
61. "I can't do anything about the thoughts that come into my head,
but I can do something about the ones that stay there!."
--Penney Pierce , The Intuitive Way
62."Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things
happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will."
-Norman Vincent Peale
63. "Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the
stuff life is made of."
- Benjamin Franklin
64. "It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get
yourself back."
- Mick Jagger
65. "The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little."
-Thomas Merton
66. "To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost
anything else in the world."
- Charles Dudley Warne
67. "If we are in a supermarket when someone drops a bag of
groceries on the floor and we don't help that person pick things up,
what difference does it make how deeply we know we're a being of
God?."
- Lee Lozowick
68. "If what you want to do doesn't make you shake in your boots,
your dream is not big enough."
- Brother Ishmael Tetteh
69. "The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
- e.e. cummings
70."There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world
than for bread."
- Mother Teresa
71. "I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine,
and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of
the full moon, "Yes!"
~Oriah Mountain Dreamer
72. "You're off to great places, today is the day. Your mountain is
waiting, so get on your way!"
~Dr. Seuss
73. "It's not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it
is because we do not dare that things are difficult."
~Seneca
74. "Oh, Great Spirit, Teach me to think quietly, to speak gently
and to hear thy voice in the whipsering breeze, the song of birds,
and in the murmuring brook."
~Cherokee Indian Prayer
75. "There are years that ask questions and years that answer."
~Zora Heale Hurston
76. "The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade
of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably
magnificent world in itself."
~Henry Miller
77. "It is very hard to be simple enough to be good."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
78. "If you do not change your direction, you are liable to wind up
where you are headed."
~Chinese Proverb
79. "There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the
best feeling in the world, because you realize there is so much more
to the book than the page you were stuck on."
~Zayn Malik
80. "Don't apologize for asking for what you deserve."
~Mika Brzezinski
81. "The creative process is a process of surrender, not control."
~Julia Cameron
82. "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. Schumacker
83. "Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers."
~Gen. Colin Powell
84. "Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive,
and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come
alive."
~Howard Thurman
85. "I love the smell of the universe in the morning."
~Neil deGrasse Tyson
86. "If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will
come."
~Chinese Proverb
87. "To age more slowly, choose not to lose muscle. The loss of
lean muscle has been linked to a shortened life span and 'smaller
living' while you are still alive."
~James Rouse
88." Isn't it funny how
Day by day
Nothing changes
But when you
Look back
Everything
is different?"
~c.s. Lewis
89. "What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is
first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you
like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better."
~ Doris Lassing
90."Life was meant to be happy."
~ Neal Donald Walsch
91. "The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good
intention."
~ Duguet
92. "The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don't go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don't go back to sleep."
~Rumi
93. "Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it'll always
get you the right ones."
~John Lennon
94. "..Whoever dewlls on beauty tends to become beautiful; there
will be a grace and charm to expressing itself through that person
which no one can fail to recognize and appreciate."
~Ernest Holmes
95. "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was
more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
~Anais Nin
96. "To one who waits, all things reveal themselves, as long as you
have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen in
the light."
~Coventry Patmore
97. "Anything pursued and attained as a supposed compensation for
the lack of self-love is ineffective and can get downright ugly."
~Rev. Dr. Jesse Jennings
98. "Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours.
All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that
is in you."
~Carl Jung
99. "To make a prairie it takes a clover, and one bee...
one clover, and a bee.
And revery. The revery alone will do,
If bees are few."
~Emily Dickinson
100. "When everything goes against you, and it seems you cannot
hold on for a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just
the time and place that the tide will turn."
~Harriet Beecher Stowe
101. "Must it be?
It must be!
It must be!"
~Ludwig van Beethovan
102. "If you can't be grateful for what you have received, then be
thankful for what you have been spared."
~Yiddish Proverb
103. "What would your life be like if you loved yourself so deeply
that the world had no choice but to love you back?"
~Cynthia James
104. "When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person
that walked in. That's what the storm is all about."
~Haruki Murakami
105."Dysfunctional systems will fall under their own weight. Let
them."
~Bashar
106. "How can you follow the course of your life if you do not let
it flow?."
~Lao-tzu
107. "Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today
of its joy."
~Leo Buscaglia
108."When we blame, we give up power; it is as simple as that. If
the other person is to blame, only he or she can heal the
situation."
~Dr Jim Lockard
109. "Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs
to you."
~Lao-tzu
110. "To one who waits, all things reveal themselves, as long as
you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen
in the light."
~Coventry Patmore
111. "Renewing and recreating oneself is what life is all about.
I'm here to learn and develop and receive and give what I have to
offer."
~Shaki Gawain
112. "Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft
might win, by fearing to attempt."
~Shakespeare
113. "Every breath you take is a gift to you from the universe."
~Thich Nhat Hahn
114. "You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to
another."
~Ernest Hemingway
115. "I have spent my time stringing and unstringing my instrument
while the song I came to sing remains unsung."
~ Rumi
116. "Learning to ask for guidance through prayer is
deceptively simple. When you do it consistently, the results are
spectacular."
~ Lynn A Robinson
117. "What you do speaks so loudly, I cannot hear what you are
saying."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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