Kurt Cobain
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are."
Simple Life quotes
Simple Life
39 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Jerry Garcia
Musician
"We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life."
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
"I love the smell of the universe in the morning."
Rachel Smith
Entrepreneur
"When ever I have a Problem, I just sing. Then I know my voice is a lot worse then my Problem."
J. R. R. Tolkien
Novelist, Scholar
"It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life."
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"Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive."
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"The biggest human temptation is... to settle for too little."
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"I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world."
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"I dote on myself. There is a lot of me and all so luscious."
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"Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind."
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"A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life."
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"The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication."
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"Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity."
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"We love to live a simple life... we simply love the life we live though some would say it's hard."
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"Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage."
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