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The biggest human temptation is... to settle for too little.
Sep 10, 2025
You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.
The great thing about The Simple Life is that it's a reality show but not based on my reality, ... It has nothing to do with my life or my home or my relationships or anything. I'm not open to anything like that.
One of the most important rules for me is: Don't ever defend myself. If we could put this one principle into practice, how much more simple life would be.
How simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten.
Life was meant to be happy.
Don't lecture someone on their choices when you don't know their story.
To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.
Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.
Pain never really goes away; you just elevate and get used to it by growing stronger.
I don't want all that much. But I want to be fine. I want to live a simple life with many good moments and a lot of fun.
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
I really live a simple life and don't need very much to feel good and happy. Don't get me wrong; I believe you should get what you earn. Sometimes you have to fight for it.
To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.
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.
It's important to keep life simple, and if I'm traveling, I only can do a couple of things, and those are the things that I'm meant to be doing.
If you can be content right now, then you'll always be content, because it's always right now.
As a myth of national purpose and as a program for individual conduct, the simple life has, in a sense, served as the nation's conscience, reminding Americans of what the founders had hoped they would be and thereby providing a vivifying counterpoint to the excesses of materialist individualism.
Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.
To simplify complications is the first essential of success.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Everything is complex and everything is simple. The rose has no why attached to it, it blooms because it blooms, how no thought of itself, or desire to be seen. What could be more complicated than a rose for someone who wants to understand it? What could be simpler for someone who wants nothing? The complexity of thinking, the simplicity of beholding.
The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
The Simple Life is not a simple life.
The Forgotten Man is delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school, reading his newspaper, and cheering for the politician of his admiration, but he is the only one for whom there is no provision in the great scramble and the big divide. Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays — but he always pays — yes, above all, he pays.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
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.
People say "I want peace." If you remove I (ego), and your want (desire), you are left with peace.
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.
I consider that sex is part of life as much as architecture, fashion, art or food. Sex is life, simple. And I refuse to consider that sex should be hidden. When you hide sex, problems start because sex becomes dangerous.
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.
Being vegan truly is the secret to my life's joy and peace. I feel physically and spiritually better than I could have ever imagined knowing that I am doing everything I can to reduce animal suffering with simple lifestyle choices like being vegan, never wearing any products made from animals (like wool and leather), and buying only from companies that NEVER test their products or ingredients on animals.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.
In fact, it's even true to say that if you want to have a truly amazing life, relax your entire body.
I lead a simple life. I get residuals. I have a family; we're doing alright.
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.
I'm pretty squeaky clean. No big tragedies in my childhood or adolescence or adulthood. I've had a very easygoing, simple life.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.