Yvon Chouinard Quotes

Life is simple unless we find a way to make it complicated.

To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all our lives be simplified merely, like an algebraic formula? Or not, rather, that I may make use of the ground I have cleared to live more worthily and profitably?

I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.

In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, simplify.

It may be that America has become too big and complicated for most people to deal with being part of. People are longing for a smaller, stupider reality.

As for the complex ways of living, I love them not, however much I practice them. In as many places as possible, I will get my feet down to the earth.

The way I live now is that I only write, which means that I'm very poor but very happy. Everything in my life is the way I want it to be.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Knowing what I know now and what I have been through, would I do it the same? I look at the alternative - a very simple life. It would have been nice to have a simple life.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.

With renunciation life begins.

I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.

I live a very simple life.

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad.

I'll say life is simpler.

There's a moment in one's life when you should really be de-accessorizing instead of making more collections.

I'm pretty low-key. I travel fairly light, especially on the tour.

As time passes, we like to simplify our lives.

People are being overwhelmed with social issues, political problems and economic problems - and this notion of giving everything up and going to live off-grid and to have a simpler way of life is quite attractive.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.

The less you carry the more you will see, the less you spend the more you will experience.

As I unclutter my life, I free myself to answer the callings of my soul.

My life can be insanely complicated sometimes, and there's a certain simplicity that I crave.

Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward.