Daphne du Maurier Quotes

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

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

A simple life is its own reward.

The time will come when mankind will begin to get away from the consciousness of needing so many material things. More security and peace will be found in the simple life.

Living simply makes loving simple.

I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.

I don't have a desire for material things. As long as I'm happy, I'm good, man.

I try to keep my life fairly simple. Being humble is really important.

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

The most powerful life is the most simple life. The most powerful life is the life that knows where it's going, that knows where the source of strength is; it is the life that stays free of clutter and happenstance and hurriedness.

I love a life whose plot is simple.

Become simple and live simply, not only within yourself but also in your everyday dealings. Don’t make ripples all around you, don’t try to be interesting, keep your distance, be honest, fight the desire to be thought fascinating by the outside world.

Buddha says: Life should be simple, not complex. Life should be based on needs, not on desires. Needs are perfectly okay: you need food, you need clothes, you need a shelter, you need love, you need relationship. Perfectly good, nothing wrong in it. Needs can be fulfilled; desires are basically unfulfillable. Desires create complexity. They create complexity because they can never be fulfilled. You go on and on working hard for them, and they remain unfulfilled, and you remain empty.

Blessed are the simple, for they shall have much peace.

I really keep my life very simple.

The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.

How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

No benefit is more constant than simplicity; no happiness more constant than peace.

From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.

My life is very simple. I like simplicity and for my time to be my own, so that I have the freedom to devote the majority of it to Islam.

If one's life is simple, contentment has to come.

As the water pounded on my back, I reflected that I must be pretty simple. It didn't take much to make me happy. A long night with a dead guy had done the trick.

If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements.

Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections upon itself.