Cheryl Strayed Quotes

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

When everything in life gets so complicated it only takes a day to change it

Real wisdom is simple. Living life rightly does not have to be a complicated challenge.

God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

Living simply makes loving simple.

All my life, I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself.

Life isn't easy but it's not as complicated as we make it out to be.

I kind of got out of the spotlight and life's never been this good.

One thing about having children is that even as it complicates many aspects of your life, it simplifies others.

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

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

Trust that through the balm of simplicity your frazzled and weary soul can discover the place where you ought to be. Every day offers us simple gifts when we are willing to search our hearts for the place that's right for each of us.

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.

Pray God, keep us simple.

The Universe loves grateful people. The more grateful you are, the more you get to be grateful about. It's that simple. Life is really that simple. We make it enormously complicated, but it doesn't have to be.

Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our brows, and take up a little life into our pores. Do not stay to be an overseer of the poor, but endeavor to become one of the worthies of the world.

A simple life is its own reward.

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.

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?

Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

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.

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

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.

I am a simple Buddhist monk.