Finding Joy in Simplicity Quotes

Realize How Little you Need in Order to be Satisfied and at Peace.

The secret to happiness is to lower your expectations. ...that is what you compare your experience with. If your expectations and standards are very high and only allow yourself to be happy when things are exquisite, you'll never be happy and grateful. There will always be some flaw. But compare your experience with lower expectations, especially something not as good, and you'll find much in your experience of the world to love, cherish and enjoy, every single moment.

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

Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs.

It keeps you grounded, you lead a regular life and you appreciate things more.

People who have little, but much joy, inspire me.

A simple life is its own reward.

The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.

Who lives content with little possesses everything.

For all the cynicism that the world contains, people are a little more open to those things that maybe are to do with returning you to some kind of simpler, happier state.

As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude.

I like the simple things. I don't know why. I'm that way. I came from a simple place.

my mother was taught the ch'an concept of happiness, which was to find satisfaction in small things. i was taught to appreciate the fresh air in the morning, the colour of leaves turning red in autumn and the water's smoothness when i soaked my hands in the basin.

The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.

Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have.

Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain.

Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought, it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it.

Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what we think will make us happy.

To be satisfied with little is hard, to be satisfied with a lot is impossible.

Happy is the person who has learned the secret of being content with whatever life brings him, and has learned to rejoice in the simple and beautiful things around him.

The secret of contentment lay in ignoring many things completely.

Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.

Many of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom - the less you need, the freer you become.

But what is to be done? Is it possible to infect ourselves on purpose just in order to have the satisfaction of dying beautifully and tranquilly? No! What is to be done? We must live while we are alive, eat dry bread if there is no roast beef, know many women if it is not possible to love a woman, and, in general, we must not dream about orange trees and palms, when under foot are snowdrifts and the cold tundra.

The joy sometimes is in the simple beauty.