Eliud Kipchoge Quotes

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.

I live a pretty simple life.

In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities.

I ate no butcher's meat, lived chiefly on fruits, vegetables, and fish, and never drank a glass of spirits or wine until my wedding day. To this I attribute my continual good health, endurance, and an iron constitution.

Being fit helps me improve my concentration, my will power and even my determination.

Leanness of body and soul may go together.

I'm just a regular person who believes life is simple, and I like a simple life.

I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

Let thine occupations be few, saith the sage, if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life.

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

A simple life is its own reward.

Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.

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.

The simplified life is a sanctified life, Much more calm, much less strife. Oh, what wondrous truths are unveiled- Projects succeed which had previously failed. Oh, how beautiful life can be, Beautiful simplicity.

I am teaching you to live simply. To live with an idea is a very complicated living, it is cunning. To live simply, just like trees and birds.

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

Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

Every day there are small moments when we have a choice: will we take in more stuff, or just clear our minds out for a bit?

Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

Living simply makes loving simple.

Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

There is a close relationship between a house full of possessions and a heart full of desires, between a cluttered closet and a crowded schedule, between having no place to put possessions and having no priorities for our life. These are precious clues. They remind us to slow down, to live in the present, to reduce the desires that drain our vitality, to clarify priorities so we can give our time and attention to what matters most. Tragically, in the press of modern life, we have managed to get backwards one of life's most vital truths: people are to be loved; things are to be used.

I really am a recluse. I just enjoy watching the wind blow through the trees. In America someone who sits around and does that is at the bottom of the ladder, but in Japan, say, someone who goes up into the mountains is accorded great respect. I guess I am somewhere in between. I enjoy reclusion: it clears my mind.