Sigurd T. Olson Quotes

Simplicity of life is an essential for greatness of life.

Simplicity. Simplicity. Simplicity. The three keys to a spiritual life.

As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital "S" - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means.

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

One day, observing a child drinking out of his hands, he cast away the cup from his wallet with the words, "A child has beaten me in plainness of living."

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.

A simple life is its own reward.

The less I needed, the better I felt.

The easiest way of life is the best.

Enjoy the simple, the natural and the plain. Along with that comes the ability to do things spontaneously and have them work.

Simplicity is the whole secret of well-being.

Live uncluttered lives so you could have time for what is most important.

One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much.

I'm a minimalist in a rapper's body.

Moby lives the simplest of any person I think I know.

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

Life is not that complicated.

I don't buy much. Almost buy nothing. I buy what I need, do it the easiest way possible.

In my life, what I want and what I need are exactly the same. Anything in excess of needs is burdensome to me. You couldn't give me anything I don't need. I am penniless, but have difficulty remaining so. Several of my well meaning, well-to-do friends have offered me large sums of money, which I of course refused.

In everything, love simplicity.

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

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.

I am learning that a man can live profoundly without masses of things.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

I'm not a minimalist, as I'm sure you've noticed.