Life Simplification Quotes

Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

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

Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm.

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

I think that the older you get, the more you become your true, essential self. You find the things that make you happy. You whittle away the parts of yourself that mean less to you.

A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.

I have accumulated so many experiences, so much, that I want to be able to realize so many things. This is why I have basically given up most of my positions.

Having a son makes everything so much more easy. You don't worry about golf as much. You don't worry about anything as much. The focus is more on him.

Life is becoming no more than staring at the screen.

I have a heart problem, so I have to simplify my life and be content with memories and friends and music.

An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they're already doing in their lives done better.

I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.

I'm so glad I'm not in college anymore. I'm so glad I'm not having kids.

He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.

That my complicated life could be made so simple was astounding.

It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.

As our smartphone becomes even smarter, mobile technology should actually take the burden out of our daily lives.

I'm a bit hesitant to do anything because I'm actually kind of lazy and I'd like an easier life from now on. The world's a massive place with lots of early mornings and late starts when you're working.

There is such a bias against people who have led successful and/or complicated lives. You know, the divestment of assets, the stripping of all kinds of positions, the sale of stocks. It just becomes very onerous and unnecessary.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

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

I find that as you get older, you start to simplify things in general.

I cleaned up everything behind the scenes and simplified my life. I made some changes in my staff. I changed management, my accountants, my bookkeeping team. I had a full refresh. For me that was extremely important.

Life is infinitely complex, and I feel like we live in a culture that really seems to want to simplify it into sound bites and bromides, and that does not work.