“A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.”

“Places that are empty of you are empty of life.”

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) English poet, illustrator, painter and translator

“Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“I have a simple, childlike view of life, and I want to keep it. That’s why I never got into that Beverly Hills world. So many pretentious people. They just aren’t real.”

Tina Turner (1939) singer, dancer, actress, and author

“Why not? Life is short, life is dull, life is full of pain - and this is a chance for something special.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

“Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.”

Tom Robbins (1932) American writer

“Make your life work instead of making life full of work.”

Stephen R. Covey book First Things First

“It was as simple as that - they met. As simple as only beautiful things can be beautiful, as only life-changing things, turning-point things, can be simple.

("For The Rest Of Her Life")”

Cornell Woolrich (1903–1968) American author and screenwriter

“And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart?”

James Joyce book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“I realized that there is nothing whatever outside of the life we have; that the "meaning of life" is nothing other than life itself, obstinately asserting itself against emptiness and nullity.”

Robert Hughes (1938–2012) Australian critic, historian, writer