Quotes About Essentials

My jiu-jitsu is very simple and basic.

My cooking is very simple, so I don't really use machines at all. A knife, cutting board, frying pan and strainer are my essentials.

I think what really people want is just a few things done really, really well. And if you think about ever day of your life, the things you really appreciate aren't the complicated things. They're the simple things that work just the way you expect them to.

Life was reduced to its four basic elements: air, food, drink, and a good friend.

We view the world on a molecular level. The building blocks, not the end results.

It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials - I loved her, she maybe loved me, I was foolish, I suffered - it became vacuous and trite, meaningless to anyone else. In the end, it's only the moments that we have, the kiss on the palm, the joint wonder at the furrowed texture of a fir trunk or at the infinitude of grains of sand in a dune. Only the moments.

Instincts and fundamentals take over sometimes.

What's really important in life is always the things that are secondary.

I don't think that the basics that kids need have changed in 10,000 years.

I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer.

How many things can I do without?

Two suitcases, in one the wardrobe, the earthly essentials, in the other- manuscripts, the spiritual supplies, then you are at home everywhere-Zweig GW Tagebuecher p. 383

which were necessities.

A good rule of thumb is: Pack twice as many books as changes of underwear.

I'm not too big on moisturisers and fancy skin products. I keep my grooming regime nice and simple.

In essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, in all things charity and love.

I also said no to a first-aid kit, sewing kit, anti-snake-bite kit, $12 emergency whistle, and small orange plastic shovel for burying one's poop, on the grounds that these were unnecessary, too expensive, or invited ridicule.

Funny, how the things you have the hardest time parting with are the things you need the least.

Two days ago I gathered together supplies for the journey: food, blankets, a small saucepan in which to heat water and some rags.

It's the living, the eating, the sleeping that everyone needs. Ideas don't matter so much after all.

She felt, as she did most mornings, the deep pleasure of daily life distilled to the essentials: books, walks, spaces in which to think and work.

felt, as she did most mornings, the deep pleasure of daily life distilled to the essentials: books, walks, spaces in which to think

Two must-haves for me are a great book and my iPod.

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.