Quotes About Simplicity

I feel that I am entitled to my share of lightheartedness and there is nothing wrong with enjoying one's self simply, like a boy.

In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

Our purity lies in our originality. Our intuition lies in our innocence.

Read less, study less, but think more

Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you're being right now.

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.

Be careful to not haul around in our lives so many nice but unnecessary things that we are distracted and diverted from the things that truly matter most.

Sometimes you have an idea that is so simple that you can't see how it can fail. But in learning, being right is not always the quickest way to success

Happiness hides in life's small details. If you're not looking, it becomes invisible.

This is enough was always true. We just haven't seen it.

To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

And...I think that's what life is all about, actually, about children and flowers.

If you expect to have it all, you will have nothing. Learn to be happy with nothing - and you will have it all!

Slow down in your pursuit of happiness and it's more likely to catch up with you.

We get so involved with the latest craze or having the latest car or the most high-powered house that we lose touch with that which makes us happy - what makes us happy are quiet states of mind.

Don't run away from the world. The world is God. Don't run towards the world. God is the void. Don't be afraid of the complexities of this life, nor the stark simplicity of death.

Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument.

I don't want to be king, I want to be real.