Quotes About Simplicity

What I want is not to become a status symbol, but to give beauty at a price.

I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters and the story are less read, and I lose interest.

My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

The 'Hey Monday' songs were always glammed up to be this big production, and I definitely want there to be some bells and whistles like synth or drum loops, but for the most part, I want a simple yet powerful production.

Simple syrup doesn't taste like anything.

The food that's never let me down in life is porridge, especially with milk and maple syrup, which is delicious. Paris isn't a porridge place, but I can buy it in London when I'm there and bring it back with me.

She's a mystery, a cipher, something nearly extinct these days: a person not controlled by ambition or greed or a crass need for attention, but by a desire to experience life completely and to make life a little easier for the people around her

In the words of the Joni Mitchell song, we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.

I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

We do not want riches, we want peace and love.

I hate to play the I-live-in-the-country card, but it really takes all of the 'pack the kids into the car and run from here to there' out of the equation.

We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant.

Happy the old people who after long experience and many trials reach this superior simplicity of true wisdom, which they had glimpsed from a distance in their childhood! With this meaning it can be said that a beautiful life is a thought of youth realized in maturity.

I don't like to own things, I feel freer when I don't own things. Silence is very important to me. I find being alone rather relaxing.

Describe plum-blossoms? Better than my verses...white Wordless Butterflies

Naar de vertraging der vlakten verlang ik, naar het gras der rust, naar wolken van eenzaam varen en de wattenwind der zuiverheid, naar de lommerdorpen van ontspanning en pastorieën der voltooide liefde.

Ich glaube an einen Fluss der vom Meer zu den Bergen fließt ich fordere nicht mehr von der Poesie als diesen Fluss zu beschreiben.

De regen op de ruit als de wind schuin staat de lampen die zwaaien boven de tramrails simpele dingen wil ik zien en horen zonder de poespas van de betekenislaag.

Full awakening called for humility in emptiness.

The reason for this is that every person permits himself the liberty of making guesses in the matter of an obscure subject with more confidence than in one which is clear, and that it is much easier to have some vague notion about any subject, no matter what, than to arrive at the real truth about a single question however simple that may be. But

The third, to conduct my thoughts in such order that, by commencing with objects the simplest and easiest to know, I might ascend by little and little, and, as it were, step by step, to the knowledge of the more complex; assigning in thought a certain order even to those objects which in their own nature do not stand in a relation of antecedence and sequence.

Friends, snow is awaiting snow, for a task to perform, simple and pure, at the boundary of earth and air.