Quotes About Simplicity

William Morris that you should have nothing in your house that you didn't know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

Ursula missed the sound of church bells. There were so many simple things she had taken for granted before the war. She wished that she could go back and appreciate them properly.

every increased possession loads us with weariness, and he's right." There

disengaging from the rat race Jackson

Morris says that you should have nothing in your house that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful," she

Plain and simple, I hope, in a fairy tale way: in fairy tales it is often the humble to whom magic is revealed.

I scrambled to pack my things, glad I owned so little.

My mother was a cook of the plain, simple, homey variety, which was perfect for our undeveloped palates. She wasn't a puritan or a health nut, but she greatly cared what we ate and took pains to serve us good meals every night. Sometimes, when she dished up one of her typical home-cooked dinners, and we told her how good it was and asked for seconds, she would say half joking, "Aw, it's nothing but a blue plate special!

He had been so lonely, so desperately, hopelessly lonely for so long. He might very well spend the rest of his life in prison, alone. And he understood that what he wanted now was something much simpler, much more complicated than the magic he had performed. What he wanted was to turn to somebody and take hold of their hand and look up with them and marvel at the snow falling from the sky. "This," he wanted to say to someone he loved and who loved him in return. "This.

I wanted to rest my eyes on green meadows. I wanted to sit on green grass under the shade of a green tree. I wanted to eat cool green salads. I longed for arugula tossed with olive oil and parmesan, for asparagus tips dripping with melted butter, for a salad of sweet and bitter green leaves. Most of all, I longed for fish and parsley soup.

Kukira yang paling kusukai dari dirinya adalah bahwa dia membuat kesederhanaan jadi indah. Kedengarannya mudah, tapi hal besar pada saat itu. Sekarang juga masih. Berapa kali kau berada di restoran yang seharusnya bagus tapi kau bahkan tidak bisa merasakan makanannya karena terselubung dalam... inovasi?

Their bodies lifted up, clean and simple to her in the clear, unconscious awareness of each of their cells' sensing that she would grunt out strong young.

They decided they were too hooked on money and success, so they bought that old farm and they're going to farm it and think about what's important.

The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry.

It's all so beautiful . . . the spring . . . and books and music and fires. . . . Why aren't they enough?

There is nothing more difficult than simplicity, and therefore, nothing more refined.

She tore off a piece of baguette; it was both crusty and soft, still warm in the centre. It was amazing how something so simple, so basic could be this delicious.

What does he want you to do? What does she? And how can this be accomplished with the least effort possible so that time will be left for the real, important things? Here we are, figuring out how to survive in a hive of hierarchies, and they want us to memorize dates and decline agricola.

Every day a sharp tool, a powerful destroyer, is necessary to cut away dullness, lobotomy, buzzing, belief in human beings, stagnancy, images, and accumulation. As soon as we stop believing in human beings, rather know we are dogs and trees, we'll start to be happy.

I did not wake up one day to find myself mad. Life should be so simple.

I have tried to live very quietly, so I could be happy.

A thing cannot be delivered enough times: this is the rule of dogs for whom there are no fool's errands. To loop out and come back is good all alone. It's gravy to carry a ball or a bone.

Spui c? sunteÈ›i singuri? SunteÈ›i siguri c? v? iubiÈ›i? De unde È™tiÈ›i asta? CredeÈ›i c? dragostea e chiar atât de simpl??

And yet what precisely is "greatness"? […] I would say that it is the very lack of obvious drama or spectacle that sets the beauty of our land apart. What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint. It is though the land knows of its own beuty, of its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.