Quotes About Simplicity

THE BELL AND THE BLACKBIRD (excerpt) The sound of a bell still reverberating, or a blackbird calling from a corner of a field. Asking you to wake into this life or inviting you deeper to one that waits. Either way takes courage, either way wants you to be nothing but that self that is no self at all, wants you to walk to the place where you find you already know how to give every last thing away.

The Devil fights from behind barricades of linguistic complexity, but the war of words will be won by those armed only with simplistic truths

Glittering generalities are designed to blind you from the dull Devil in the details

Thoreau once said that a man's riches are based on what he can do without. Perhaps in needing less, you're actually getting more.

What we do as a society is seek simple answers.

Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.

What are you, a Hindu?" he replied, "No, I'm an Undo" (another reason we chose this book's title). "Peace comes not from doing, but from undoing; not from getting, but from letting go. It's there already until you disturb it. The purpose of all spiritual practices is to stop disturbing what you already have.

We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.

If your life truths have to be protected like some people keep their couches in plastic then ciao. have a nice life. if we bump into eachoter at Target, i'm the one buying the sour gummy worms and thats all you need to know about me.

So if your life truths have to be protected the same way some people keep their couches in plastic, then ciao. Have a nice life. If we bump into each other at Target, I'm the one buying the sour gummy worms, and that's all you need to know about me.

Someone walking toward you is such a simple, happy-to-be-alive thing.

Love in its purest form. Not television love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint; not sex and allure, all high shoes and high drama, everything both too small and in too much excess. But just love. Love like rain, like the smell of a tangerine, like a surprise found in your pocket.

He was like one great big Sunday afternoon -- the kind where you stay in your PJs and watch movies and eat popcorn. Where life is at it's uncomplicated best.

We can't get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.

Kasih sayang itu norak, kalau benar-benar dicermati.

Simplicity is efficient.

At the end of your story, you get down to the purity of it all. It's like distilling something.

Give yourself permission to enjoy this present moment. Resist the urge to fill it with I need to's, I shoulds, I coulds. Trying to fill all your present moments is impeding the natural flow of life.

Discover the beauty of life through the eyes of a child.

Black and white is mix of toughest simplicity and easiest complexity.

See the world from another perspective and things would be simple.

Open your mind to fill it with everything that is beautiful. Ignore the rest.

Most beautiful things comes to us free of charge.

Magic is in simplicity. Simplicity is the ultimate expression of beauty.