Quotes About Simplicity

Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

Is it so nice as all that?' asked the Mole shyly, though he was quite prepared to believe it as he leant back in his seat and surveyed the cushions, the oars, the rowlocks, and all the fascinating fittings, and felt the boat sway lightly under him. 'Nice? It's the ONLY thing,' said the Water Rat solemnly, as he leant forward for his stroke.

The precious ordinary. I

I told you I don't want to live like that anymore—for other people, what they think, what they believe. I don't think it's the way to live. It isn't for me anyway. All right. I wish I had your good sense. You're right, of course. Are you over it now? I'm getting there. Do you want another beer? No. But if you want more wine I'll sit here with you while you drink it. I'll just watch you.

have been sailing with almost bare poles

The simplest things are the hardest to understand.

some stories don't need telling

I wanted to tell them that, in Kabul, we snapped a tree branch and used it as a credit card. Hassan and I would take the wooden stick to the bread maker. He'd carve notches on our stick with his knife, one notch for each loaf of naan he'd pull for us from the tandoor's roaring flames. At the end of the month, my father paid him for the number of notches on the stick. That was it. No questions. No ID.

Ada sebongkah batu di pinggir ladangnya, dan dia duduk di permukaannya yang datar. Dia kerap duduk di sana selama satu jam lebih, menatap bintang-bintang, juga awan yang berarak melintasi bulan. Dia merenungi kehidupan panjangnya dan bersyukur atas kelimpahan dan rahmat yang diterimanya. Sungguh picik jika dia menginginkan lebih banyak, berharap lebih banyak.

Männer sind nicht kompliziert, sagte er und trommelte mit den Fingern auf seinen Mahagoni-Schreibtisch . Die Genitalien eines Mannes sind wie sein Verstand: simpel, sehr wenige Überraschungen. Aber die Damen sind da schon anders ... nun, der liebe Gott hat sich eben Gedanken gemacht, als er Sie und Ihre Geschlechtsgenossinen erschuf.

Man has made a discovery ... the way to make life easy is to make it meaningless.

See, this was why I liked coffee. You couldn't screw up making coffee. Even the bad stuff was good.

Only three flowers?" he said, clearly thinking that I should have more, and I smiled nervously. I didn't want a bouquet.

With all the conveniences and clean simplicity we lived in, people had lost a lot of polish.

Do you work a job that slowly kills you so you can afford health coverage to pay medical expenses? Or do you live right with the earth and make your own way, keep things simple, and take care of yourself?

Possess nothing and be possessed by nothing. Put away what you have in your head, give what you have in your heart. Here a world and there a world, we are seated on the threshold.

He wanted to settle into a full human life, to pick a place and stay there, to learn it completely, in all its seasons, to grow his food, make his house and his tools, become part of a community of friends.

doesn't require very complicated math. One guy told me that if you just designed a clean data display, people were amazed.

She wore no jewellery, just her wedding ring.

Why are black holes so different from all other objects in the macroscopic Universe? Why are they, and they alone, so elegantly simple? If I knew the answer, it would probably tell me something very deep about the nature of physical laws. But I don't know.

In art we do not make things any simpler by making simpler things. Reduction does not yield certainty, but something like its opposite, which is ambiguity and multi-valence.

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

He never read a book but often thought about God; it was unavoidable, a matter of simplicity and awe. The starry sky, the soughing of the forest, the solitude, the big snow, the majesty of the earth and what was above the earth filled him with a deep devoutness many times a day. He was sinful and godfearing; on Sundays he washed himself in honour of the holy day but worked as usual.

Det kan regne og storme, det er ikke derpaa det kommer an, ofte kan en liten Glæde bemægtige sig en paa en Regnveirsdag og faa en til at gaa avsides med sin Lykke. Man stiller sig da op og gir sig til at se ret frem, nu og da ler man tyst og ser sig omkring. Hvad tenker man paa? En klar Rute i et Vindu, en Solstraale i Ruten, en Utsigt til en liten Bæk og kanske til en blaa Rift på Himlen. Det behøver ikke at være mere.