Quotes About Simplicity

The idea is to carry everything on your back, forget your troubles, and let tomorrow take care of itself.

It's better to live an ordinary life. If you go on striving for this and that, you'll end up paying with your life.

In times like these, who had either the leisure or the inclination to indulge in a touch of elegance?

To learn to be without desire you must desire that. Better to do as you please: sing idleness. Floating clouds, and water idly running -- Where's their source? In all the vastness of the sea and sky, you'll never find it.

In the very simplicity of her desire to punish herself appeared egoism in its purest form. Never before had this woman who seemed to think only of herself experienced an egoism so immaculate.

Perché i tempi sono degenerati fino a questo punto? Perché la gioventù, l'ambizione e la semplicità sono decadute e il mondo è diventato così biasimevole?

what has no place in a poem has no place in my house.

I tried to make sense of the Four Books, until love arrived, and it all became a single syllable.

The age calls for simple statements and restatements of simple truths. The prophets of doom are involved, those who would bring light must be clear.

Humans think in stories rather than in facts, numbers, or equations, and the simpler the story, the better.

Diogenes, the Greek philosopher who founded the Cynical school, lived in a barrel. When Alexander the Great once visited Diogenes as he was relaxing in the sun, and asked if there were anything he might do for him, the Cynic answered the all-powerful conqueror, 'Yes, there is something you can do for me. Please move a little to the side. You are blocking the sunlight.

Los humanos pensamos más en relatos que en hechos, números o ecuaciones, y cuanto más sencillo es el relato, mejor.

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

The more you know, the less you need.

Good design is as little design as possible.

In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness. Studying

I think that in life you don't need too much; you need friends, you need to do what you like doing.

That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.

The pebbleis a perfect creatureequal to itselfmindful of its limitsfilled exactlywith a pebbly meaning

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

Before enlightenment — chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment — chop wood, carry water.

When walking, walk. When eating, eat.

Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.