Quotes About Simplicity

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.

In the jungle, you learn about the other beauties in life. In everyday life, it's all about looking perfect, but in there, there's none of that.

I don't like things too overstated in the cut or too perfect.

Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.

Freshly grated nutmeg over fresh pasta with truffle oil is simple perfection. It's also integral in any good bechamel or chai mix.

My head is perfectly clean inside.

I don't wear perfume, and I don't like the air to be too saturated with scents.

Produce what you consume; draw from the native element the necessaries of life. Permit no vitiated taste to lead you into the indulgence of expensive luxuries, which can only be obtained by involving yourselves in debt.

La vida pastoral de otro tiempo vuelve a hallarse aquí; la misma vida bíblica, con toda su sencillez y su grandiosidad.

He turned his head and saw a daisy growing by his nose. He picked it, sniffed it, and then handed it to Carlitos, who lay beside him. Carlitos took it from him and was about to smell it too, but instead he crammed it into his mouth and ate it.

DREAM INTERPRETATION Simplified. Everything's either concave or -vex, so whatever you dream will be something with sex.

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.

Fix it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.

There is truth in wine and children

The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

A man must have a less than ordinary share of sense that would furnish such plain and common rooms with silver-footed couches and purple coverlets and gold and silver plate.

There is no need to have any special attitude while drinking except one of thankfulness. The nature of the tea itself is that of no-mind.

The early morning is mine and I'm glad of it. Back home, I bumble about in my vest and shorts, tipping water from the icebox into a bucket to swab the floor, pushing the new block into place. I boil coffee on the Primus and sing to myself as I start clearing away last night's dinner things, carefully observing our systems for the conservation of water.

This emptiness, it turned out, was a revolutionary discovery, full of possibilities to free me from my lifelong blind faith in realism, which suddenly seemed so naïve and simpleminded.

Simple living high thinking..!!

I am only a poor man, accustomed to small things and silence.

The world calls for and expects from us simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor, obedience and humility... Without this mark of holiness, our word will have difficulty in touching the heart of modern man. It risks being vain and sterile.