Quotes About Simplicity

I've yet to see any problem, however complicated, which when you looked at it the right way didn't become still more complicated.

Hidup sungguh sangat sederhana. Yang hebat-hebat hanya tafsirannya.

How simple life is. It's as simple as this: you're hungry and you eat, you're full and you shit. Between eating and shitting, that's where human life is found. - (Houseboy + Maid, in Tales from Djakarta)

Jarang orang mau mengakui, kesederhanaan adalah kekayaan yang terbesar di dunia ini: suatu karunia alam. Dan yang terpenting diatas segala-galanya ialah keberaniannya. Kesederhaan adalah kejujuran, dan keberanian adalah ketulusan.

Berbahagialah mereka yang bodoh, karena mereka kurang menderita. Berbahagialah juga kanak-kanak yang belum membutuhkan pengetahuan untuk dapat mengerti.

Berbahagialah dia yang tak tahu sesuatu. Pengetahuan, perbandingan, membuat orang tahu tempatnya sendiri, dan tempat orang lain,gelisah dalam alam perbandingan.

Cerita, selamanya tentang manusia, kehidupannya, bukan kematiannya. Ya, biarkan yang ditampilkannya itu hewan, raksasa, atau dewa, atau hantu. Dan tak ada yang lebih sulit difahami daripada sang manusia. Jangan anggap remeh si manusia, yang kelihatannya begitu sederhana, biar pengelihatanmu setajam elang, pikiranmu setajam pisau cukur, perabaanmu lebih peka dari para dewa, pendengaranmu dapat menangkap musik dan ratap tangis kehidupan, pengetahuanmu tentang manusia takkan bakal bisa kemput.

How far do you have to travel to find yourself? Do you have to go anywhere to find you? Where do you think you have to go? To some holy place to find yourself? Wherever you are, you are. And all you have to know, is to get to know yourself. That is so simple.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

he never asked nor accepted any reward, because he was good and simple and did not think that one did good for a reward.

Live a simple life so others can simply live

He turned towards his companion and said: How did you find him? The other said : He is the richest who is content with the least !!

Make it simple, but honorable.

Nail it, and it's astounding how exciting simplicity can be.

No limits. Just horizons. Only straightforwardness.

Take time to smell the roses

Children and fools have merry lives.

Frugality is misery in disguise.

Attired to please herself: no gems of any kind She wore, nor aught of borrowed gloss in Nature's stead; And, then her long, loose hair flung round her head Fell carelessly behind.

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!

Lao Tzu said, "In Tao, you should reduce something every day.

In Taoism, we drop things. Since our infancy, we have learned many things that separate us from the universe. We worry about trivial matters, like wealth and prestige. Now we want to return to our origins, to be more like a baby and forget these distractions. We want to do nothing. This is Wu Wei.

There are so many things to say in the language of our kind, but really, nothing more needs to be said.

I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.