Quotes About Simplicity

The more possessions you have, the more you have to make room for, take care of, protect, sometimes insure, and sometimes worry about losing them to theft, fire, or other catastrophes. Yet when you start to get rid of your unneeded possessions, you can rejoice in a newfound freedom, for you are no longer "owned" by all your possessions.

Actually, clutter stems from four bad habits, which I call the Deadly Sins of Clutter. Do you: • Save everything (whether you need it or want it or not)? • Insist on bringing home (or allowing into your home) stuff you don't need? • Never assign a place where each thing belongs? • Set things aside or drop them, intending "to put them away later"?

There is an immediate emotional and psychological payoff to getting our houses in order. —Sarah Ban Breathnach, author of Simple Abundance: A Day book of Comfort and Joy

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.

We built a perfect little cottage out of sand with the help of Farley's tin and the rusting bucket, and some lichen we peeled from rocks for window-box flowers. We left it there all day, and when the tide came up, the waves refused to disturb it, only lapping away at the foundation enough to cement it more firmly to the beach.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

You Like Music, I Like Music, I Can Tell We're Going to Be Friends.

For one ridiculous moment she considered changing into something sexier—at least from the waist up, as that was all he'd see on his camera—but decided not to bother. Logan had fallen in love with her in striped T-shirts and jeans. There was no need to mess with a winning formula.

Niko was a man of few words and flying, sugary snacks. I like that in a human. ~Catcher

If I had a bad day, which, now that I ran my own life, was a helluva lot less than the old days, I sat on the floor with Houdini, placed a hand on his broad head, and soaked up endless doggy wonder. A full stomach, a well-chewed toy, a soft couch—through a dog's eyes, that was a true glory that couldn't be matched, the only heaven in existence. I missed the furball, missed him like crazy.

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned--the biggest word of all--look.

Much of what is most simple is most miraculous.

We cannot create joy and fulfillment by subtracting complexity and stress from our lives

the evening crowd on University Avenue appeared to be living in an earlier American era, one lacking desperation, hysteria, and Fox News.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. —Leonardo da Vinci

I was living in the cheapest of all paper houses, living as the Japanese themselves do, on a handful of rice, and learning by experience how very little it requires to keep body and soul together.

I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness.

The rage for 'identity' too often bespeaks a preference for simplicity rather than for complexity.

I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature.

The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.

If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.

The best things in life are not only free, they require less assembly.