Quotes About Simplicity

I have always believed that the man who begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. In an age of extravagance and waste, I wish I could show to the world how few the real wants of humanity are.

If I started to write elaborately, or like someone introducing or presenting something, I found that I could cut that scrollwork or ornament out and throw it away and start with the first true simple declarative sentence I had written. Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it was good and severe discipline.

He did not want them themselves really. They were too complicated. There was something else. Vaguely he wanted a girl but he did not want to have to work to get her. He would have liked to have a girl but he did not want to have to spend a long time getting her. He did not want to get into the intrigue and the politics. He did not want to have to do any courting. He did not want to tell any more lies. It wasn't worth it.

What simplicity," the scarred-faced brother, who was called Andrés, said. "And how do you explode them?

Desconfio de todas as pessoas francas e simples, principalmente quando suas histórias são coerentes.

But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond.

Pray for anything you like, if it is for the good of us all. -I pray for beer, for meat and for a new wife with hard hands. You can share the wife.

The very beginning was written and all he had to do was go on. That's all, he said. You see how simple what you cannot do is?

Dele poca importancia al vestir y no le dé ninguna importancia a la moda, cómprese vestidos cómodos y que duren, y con lo ahorrado en vestir podrá comprar cuadros

In those days you did not really need anything, not even the rabbit's foot, but it was good to feel it in your pocket.

this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy

We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other. 'I

Desconfío de todas las personas francas y sencillas, especialmente cuando sus historias parecen tener lógica

But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

Our pleasures, which were those of being in love, were as simple and still as mysterious and complicated as a simple mathematical formula that can mean happiness of can mean the end of the world.

Our pleasures, which were those of being in love, were as simple and still as mysterious and complicated as a simple mathematical formula that can mean all happiness or can mean the end of the world.

After all if I'm trying to write books without any extra words I might as well stick to it.

Todo hombre que empieza a vivir de una manera seria por dentro, empieza también a llevar una vida más sencilla por fuera

He was too simple to wonder how he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.

There was nothing to it, gentlemen. All a man need ever do is obey.

The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.

Write the truest sentence you know.

William James, in his "Talks to Teachers," derided that "ceaseless frenzy" in which we always feel that we "should be doing something else." The ceaseless frenzy, the race through life, are symptomatic of the numbing of spirituality.

And when you go to God's house, it ain't got to be no fashion show. You just come as you are.