Quotes About Simplicity

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

If a man can reduce his needs to zero, he is truly free: there is nothing that can be taken from him and nothing anyone can do to hurt him.

She loves throwing things out. At home alone during the week before she fell over all she did was throw things out – blouses, old dinner-sets, shoes, vases, mugs, sheets and rugs. It excited her to empty cupboards, to wipe down the empty shelves, to take the things we were throwing out to the tip, she loved our trips to the tip, her mind quickened at the prospect of the tip.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.—Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.

A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite.

If you take all your meals seriously, none of them gets a chance to matter.

Cuando no penséis, cuando tan sólo améis, ya no volveréis a «intentar» comprender o amar; simplemente lo haréis.

First there's the children's house of make believe,Some shattered dishes underneath a pine,The playthings in the playhouse of the children.Weep for what little things could make them glad.

Why make so much of fragmentary blueIn here and there a bird, or butterfly,Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye,When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

Think what a better world it would be if we all-the whole world-had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess. And it is still true, no matter how old you are-when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well.

My dog," he said, "just barks and plays -has all he wants to eat. He never works- has no trouble about business. In a little while he dies, and that is all. I work with all my strength. I have no time to play. I have trouble every day. In a little while I will die, and then I go to hell. I wish that I had been a dog.

Everyone wants a single, simple solution," he said, now finishing his last few chips. "One weird trick to lose belly fat. I've never clicked on it, but I understand the appeal.

Why complicate your life when it did not need complicating, when you had a choice?

Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.

Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry. ? Robert Hass, from "Meditation at Lagunitas," Praise ( ? Ecco, July 10, 1999)

Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.

The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.

There is always a commanding and simple line around each head. Learn to have a love for the big simple line.

Whoever said happiness needs a plan?