Quotes About Simplicity

Specific application ideas include selling your television, avoiding the news for the remainder of your days, staying out of noisy shopping malls where you buy things you don't need, unfriending energy-draining people you follow on social platforms

Nunca descuides el poder de la sencillez

unless you reduce your needs, you will never be fulfilled.

My life became so much simpler and meaningful when I left the baggage of my past behind.

This is the all-important Ritual of Simplicity. This ritual requires you to live a simple life. As Yogi Raman said 'one must never live in the thick of thin things. Focus only on your priorities, those activities that are truly meaningful. Your life will be uncluttered, rewarding and exceptionally peaceful. This I promise you.

life's greatest pleasures are often life's simplest ones.

Stop picking up the phone every time it rings, stop wasting time reading junk mail, stop eating out three times a week, give up your golf-club membership and spend more time with your kids, spend a day a week without your watch, watch the sun rise every few days, sell your cellular phone and dump the pager.

The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasures of life, I began to enjoy the little ones, like watching the stars dancing in a moonlit sky or soaking in the the sunbeams of a glorious summer morning. And India is such an intellectually stimulating place that I rarely thought of all I had left.

You can understand and relate to most people better if you look at them - no matter how impressive they may be - as if they are children. For most of us never really grow up or mature all that much - we simply grow taller. Oh, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.

Less is more, you know? You're attempting too much. Geniuses understand that it's smarter to create one masterwork than one thousand ordinary pieces.

Stop spending so much time chasing life's big pleasures while you neglect the little ones.

Los mayores tesoros de la vida son, desde luego, sus momentos más sencillos», reflexionó. Esos hechos cotidianos que la mayoría damos por sentados. Hasta que los perdemos.

Yogi Raman detected his dismay. "Never overlook the power of simplicity," Julian was told.

Life is too short to take things too seriously.

Tan pronto prescindí de los grandes placeres de la vida, empecé a disfrutar de los pequeños, como ver un cielo estrellado al claro de luna o empaparme de sol en una gloriosa mañana de verano.

Life's finest treasures live in its simplest moments

work on one high-value activity at a time instead of relentlessly multitasking—and do so in a quiet environment.

El tiempo es la mercancía más preciada y no es renovable • Centrarse en las prioridades y mantener el equilibrio • Simplificar la vida

most of us never really grow up or mature all that much — we simply grow taller. Oh, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.

Learning to say no to the non-essentials will give you more time to devote to the things that have the power to truly improve the way you live and help

Los placeres más simples de nuestra vida son nuestras mayores alegrías.

The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasures of life, I began to enjoy the little ones, like watching the stars dancing in a moonlit sky or soaking in the sunbeams of a glorious summer morning.

Stop spending so much time chasing life's big pleasures while you neglect the little ones. Slow things down. Enjoy the beauty and sacredness of all that is around you.

It was almost a relief, no longer having to be extraordinary. To give up on existential questioning and simply abide.