Quotes About Simplicity

It has often been said there's so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head. So the writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads. That's why my belief is the briefer the brief is, the greater the sigh of the reader's relief is. And that's why your books have such power and strength. You publish with shorth! (Shorth is better than length.)

Writing simply means no dependent clauses, no dangling things, no flashbacks, and keeping the subject near the predicate. We throw in as many fresh words we can get away with. Simple, short sentences don't always work. You have to do tricks with pacing, alternate long sentences with short, to keep it vital and alive.... Virtually every page is a cliffhanger--you've got to force them to turn it."~

Some things can only be understood when you're in a tree house. With a pile of warm chocolate chip cookies. And a book.

People overestimate the pleasure they'll get from having more stuff. This does not apply to new rose bushes, crayons, or yarn stashes.

Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1189) with her prophetic gift and depth of vision, was the first to describe the healing powers of food. Hildegard's nutritional approach is simple and healthy

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends that's the good stuff in life.

Das Dao liebt nicht Geschäftigkeit. Geschäftigkeit führt zu Überlastung; Überlastung führt zu Unruhe; Unruhe führt zu Sorgen, und mit Sorgen ist man rettungslos verloren.

Living simply is not about living in poverty or self-inflicted deprivation. It's about living an examined life where one has determined what is truly important and enough … and then just let go of all the rest.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

Our pleasures were simple-they included survival.

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.

The lesson here is, don't try to cram too much into one sentence; and the issue lies less in length than it does in content. Any time you feel the need to explain some aspect of your basic sentence, take pause. Odds are that what's bothering you really calls for an additional sentence or two or three, so that you can keep your developing line of thought straight and clear and simple.

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

I'll live a lush life in some small dive.

When you reduce what you need in life to the bare minimum, then that's when you achieve true freedom.

The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.

The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things.

There's no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that's been the realization of the past few years for me.

Life is so very simple when you have no facts to confuse you.

Take it easy, and remember "Easy is Right."