Quotes About Simplicity

El gozo de ser comprendido no puede disfrutarlo quien quiere ser comprendido, porque eso sólo les sucede a los complejos y a los incomprendidos; y los demás, los sencillos, los que pueden ser comprendidos por los demás, ésos nunca sienten el deseo de ser comprendidos.

Other people's understanding of us is made up of so many complex misunderstandings. Anyone who wants to be understood will never know the delight of being understood, because this happens only to the complex and misunderstood; simple souls, the ones whom other people can understand, never feel a desire to be understood.

I suddenly felt something like tenderness for that man. I felt the tenderness one feels for common human banality, for the daily routine of the family breadwinner going to work, for his humble and happy home, for the happy and sad pleasures that necessarily make up his life, for the innocence of living without analysing, for the animal naturalness of that coat-covered back.

It's good to live alone, And noble and great Always to live simply.

Want little: you'll have everything. Want nothing: you'll be free.

Baste a quem basta o que lhe basta O bastante de lhe bastar! A vida é breve, a alma é vasta: Ter é tardar.

Happy the man, then, who renounces everything and from whom, therefore, nothing can be taken or subtracted.

Ik heb nooit meer van het leven verlangd dan dat dat niets van mij zou eisen.

I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me. A nearby field, a ray of sunlight, a little bit of calm along with a bit of bread, not to feel oppressed by the knowledge that I exist, not to demand anything from others, and not to have others demand anything from me—this was denied me, like the spare change we might deny a beggar not because we're mean-hearted but because we don't feel like unbuttoning our coat.

Dormimos ali acordados dias, contentes de não ser nada, de não ter desejos nem esperanças, de nos termos esquecido da cor dos amores e do sabor dos ódios.

I'M HELD by nothing, I hold on to nothing, I belong to nothing.

No le he pedido a la vida sino que no me pidiese nada.

To be that with a certain knowledge, neither happy nor sad, but thankful to the sun for its brilliance and to the stars for their remoteness. To be nothing more, to have nothing more, to desire nothing further... The music of the starving beggar, the song of the blind man, the relic of the unknown vagabond, the hoof-prints in the desert of an unladen camel without a point of arrival".

Teu vestido porque é teu, Não é de cetim nem chita. É de sermos tu e eu E de tu seres bonita.

A tua janela é alta, A tua casa branquinha. Nada lhe sobra ou lhe falta Senão morares sozinha.

When I reached the barrack I paid no attention to anything or anybody but went straight to a bed and lay on it and fell into a full and simple sleep. Compared with this sleep, death is a restive thing, peace is a clamour and darkness a burst of light.

When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pathe News. I was in it too with the chicken. I was just there to assist the chicken but it was the high point in my life. Everything since has been anticlimax.

There won't be any biographies of me, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken farm do not make for exciting copy.

I'm a family man now. I don't need no distractions; I don't need no big cities, no big lights, at this point in my career.

Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.

I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.

I just go out and sing my songs. I don't put on elaborate stage shows with ridiculous fancy dress.

I don't like fancy fiddly girlie stuff.

I've never been the type of guy that's ever needed a lot of things or any fancy things, but my lifelong goal has always been to have a piece of land and a house.