Quotes About Simplicity

One learns from the sea how little one needs, not how much. These were our islands now, islands cut off from the world of concrete and steel, from freeways and television

learns from the sea how little one needs, not how much. These were our islands now, islands cut off from the world of concrete and steel, from freeways and television

Most congenial, the booleying life, though never as exciting as the sea. Sure

It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered.

It seems to me that I have greater peace and am close to God when I am not "trying to be a contemplative," or trying to be anything special, but simply orienting my life fully and completely towards what seems to be required of a man like me at a time like this. —THOMAS MERTON

never overlook the power of simplicity

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

Their success is measured not by consumption and growth, but by graceful longevity and simplicity, by persistence while the world changed around them. It is changing now.

When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.

As for me, I would ratherBe a worm in a wild apple than a son of man.

I have grown to believeA stone is a better pillow than many visions.

originally walked away from material possessions because I felt the weight of them dragging me down. Now I don't own anything I can't afford to lose because I don't want to die one day trying to protect something I never should've cared about in the first place.

The world would be a better place if more people spent time drinking cheap coffee in church basements.

It was never meant to be a prescribed time and place for us to obsess about doing the appropriate thing at the appropriate moment all while wearing an appropriate outfit.

You cannot do more with less.

In our old age, smaller pleasures assume greater importance, don't you think?

When you don't have much, having less isn't so bad.

I've never thought much about whether I was happy or if I had fun as a child. I was a so-so girl who lived with a so-so family in a so-so village. I didn't know that there might be another way to live, and I didn't worry about it either.

My mother always told me that if you're embarrassed by a kindness and don't know what to say, keep it simple. "Thank you.

Why did the act of simplifying your life seem so complicated and require so much effort? Why was there never any time to do it?

You'll find true happiness in the smallest things.

So," Herbalist said with a smile, "you can't dance or chew meat. But if you can hear the birds sing and watch the wind in the leaves, then you still have much pleasure left.

A vida é muito menos assustadora quando se enterram as ambições e se pára de desejar coisas.

and as the sea wind blew on that high and lonely place, there began to slip away from the voter's mind the meaningless phrases that had crowded it long - thumping majority - victory in the fight - terminological inexactitudes - and the smell of paraffin lamps dangling in classrooms, and quotations taken from ancient speeches because the words were long.