Quotes About Simplicity

Remember sarcasm is forbidden and sincerity the order of the day. You are country folks now, and it will do you good to try their simple, honest ways for a few days.

Pan ácimo, gachas y agua para desayunar; pan, verdura y agua para almorzar; y pan, fruta y agua para cenar conformaban el repertorio de alimentos visado por los venerables. No había teteras que profanaran los fogones sagrados, ni filetes sangrientos que chillaran estertóreos pidiendo venganza desde las castas parrillas, pues los únicos sacrificios que se ofrendaban en aquel altar doméstico eran el apetito, el tiempo y el humor de una mujer valiente.

There was a good deal of laughing, and kissing, and explaining, in the simple, loving fashion which makes these home festivals so pleasant at the time, so sweet to remember long afterward, then all fell to work. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

La sencillez es el mejor encanto de todo poder.

It takes so little to make a child happy, it is a pity grown people do not oftener remember it and scatter little bits of pleasure before the small people

Young things like you don't need any ornaments but those you wear to-night: youth, health, intelligence, and modesty.

It was all over by nine o'clock and with good night kisses for everyone, the little girls climbed up to bed laden with treasures and too happy for many words. But as they tied their round caps Dolly said, thoughtfully: "On the whole, I think it's rather nice to be poor when people are kind to you.

I don't want a fashionable wedding, but only those about me whom I love, and to them I wish to look and be my familiar self.

The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.

Very little is needed to make a happy life, he said.

Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the meaning of empty. Life was simple. Her husband returned and she served him with indifferent patience this time. When he asked what had happened to her heat for him, she gestured to the west. The sun was setting. The sky was a body of fire.

Since he found numbers so clean and soothing in their simplicity, he applied the business principles of Hewitt and Tuttle to his own personal economy.

For you know me well enough, my good Sir, to be persuaded that I am not guilty of affectation when I tell you it is my great and sole desire to live and die, in peace and retirement, on my own farm.

John D. Rockefeller drew strength by simplifying reality and strongly believed that excessive reflection upon unpleasant but unalterable events only weakened one's resolve in the face of enemies.

It was his own Walden, a place where "fine views invest the soul and where we can live simply and quietly.

Having known many rich people, Gates was impressed that Rockefeller had no private yachts or railroad cars.

He avoided a gaudy residence and had no desire to impress other people.

Waste neither time nor money" was his favorite motto.

I lose all taste for the pursuits of ambition. I sigh for nothing but the company of my wife and my baby.

This is what we want," she said, her voice deepening, the emotion so often controlled fully unbridled now. "To be like this always. No past or future, pure enough to live totally in the present.

If you're explaining, you're losing.

A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

La cotidianeidad tiene estos lazos, el entrañamiento del aire que se respira a dos, del sudor que se mezcla, la ternura animal de lo irremediable.

Felicidad es minimalista. Es sencilla y desnuda. Es una casi nada que lo es todo.