Quotes About Simplicity

Once a problem is solved, its simplicity is amazing.

Married life is a simpler life. Who I spend my time with is established in advance.

In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates.

Creating breathing room financially may lower your standard of living but raise your quality of life.

I do disapprove of the modern attitude that you can't do the simplest thing, like dying or being born, in your own house.

Living simply means concentrating on what's important in light of eternity. And not taking the rest of life too seriously.

The secret of the truly successful ... is that they learned early in life how not to be busy.

Happy is the person who has learned the secret of being content with whatever life brings him, and has learned to rejoice in the simple and beautiful things around him.

When in doubt, do without.

You try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end all you have left is yourself.

Battle with unconditioned breath the unconditioned air. Shun electric wire. Communicate slowly. Live a three-dimensional life; stay away from screens.

The little things in life are the happiest

The Lord's way is not hard. Life is hard, not the gospel.

Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughsAbout the lilting house and happy as the grass was green.

Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies.

I hate the guts of English grammar. … The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity…. You can say anything that comes into your head; never forget that.

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered

If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces.

Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than chocolate. In a profound, symbolic gesture, I am giving you this bar of Vosges I got when we all went to Edgartown. You can eat it, or just sit next to it and feel superior.

We tossed stones into the water. We just existed.

Mirren took off her shoes and the rest of us followed. We tossed stones into the water. We just existed.

If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces. (p. 106)