Quotes About Simplicity

The more you know, the less you need to show.

Nihil nimis [Nothing in excess].

Curlylocks, Curlylocks,Wilt thou be mine?Thou shalt not wash dishesNor yet feed the swine,But sit on a cushionAnd sew a fine seam,And feed upon strawberries,Sugar and cream.

Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.

The great gift of the southern lands to our civilisation is the simple right to sit at an outside cafe table and look at things.

You want the little things that society has falsely taught you are essential for happiness. You want that.

You don't have to do anything to acquire happiness. The great Meister Eckhart said very beautifully, "God is not attained by a process of addition to anything in the soul, but by a process of subtraction." You don't do anything to be free, you drop something. Then you're free.

In order to be genuinely happy there is one and only one thing you need to do: get deprogrammed, get rid of those attachments.

Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.

If you just enjoy things, refusing to let yourself be attached to them, that is, refusing to hold the false belief that you will not be happy without them, you are spared all the struggle and emotional strain of protecting them and guarding them for yourself.

En adelante, podrás ir pasando de un momento a otro de la vida plenamente absorto en el presente, llevando contigo tan poca carga del pasado que tu espíritu podría pasar a través del ojo de una aguja; tan escasamente afectado por la preocupación acerca del futuro como las aves del cielo y los lirios del campo. Ya no estarás apegado a ninguna persona o cosa, porque habrás desarrollado el gusto por la sinfonía de la vida.

In a child's cursive, beneath the crossed-out lines, Aethon's new line is handwritten in the margin, "The world as it is is enough.

I," she says, "am Aethon, a simple shepherd from Arkadia, and—

GUARDIAN #2: Though it will seem simple at first, it's actually quite complicated. GUARDIAN #1: No, no, it will seem complicated at first, but it's actually quite simple. GUARDIAN #2: Ready, little crow? Here's our riddle. "He that knows all that Learning ever writ, knows only this.

Though it will seem simple at first, it's actually quite complicated. No, no, it will seem complicated at first, but it's actually quite simple.

What do I care, she whispers, for cities and princes and histories?

For the first time in human history, most people are doing things that could never interest a child enough to want to tag along. That says less about the child than about us.

His biographer, Cornelius Nepos, a younger contemporary whom he knew personally, wrote that Atticus "behaved so as to seem at one with the poorest and on a level with the powerful.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

I want to be buried in a cardboard coffin.

There were even proper cloth serviettes in metal rings. Who does that anymore? What's wrong with a square of kitchen roll?

How innocent, how happy, how truly delightful, even, would life be if we were to desire nothing but what is to be found upon the face of the earth: in a word, nothing but what is provided ready to our hands!

A simple story filmed with limited sets can often be more effective than a costly extravaganza. provided it had depth and allows the audience to identify with the character.

I like the freedom boxing has provided me, and I like to have people who I can trust around me. There's no need to make it complex when it's no longer simple.