Quotes About Simplicity

people don't have to explain things nearly as much as you think they do.

My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance.

Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. I know that for a fact.

On the wall was a dress that I embroidered. It said Ich Habe Genug. Which is a Bach Cantata. Which I once thought meant I've had it, I can't take anymore, give me a break. But I was wrong. It means I have enough. And that is utterly true. I happen to be alive. End of discussion. But I will go out and buy a hat.

There is no reason to save tickets and stubs. They are tiny and inconsequential. But I do save them and remember that number twenty-three was from the coat check at the restaurant where I ate the lemon tart. The number is so elegant and honest. And the lemon tart was so good.

You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can't understand it.

We have, in short, somehow become convinced that we need to tackle the whole problem, all at once. But the truth is that we don't. We only need to find the stickiness Tipping Points

the simplest way that respect is communicated is through tone of voice

n good decision making, frugality matters; take a complex problem and reduce it to its simplest elements.

The plan was okay—basically okay—but here we are trying to find something to win the war the easy way, and there ain't no such animal.

I'm satisfied to have an ordinary success and an ordinary life and an ordinary income. Later, I don't know.

Don't interpret anything too much. This is time waster number 1.

There is no secret ingredient

To soar, we must leave anything that weighs us down...

Transforming the complex to the simple is pure genius.

Overthinking, also, best known as creating problems that are never there

Declutter your life from the burden of all that stands between you and your dreams.

It's easier done than said!

Every penny that has always been earned with integrity by a person to lead life with a real simplicity has only perhaps helped to serve Almighty & protect and preserve humanity in the society.

Life is simple but if you don't put anything into it, you won't get anything out of it.

Society judges people by their successes. I get attracted by their dedication, simplicity, and humility.

The journey of growth, search for the secret has always been within, the simpler we make it, the better it gets.

There are many reasons to be simple. It's simply to learn effectively, to work positively, to communicate actively and to live successfully.

It's not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less.