Quotes About Simplicity

She discarded whole chunks of life that obsessed other people. She didn't torture people she loved, nor did she hunger for them. She kept it simple.

maybe happiness didn't have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. maybe its about stringing together a bunch of small pleasures.

Maybe happiness didn't have to be about big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was about stringing together a bunch of small pleasures.

There are two kinds of people in the world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and the kind who don't.

Vera thought for a moment that she might have found a man if she'd scrubbed up a bit better, then decided that no man was worth the time it took to plaster stuff on your face in the morning, when you could have an extra cup of tea instead.

Become a minimalist. Eliminate clutter from your life by living with the 100 things that you wear and use the most.

We spend our lives telling ourselves the story of past and future, while the reality of the present goes largely unexplored. Now we live in ignorance of the freedom and simplicity of consciousness, prior to the arising of thought.

Honesty is a gift we can give to others. It is also a source of power and an engine of simplicity. Knowing that we will attempt to tell the truth, whatever the circumstances, leaves us with little to prepare for. Knowing that we told the truth in the past leaves us with nothing to keep track of. We can simply be ourselves in every moment. In

How much I'd always envied the tight life of voles. The hidey hole was happiness.

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

Angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

When a king asked Euclid, the mathematician, whether he could not explain his art to him in a more compendious manner? he was answered, that there was no royal way to geometry.

There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets.

I was not born for courts or great affairs;I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers.Pope.

And this is LOVE, is it? that puts an honest girl upon approving of such tricks? — Begone, Love! I  banish thee if thou wouldst corrupt the simplicity of that heart, which was taught to glory in truth.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Not everyone is meant to change the world. We let the world change around us. We let it die if it will. We live small lives, constrained by habit and fear.

Nada más fácil para el ser humano que prescindir de lo que no es natural en él

And I'll dream about living there one day myself, about boats and bicycles and water, and a dog running next to me on the road, in the green, green afternoon light.

You don't have to make things harder then they have to be just to prove a point.

He had a nice smile. Seeing it, I felt like I'd won a prize, because he was so sparing with them.

Sometimes, fewer choices can be a good thing.

Conciseness is underrated