Quotes About Simplicity

As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness-- the repetitious plucking of a single overwound string.

If you lead a simple life, and that story is written, then that story will not satisfy. It needs an angle. Suppose there is no angle?

I don't want to think my life as a career.

To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.

The awesome part about The Book of Awesome is the realization that if you enjoy the simple moments in your life, you will be happier.

What we need of equipment is this: let it possess as good a structure as the real-life content that surrounds us. We need more simplifications to free us for seeing.

Gammy used to say, 'Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things.'

How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's tombstone: a name, two dates.

I'm inspired by how miraculous some of the simplest and most natural aspects of life can be the greatest sources of healing and transformation.

I don't need that much to live - we don't need that much to have a wonderful life. I learned that from animals.

Life is full of risks. Death is much simpler.

Day-to-day life is as simple as it is routine - though my days are often long and very busy.

I just want a quiet life. I think that's what everybody says when they get older.

The complexities of life situations are really not as complicated as we tend to experience them.

That God is very remote indeed from the things of our experience is nowhere clearer than in Aquinas's account of divine simplicity, which is perhaps the most controversial aspect of his teaching on the divine attributes. For Aquinas, God is "simple" in the sense of being in no way composed of parts (ST I.3).

attributes. For Aquinas, God is "simple" in the sense of being in no way composed of parts (ST I.3).

A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and ThouBeside me singing in the Wilderness—Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing—detachment. —MEISTER ECKHART

Ploffskin, Pluffskin, Pelican jee! We think no Birds so happy as we! Plumpskin, Ploshkin, Pelican jill! We think so then, and we thought so still!

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used Occam's razor—the principle that given more than one explanation, you should begin by choosing the simplest one—and plausible reasoning to arrive at a neat formula for determining the "correct" price of a warrant.

And as to the wonders of modern technology, bear in mind that a sidewalk weed and a protozoan are each more complex than any device yet invented by humanity.