Quotes About Simplicity

Getting rid of the clutter is not about letting go of things that are meaningful to you. It's about letting go of the things that no longer contribute to your life so you have the time and the energy and the space for the things that do.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.

A rich man, it is said, is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.

Maybe I should tell her that things without a meaning are the most beautiful ones

Children don't know the meaning of yesterday, of the day before yesterday, or even of tomorrow, everything is this, now: the street is this, the doorway is this, the stairs are this, this is Mamma, this is Papa, this is the day, this the night. I was small and really my doll knew more than I did.

Belki de gerçeÄŸi söylersek her ÅŸey daha az karma??k olur.

in reality it was much simpler. For at least ten years the God of childhood, already fairly weak, had been pushed aside like an old sick person, and I felt no need for the sanctity of marriage. The

Ich bin, was ich bin, und ich kann nichts anderes tun als mich akzeptieren; ich bin so geboren, in dieser Stadt, mit diesem Dialekt, ohne Geld; ich werde geben, was ich geben kann, werde mir nehmen, was ich nehmen kann, werde ertragen, was ertragen werden muss.

Deja que nos hagamos ricos sin complicarnos la vida, que ya de por sí es bastante complicada.

you will see . . . Gauguin and Bernard talk now of 'painting like children' – I would rather have that than 'painting like decadents'.

simple people. . . . listen to music with their hearts and enjoy it more than those who are spoiled, jaded, blase.

People's fates are simplified by their names.

In America, childhood was a time to play and be innocent, to not have to make money or do anything that counted for anything.

Those who do not preach life but live it do not smile to the lily near the bank; they look for stones and hang on.

Atheists believe simplicity is a virtue when it is precisely this that weighs so heavily on their souls.

There are but two states to the primitive mind: warring and boring.

The less you know, the better you sleep.

They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

Airy elaboration just loses everyone in a fog of words.

I have enough to eat till my hunger is stayed, to drink till my thirst is sated; to clothe myself withal; and out of doors not Callias there, with all his riches, is more safe than I from shivering; and when I find myself indoors, what warmer shirting do I need than my bare walls? what ampler greatcoat than the tiles above my head?