Quotes About Simplicity

Like dropping through a hole in everything that the world said was important….Like discovering that nothing else mattered and all I needed was now….Temporarily removed from the game….Like floating weightless on the Dead Sea and looking up at an empty sky.

Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life. —WU MEN

It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

Affection almost slinks or seeps through our lives. It lives with humble, un-dress, private things: soft slippers, old clothes, old jokes, the thump of a sleepy dog's tail on the kitchen floor, the sound of a sewing machine

Performance is most easily improved not by adding things, but by removing obstacles. Maybe

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated

Roland Oberstein is gelukkig, zou hijzelf verklaren, omdat hij niets wil wat hij niet kan krijgen. Wat hij wil kan hij krijgen. Wat hij niet kan krijgen, wil hij niet. Zo eenvoudig is het recept voor geluk.

Uneven! Easy to say! As if you could always go straight to the point!

Logic always seems to be telling us, in language quite unnecessarily technical, what we understood much better before it was explained.

HLADE'S LAW: If you have a difficult task give it to a lazy man — he will find an easier way to do it.

The Camino is a form of extended walking meditation, a practice in many traditions. "Each mindful breath, each mindful step, reminds us that we are alive on this beautiful planet," explains the Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh.[14] "We don't need anything else. It is wonderful enough just to be alive, to breathe in, and to make one step.

In the words of the Spanish Catholic saint Josemaría Escrivá, "He has most who needs least. Don't create needs for yourself."[19

In the words of the Spanish Catholic saint Josemaría Escrivá, "He has most who needs least. Don't create needs for yourself.

Satisfaction comes not from chasing bigger and bigger things, but paying attention to smaller and smaller things. Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh explains this in his book The Miracle of Mindfulness:

As we age, we shouldn't accumulate more to represent ourselves but rather strip things away to find our true selves

You can say this, too, but you need to start chipping away—managing your worldly wants—before more time passes.

It makes no sense in modern life to use our energies to have five cars, five bathrooms, or even five shirts, but we just . . . want them.

To adopt parts of life that will make you happy, even if they don't make you special.

"Excellent!" I [Watson] cried."Elementary," said he [Holmes].

Why are cancer patients so hard to buy for? This question always puzzles me. When people are healthy, things are so simple, including gift buying. A jaunt to the local mall or a day in front of the TV watching QVC can be just enough for all the loved ones on your list.

A lot of people ask me to produce or direct, but I don't think I'm qualified. It's hard enough for a person to do just one thing well in their life. I don't want to do too much.

I'm a fan of people that have quality, that do what they do, and that are not into the showbiz.