Quotes About Simplicity

If you overspiritualize prayer, you are in danger of not doing it. Remember, prayer is simply talking to God, worshipping and praising Him, and being thankful at all times.

If you have wondered how to have peace, I can tell you that it will come if you will quit making a big deal about everything.

Consider the lilies of the field and learn thoroughly how they grow; they neither toil nor spin. Yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his magnificence (excellence, dignity, and grace) was not arrayed

Ni siquiera la lluvia baila tan descalza.

Jerry: If you always want less, in words as well as things, you'll do well as a writer.

The best actors are children and dogs because they're not acting at all." — Helen Mirren

Sometimes she wished she were a little kid again. Everything was so simple then. Now she never knew when she was going to find out something terrible, something she didn't want to know. Sometimes her jaw ached in the morning. She wondered if Princess Elizabeth's jaw ever ached.

It's easy to be clever. But the really clever thing is to be simple.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

It is one of the gifts of great spiritual teachers to make things simple. It is one of the gifts of their followers to complicate them again. Often we need to scrape away the accumulated complications of a master's message in order to hear the kernel of what they said. (24)

Hard writing makes easy reading.

To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.

Mailbox scenes are the dramatic moments of our undramatic life.

When she stopped short just at the lower line of the apple tress, and stood for a moment with her face lifted, I chalked one up in her favor. I had stopped my chair at the exact place, coming out, because right there the spice of wisteria that hung around the house was invaded by the freshness of apple blossoms in a blend that lifted the top of my head. As between those who notice such things and those who don't, I prefer those who do.

After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things.... It is difficult even to choose the adjective For this blank cold, this sadness without cause...

After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir.

People should like poetry the way a child likes snow, and they would if poets wrote it.

You must become an ignorant man again And see the sun again with an ignorant eye And see it clearly in the idea of it.

In my room, the world is beyond my understanding; But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four hills and a cloud.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

You must not know too much, or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and water-craft; a certain free margin, and even vagueness—perhaps ignorance, credulity—helps your enjoyment of these things, and of the sentiment of feather'd, wooded, river, or marine Nature generally.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.