Quotes About Simplicity

I find the ball, and I think, 'Where's the ball going, and where do I need to go?' It just puts me back in the game, and it's the simplest thing, but it's become sort of like my soccer mantra. I simply use the ball as my focus point and move back into position, and the distracting thoughts disappear, and I'm right back in the game.

Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.

I know you're always supposed to want more of everything. But in truth, I'm having a nice ebb and flow of being in my daughter's life every day and getting to keep my work life alive. I'm not nominated for ten thousand everythings every minute, but I am acting and telling stories I love.

Really, there's hardly anything to say about anything. I mean, you could say it all, all that mattered, in a few sentences.

All of us humans are improvising how to live well in the Age of Awakening, ways that are new and simple and sacred.

I like the sun." "Do you really? I didn't think you'd go in for simple things like sun. You're the neon type, aren't you?" "If you say so.

Do you know what I wish at this moment?" she said. "I wish I had no money and no sex. They're both more trouble than they're worth to me.

They were the only kind he ever wore, primarily because they were all exactly alike and when he reached into the sock drawer, he didn't have to worry about whether they matched.

Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.

For most of us, though, the problem is not a lack of goals but rather too many of them.

Now, I must give him credit for this," said Wolfe. "If you ever have a preposterous statement to make… say it in five words or less, because we're always used to five-word sentences as being the gospel truth." The

If you goal is to achieve precision and concision, begin by pruning the big limbs. You can shake out the dead leaves later.

eso es todo, ¡y nada más!»

La elegancia no consiste en el exceso de adornos, ni en la profusión de alhajas.

Alberto Caeiro: "Sejamos simples e calmos como os regatos e as árvores, e Deus amar-nos-á fazendo de nós belos como as árvores e os regatos...". Deus nos amará quando formos como as árvores!

As árvores sabem que a única razão da sua vida é viver. Vivem para viver. Viver é bom. Raízes mergulhadas na terra, não fazem planos de viagem. Estão felizes onde estão. Enfrentam seca e chuva, noite e dia, chuva e calor, com silenciosa tranquilidade, sem acusar, sem lamentar. E morrem também tranquilas, sem medo. Ah! Como as pessoas seriam mais belas e felizes se fossem como as árvores.

Gandhi said, 'There is more to life than speed'. Unfortunately he didn't tell us what, he just left us hanging while he pranced around in his nappy. To

The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.

Death is simple, but my evasions are complex.

Offering of Self to God O Lord, we all have things we need to release. With your help we will lay aside all in life that burdens us, leaving behind those things that do not matter and clinging only to the things that do. Amen.

Even when tied in a thousand knots, the string is still but one.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Take someone who doesn't keep score, who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he's free.