Quotes About Simplicity

SO MUCH (INSPIRED BY MR. WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS) BY JACK So much depends upon a black kitten dotted with white beside a photo of my yellow dog

The poet Rumi says: How long will we fill our pockets like children with dirt and stones? Let the world go. Holding it, we never know ourselves, never are airborne.

We have one impermanent experience, and, unable to be at peace as it passes, we reach out and grab for another, The Tibetan Buddhist tradition defines renunciation as accepting what comes into our lives and letting go of what leaves our lives. To renounce in this sense is to come to a state of simple being.

Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, A cool breeze in summer, snow in winter— If your mind is not clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life.

if we really look at our actions with eyes of love, we see that our lives can be more straightforward, simpler, less sculpted by regret and fear, more in alignment with our deepest values.

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes

Michelangelo was once asked how he would carve an elephant. He replied, "I would take a large piece of stone and take away everything that was not the elephant.

Talk to God. He loves you so much. Don't think you have to use fancy words. He's your papa, just talk.

We don't need your pity. We get along just fine without it and them other things too. You don't need electronic crap to live. You know, people lived for thousands of years without it. There's a big difference between stuff you want and stuff you need. (Nick)

Why can't you ever answer a simple question? (Wulf) Ask me a simple question and you will get a simple answer. (Acheron)

For the first time in his life, he truly understood love. It wasn't just an intangible emotion, it was when his own happiness was found by making her happy. It wasn't something found in a grandiose gesture. I was found in the simplest form. A single smile that made a cold-blooded assassin weak in the knees.

Even the most simple thing such as looking up the sky could bring comfort to you, even when the one you loved was far away.

The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.

Focusing on values does not simplify your life. It gives meaning and direction-and a lot more complexity.

In my entire life I never set out to do anything ground-breaking or pioneering, and I'm not going to start anytime soon.

As you focus on simplifying your life, make sure that your approach to the process is a loving and accepting one. Know that you are doing all that you can do right now, and that is all anyone can do.

I live a sensible life. You know, I don't take on too much.

When it is possible, I choose to have a quiet life.

I don't have a publicist, I don't go to events, I don't do magazines, and it's just not my life.

Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.

You can have information or you can have a life, but you can't have both.

To me, voluntary simplicity means integration and awareness in my life.

I've lived a slower and less expensive life going off the grid, and I'm happier because of it.

I lead a very busy life and don't have a lot of time, so my skincare needs to be easy and portable.