Quotes About Simplicity

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.

As long as there are beginning-English students and a lake and I can see a mountain, I will be perfectly happy," she said, reminding me of how my grandfather used to say he was a simple man with simple tastes: "All I need is a little milk from a goat that has been fed for a month on wild green pears.

Why was "plain" a euphemism for "ugly," when the very hallmark of human beauty was its plainness, the symmetry and simplicity that always seemed so young and so innocent. It was impossible not to think that here beauty was one of the most important things about her - something having to do with who she really was.

Don't think. Smell the flowers.

If you would keep your soulFrom spotted sight or sound,Live like the velvet mole;Go burrow underground.And there hold intercourseWith roots of trees and stones,With rivers at their source,And disembodied bones.

We can discover such civilized eating again

Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

I'm not greedy. I just want one person. The world is so big and there are so many people. But I only want one.

I think you're really nice" "I'm nothing special." it's not a lament. More a statement.

The more complicated the situation seems to be, the simpler solution must be. .. People believe that reality is complex, and therefore they are looking for sophisticated explanations for complicated solutions. .. Reality it is actually simple.

I go to taste simplicity. Not the simplicity of a golden age; but the simplicity of gold and tinsel.

Ah, we were blest in Arcady! Our hearts were innocent and free, We had no word for doubt or fear, We knew no sorrow and no tear, We felt no heart-ache and no pang, But lived and loved and laughed and sang-- Nor dreamed that heaven could happier be Than our glad life in Arcady!

Once I longed for Wealth and Place, Happiness and Love's sweet grace-- Now there lives within my breast Only this one wish--for Rest.

Live simply that others might simply live.

Do some little, special thing for yourself each day. Put a candle on the table, set out a bowl of fruit, put a flower by your sink, look at the stars, take a walk, and so on.

It is pleasant even to look back on it. We were obliged to look narrowly at the economies, more narrowly than usual; but the cheapness of the place suited the occasion, and the little villa, like a mere tent among the vines, charmed us, though the doors didn't shut, and though (on account of the smallness) Robert and I had to whisper all our talk whenever Wiedeman was asleep.

The older he got, the simpler the world was revealed to be.

It might lack of warmth, confort, and sartorial splendor, but Kit was happy simply to be clothed.

Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty.

For God's sake, is there no plain man?

It was the simplest thing to do, loving someone, only it was the hardest thing, too, because it hurt.

I often ask the question: Is it impossible to have a simple life? The world is not simple, Claire said. The world is not simple. Joe repeated the phrase like the line of a great poem.

She is not wealthy in the way that Sir Bertram understands wealth, but she is not poor, and she has things that you used to have here in England, but do not have any more: loyal retainers, dependents, whole families living on her bounty, families whose every member she knows and cares for. Her life is simple, her house, compared with this, is shabby, but in her own domain she is what I called her - a queen.

Not all that is plain is dross