Quotes About Simplicity

As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness-- the repetitious plucking of a single overwound string.

Kesän sinisinä iltoina kulkisin polkuja, vehnän raapimana, tallaisin hentoa ruohoa; mietteissäni tuntisin tuoreuden jaloissani. Antaisin tuulen huuhtoa hiuksiani. En puhuisi, en ajattelisi mitään: mutta loputon rakkaus kohoaisi sydämeeni, ja menisin kauas, kovin kauas niinkuin mustalainen, luontoon - onnellisena, kuin naisen kanssa.

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it gets unobstructed hold of the hearerÂ's mind without his being distracted by secondary thoughts, and partly because he feels that here he is not being corrupted or deceived by the arts of rhetoric, but that the whole effect is got from the thing itself.

One should use common words to say uncommon things

The simpler elements of the scientific world have no immediate counterparts in everyday experience; we use them to build things which have counterparts.

Anyone could live this life, he reflected, provided they had the sense to give up the other way of life.

Non mi costringete a marciare con stivali di ferro o scarpe chiodate. Gli scalzi procedon più lontano se così l'erba vuole e un albero di cinque anni ancora si può portare sulle braccia come un bimbo.

The sea was cruel and selfish as human beings, and in its monstrous simplicity had no notion of complexities like pity, wounding, or remorse... You could see yourself in it... while the wind, the light, the swaying, the sound of the water on the hull worked the miracle of distancing, calming you until you didn't hurt anymore, erasing any pity, any wound, and any remorse.

En la vida lo malo no es conocer, sino mostrar que se conoce. Tan peligroso resulta ser poco discreto revelando que uno sabe de más, como caer en la simpleza de saber de menos. Siempre es bueno prevenir la música antes de que empiece el baile.

Para Falcó, el mundo era un lugar sencillo: un equilibrio natural de adrenalina, riesgos, fracasos y victorias. Una larga y excitante pelea. Una breve aventura entre dos noches eternas.

Se asumen, se cumplen, y punto... Sin grandes gestos. Sin dramatismos.

Percibí en su voz un tono que ya conocía bien: resignación y ausencia de ilusiones sobre el éxito o fracaso de la empresa; resolución fatigada, silenciosa, desprovista de interés salvo por los detalles técnicos, del soldado veterano dispuesto a afrontar con sencillez un mal rato que forma parte de su oficio.

Eran hombres cuyo valor tranquilo procedía de mentes sencillas: resignados ante el azar, fatalistas sobre la vida y la muerte, obedecían de modo natural sin que la imaginación les jugara malas pasadas. Eran guerreros natos. Soldados perfectos.

To derive joy from simple things; to derive joy from beautiful, giving persons; to give back, indeed to give away; to be thankful, as we are so often told we must be, for small mercies.

Living only for the moment, turning our full attention to the pleasures of the moon, the snow, the cherry blossoms and the maples, singing songs, drinking wine and diverting ourselves in just floating, floating; caring not a whit for the poverty staring us in the face, refusing to be disheartened, like a gourd floating along with the river current: this is what we call ukiyo.

One cannot both feast and become rich.

I live a dual life. On the red carpet, it's complete glam. But at home, I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. Simple can be beautiful.

The oceans and the skies…and the sun coming up each new day. That's all there is, I think. That's all that matters to think on.

In the deep sauté, she has made a stew: eggplant and tomatoes, onions and summer squash, a sort of ratatouille, tiella, samfina, pisto , there are as many names for it as countries, and she has stopped caring for all the names of things. She has made stew, and there are ripe peaches and cream for dessert, a few bottles of wine to choose from.

My first interview was with eighty-eight-year-old folk artist Marcia Muth… 'Your life does change as you get older,' she told me. 'You get into what's important and what's not'.

For me, little things matter.

I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by abscence?

Children accept many things adults will not accept, since the world of a child is a constant revelation without any need for knowledge of cause and effect. ("Miss Esperson")