Quotes About Simplicity

When we look forward to heaven, it shouldn't be material items that draw us, but love, joy, peace, and other intangibles. — Patrick Mitchell —

Giving is sometimes sweeter and purer when no card or signature is included. — Diane Buller —

His love works extraordinarily through the ordinary. — Tracey Dale-Akamine —

The simplest melodies are the hardest to play

You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects.

What's the ONE Thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?

Simple. Keep it simple. I am Brian Robeson. I have been in a plane crash. I am going to find some food. I am going to find some berries. He

Simple. Keep it simple. I am Brian Robeson. I have been in a plane crash. I am going to find some food. I am going to find some berries.

What if we just went home and read books to each other?

True affluence is not needing anything.

When men see Han-shan They all say he's crazy And not much to look at - Dressed in rags and hides. They don't get what I say And I don't talk their language. All I can say to those I meet: Try and make it to Cold Mountain.

I wanted a good place to settle: Cold Mountain would be safe. Light wind in a hidden pine - Listen close - the sound gets better. Under it a gray haired man Mumbles along reading Huang and Lao. For ten years I havn't gone back home I've even forgotten the way by which I came.

White clouds gather and billow. Thin grass does for a mattress, The blue sky makes a good quilt. Happy with a stone underhead Let heaven and earth go about their changes.

What I like most about Buddhism really is its fearlessness. So much of what warps people is fear of death and fear of impermanence. So much of what we do is simply strategies to try and hold back death, trying to buy time with material things. So at its best Buddhism provides people with a way of seeing their own frailty: you need less in the way of material objects and fortresses around yourself.

The truly experienced person, the refined person, delights in the ordinary.

Il galateo del mondo selvatico non richiede solo generosità ma una specie di rude e allegra capacità di tollerare i disagi con buon umore, di comprendere la fragilità di tutti e una certa umiltà.

Una vita dedita alla semplicità, al giusto coraggio, al buon umore, alla gratitudine, al lavoro, al gioco senza riserve e tanto cammino ci portano vicino al mondo effettivamente esistente e alla sua interezza.

I'm sick and tired of having a forest and a torture chamber in my house... I want to have a nice quiet flat with ordinary doors and windows and a wife inside it, like anybody else!

Los trucos más brillantes han sido siempre los más sencillos. Firmin Richard.

Madame, you will have the goodness to tell me where that genius lives. The old lady did not seem surprised at this indiscreet command. She raised her eyes and said: In Heaven! Such simplicity baffled him.

Gurloes was one of the most complex men I have known, because he was a complex man trying to be simple. Not a simple, but a complex man's idea of simplicity.

You must know that for certain simples to attain their highest virtues they must be pulled from grave soil by moonlight.

let me remember to pay attention to the ordinary, not just to the extraordinary.

Sex complicates, but it is the power of love to simplify.