Quotes About Simplicity

Make it a simple formula for your life.

Believer me, life can be much simpler. And you'll discover an energy for the things in life that really matter.

When life gets too cluttered, we neglect the important things.

It's the little details in life that make all the difference.

Take a little time to make ordinary things extraordinary.

Plan your action, keep it simple, and get into motion.

You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself that my father bought me. They are better than human beings, because they know but do not tell.

How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And doesn't care about careers, And exigencies never fears; Whose coat of elemental brown A passing universe put on; And independent as the sun, Associates or glows alone, Fulfilling absolute decree In casual simplicity.

I am glad you love the Blossoms so well. I hope you love Birds too. It is economical. It saves going to Heaven.

My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love.

We are not now concerned with perfection or excellence; we seek only for simple fitness and bare competency.

Nothing is difficult in this world unless we don't make it difficult.

Then she laughed out loud and hugged him tight with both arms. She smelled like pine trees and lichens and hot sand. How odd, thought Roger, that after all, this is what it took - not a flock of scarlet ibises or golden-crowned kinglets, but just the names of chicken, hovering in the air like the sulpher butterflies at the dump.

Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.

Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford.

Though the great things of life are simple to understand and easy to express, the littlenesses require a vast number of details to explain them.

A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless, she shrouds herself in veil after veil, she satisfies every demand of man's vanity, the novice responds but to one.

È meglio godere della ricchezza dei sentimenti che del lusso dei vestiti. Non temo io, no davvero, il disprezzo di nessuno.

It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.

You have the nicest window, you know? None of the others can even compete. It´s not flashy like the others, or bleary – your window gives of this nice, quiet light.

I felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself.

Non c'è posto al mondo che io ami più della cucina. Non importa dove si trova, com'è fatta: purchè sia una cucina, un posto dove si fa da mangiare, io sto bene. Se possibile le preferisco funzionali e vissute. Magari con tantissimi strofinacci asciutti e puliti e le piastrelle bianche che scintillano. Anche le cucine incredibilmente sporche mi piacciono da morire.

Risate fatte di niente e divise con qualcuno.

There's nothing as senseless as being harried at a simple do-what's-needed part-time job.