Quotes About Simplicity

Quando vedono troppe cose, gli esseri umani diventano stranamente tristi.

The only thing to do was to work steadily, humbly, and carefully, without trying to complicate things or make them other than what they were.

As well as the way he always said Itadakimasu, quietly, before he started eating.

That must be nice, I thought, to be able to be so carefree with the love you have.

Que maravilla! Me basta con que él esté a mi lado; no necesito que sea mío. Todo el mundo disfruta recostándose bajo los grandes árboles que crecen en el parque, y pese a todo, esos árboles no pertenecen a nadie.

Ghar ki murg; dal barabar.

I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.

The last thing any of us needs is more information *about* God.

The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction," wrote the fourteenth-century mystic Meister Eckhart.

She described a little town in Maine, not much more than a handful of stores backed up to the shore of a lake. There were huge pine forests, long dirt roads leading to cabins in the woods, and skies so clear you could see the northern lights. She said she would live in one of those cabins and know everyone in town. She thought it would be the simplest, most beautiful life.

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It's better to live with a few things than with those that don't express your taste or that deliver outdated, inappropriate or even bitter memories that you should leave behind.

When the Little Prince asks the Fox how they can become friends he says if they sit in silence at opposite ends of a field every day, after a long time they will be friends.

However, her own lack of power had taught her a curious appreciation for small joys and hard beauties and for the simple, changeless patterns of life and death.

Clutter is postponed decisions.

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.

The best text slides convey their message as starkly and simply as possible. They do not waste words (or slides) on transitional or introductory points, which can and should be stated orally. This means of course that the slides by themselves will not be intelligible as a handout to someone who has not attended the presentation.

I wish I could've saved that moment there in that weed-filled yard surrounded by those good-hearted Odoms, with Wishbone sitting there on the cooler in front of us. Just pack it into one of Bertha's canning jars to keep in my room. Then when I was feeling bad about myself or loaded down with all my troubles, I could open it up and breathe in the goodness of it and I'd feel better.

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

If it is true that men only want one thing, Jane asked herself, is it perhaps just to be left to themselves with their soap animals or some other harmless little trifle?

If only one could clear out one's mind and heart as ruthlessly as one did one's wardrobe...

I sat down at the table without any very high hopes, for both Julian and Winifred, as is often the way with good, unworldly people, hardly noticed what they ate or drank, so that a meal with them was a doubtful pleasure.