Quotes About Simplicity

And when adulthood fails you, you can still summon the memory of the black swan on the pond of your childhood, the rye bread with peanut butter and bananas your grandmother gave you while the rest of the family slept. There is the voice you can still summon at will, like your mother's, it will always whisper, you can't have it all, but there is this.

I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.

For it is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

Blessed are the idiots, for they are happiest people on earth.

I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and going on about their business.

For every complex problem there is a simple solution. And it's wrong. – Anonymous

If I was a flower growing wild and free All I'd want is you to be my sweet honey bee. And if I was a tree growing tall and greeen All I'd want is you to shade me and be my leaves

I'm no good at the new games because I rarely play them. I like old things. Old books. Old movies. Old TV shows. [...] Life was more complicated, but it was quieter, I bet. Slower. [...] The distractions then were card catalogs and dust and the smell of old paper and ink. The distractions were deep. I wonder what it would be like to go back in time, to live as long ago as the 1980s, or even further back. To know what was to come.

choose less and feel better.

Todas estas universas e infinitas gentes a toto genero crió Dios los más simples, sin maldades ni dobleces, obedientísimas, fidelísimas a sus señores naturales e a los cristianos a quien sirven; más humildes, más pacientes, más pacíficas e quietas, sin rencillas ni bollicios, no rijosos, no querulosos, sin rancores, sin odios, sin desear venganzas, que hay en el mundo. Son

Old dark sleepy pool... Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!

Kareeda ni Karasu no tomarikeri Aki no kure trans: On a bare branch A crow is perched - Autumn evening

For a lovely bowl Let us arrange these flowers... For there is no rice

If I had the knack I'd sing like Cherry flakes falling

Without moving he had glanced down at her head, at the steady rise and fall of her breath. She had a tiny mole on the lobe of her left ear. Did she know it was there? It was a lover's privilege to know another's body almost better than she herself did.

Forse essere a casa è questo, non avere il bisogno e nemmeno la pretesa di vedere tutto bello. Guardare le cose come sono, vederle intere, senza offenderle.

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

I've come to realize ways of making music without being excessive.

I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten.

What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

It's easy to get rid of things when there is an obvious reason for doing so. It's much more difficult when there is no compelling reason.

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.