Quotes About Simplicity

Many of the old understandings to which I had been addicted were stripped away, leaving a desertlike spaciousness where my customary props and securities no longer existed. Grace was able to flow into this emptiness, and something new was able to grow. Fresh understandings took root, and the insights that emerged were clearer, simpler, and more beautiful.

Imagine a world, in which your entire possession is one raspberry, and you give it to your friend.

Children, as persons, are entitled to the greatest respect. Children are given to us as free-flying souls, but then we clip their wings like we domesticate the wild mallard. Children should become the role-models for us, their parents, for they are coated with the spirit from which they came- out of the ether, clean, innocent, brimming with the delight of life, aware of the beauty of the simplest thing; a snail, a bud....

There is a certain fine simplicity in a landscape from which the element of water, with all the varied life it brings in it murmuring train, is entirely absent.

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She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.

When I worked in the city, it was about survival. Now when I work in the countryside, I feel like I'm truly living.

King Charles, who was also the Holy Roman Emperor, lived and worked in hard bare rooms with no carpets, crowding to the fire in winter, using the window's sunshine in summer.

I'm very happy in my 18th century worker's cottage in Kent and playing my music for the dog-walkers paused outside.

My plays have been performed before children, workers, and peasants, and they have well understood the meaning of my theatre. What is needed for people to watch my theatre is a freshness and openness of mind.

My parents were very well-off, but we didn't have a crazy-huge house. We didn't have thousands of workers and staff; it was just my mum doing the majority of the housework. We didn't have nannies. I wasn't brought up in any sort of extravagant way.

Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.

You learn to give up what's not working and surround yourself with things you love - not what's correct or proper.

I'm used to working with the director and producer, and that's my relationship. It's very simple.

It was a matter of not living lavishly but enjoying what you had, growing things with your hands, working hard, but not being tied to a nine-to-five job, and generally feeling that there's more to life than money.

Growing up in Ridgeville, South Carolina, pretty much all I saw was people working hard.

I have stopped having goals. If you have many goals, and you don't reach your goals, it is very upsetting, so I just think of keeping it simple, working hard and going and playing the game. But I know there are going to be very important series for Indian cricket. I will just try my best to be in my fittest form.

It was really good working with Paresh Rawal. I was nervous at first because he is such a big star and I love his performances, but the initial nervousness went away once I got to know him. He is a very simple and hardworking man.

I don't bother with gyms, I just workout where I happen to be whether it's in the garden or at home.

Sometimes less is more when it comes to workout routines.

I like to have a simple workplace.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works.

There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is.