Quotes About Simplicity

I cannot help but see the void in which I am standing as a metaphor for emptiness: the absence of compulsive reactivity, a precondition for the unimpeded space of paths that allow human flourishing. The unadorned simplicity of this rock-cut shrine evokes the Buddha's dharma before it mutated into dogma. This is nirvana inscribed in stone. Until the idea of emptiness was hijacked by metaphysicians, it was just another way of talking about solitude.

A lack of being remains unaffected by a plenitude of having.

There is nothing one can have that one cannot fear to lose. Instead of living life in order to have more abundantly, live life in order to be more abundantly.

ten thousand years ago every human on the planet lived much as the Na'vi do, by hunting, fishing, and harvesting the fruits of the great wildwoods

After the emergence of intelligence, the story of any biosphere tended to get a lot simpler. It was a major reason for the silence of the stars.

There is grandeur in this view of life . . . that . . . from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.

It's much easier not to know things sometimes.

And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.

It's much easier not to know things sometimes.

I just listened to the music, and breathed in the day, and remembered things. Things like walking around the neighborhood and looking at the houses and the lawns and the colorful trees and having that be enough.

What's the point of using words nobody knows or can say comfortably?

It's much easier not to know things sometimes. And to have french fries with your mom be enough.

We were just there together. And that was enough.

That was the amazing part. Things just keep going. We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough.

But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.

There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I though that some days those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.

It's much easier not to know things sometimes and to have french fries with your mom be enough.

My mom told me that when I was little, I called them "Candy Grandma" and "Cookies Grandma." I also called pizza crust "pizza bones." I don't know why I'm telling you this.

A veces es mucho más fácil no saber las cosas y que tomar patatas fritas con tu madre sea suficiente para ti.

Things like waking around the neighbourhood and looking at the houses and the lawns and the colourful trees and having that be enough.

Fill in the blanks, you'd have a novel; keep it short and it's a play by Beckett.

The good poem simultaneously reveals and conceals. It is in this sense that it is mysterious. The not so good poem is often mysterious only by virtue of its concealment. Or it wears exotic clothing to hide its essential plainness.

I know," said Helen. "Like all sacred and truly precious objects it is very plain. Only profane things are beautiful.