Quotes About Simplicity

We ain't got a lot, but we don't need anything. Covered in kisses, surrounded by love, showered with blessings from up above.

I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.

Take all away. I am content to know Such love is mine-for life is all too brief To grieve for pleasures bringing only grief; Give me but You; it is enough just so.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

If you have your health, if you have people in your life to love, you are blessed. Slow down and enjoy the simple things in life.

Love...doesn't need a complicated metaphor And sometimes nothing needs to be said at all

My inspiration is always love and history, and my passion to a fault is craftsmanship and responsibility. Those are the simplest things. It goes beyond jewelry. It's every part of my life.

Of all the follies the greatest is to love the world.

The heart of the path is quite easy. There's no need to explain anything at length. Let go of love and hate and let things be. That's all that I do in my own practice.

When you love something, whether it's jam and cheese sandwiches or wearing your pyjamas as pants, you forget that it was ever anything other than commonplace.

I don't approve of open fires. You can't think, or talk or even make love in front of a fireplace. All you can do is stare at it.

The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.

Love is so simple. [Fr., C'est tellement simple, l'amour.]

Love is lost in immensities; it comes in simple, gentle ways.

As I've grown older, the simple pleasure of sitting on the couch with someone you love and watching a documentary is about as good as it gets for me.

Modesty and dew love the shade.

It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built.

Love a single an additional and you will be satisfied. It really is as easy and as challenging as that.

It is our fall from a simplicity and fullness of life directly experienced, from the sensuous moment of knowing, which leaves a gap that the symbolic can never bridge.

Luis Barragan: simple, geometric, rectangular forms, walls with bright colours, shafts of light. Tadao Ando: natural light and contexts, zen-like experiences. Friedensreich Hundertwasser: human, in harmony with nature. Rafael Moneo: simple geometric massing, masonry. Glenn Murcutt: minimalist, vernacular. Kengo Kuma: traditional aesthetics, natural materials.

What if I like watching television? What if I don't want to do much else other than read a book?... What if I'm tired when I get home? What if I don't fill my days with frenetic activity?" "But one day you might wish you had

And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.

I had never had to consider what I said; talking to him was as effortless as breathing.