Quotes About Simplicity

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Contented poverty is an honorable estate.

I am grateful to blessed Nature, because she made what is necessary easy to acquire and what is hard to acquire unnecessary.

Live in obscurity--lathe bi?sas (???? ??????)

If you want to make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

?yj?c o chlebie i wodzie, przyjemno?ci cia?a wywo?uj? we mnie groz?, gardz? luksusowymi rozkoszami, nie ze wzgl?du na nie, ale na niewygody z nimi zwi?zane.

One who understands the limits of the good life knows that what eliminates the pains brought on by need and what makes the whole of life perfect is easily obtained, so that there is no need for enterprises that entail the struggle for success.19

If you want to make someone happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Si quieres ser feliz, vive oculto

Nature's wealth is limited and easy to acquire; but the wealth of vain fancies recedes to an infinite distance.

If you take away the big words and the solemn face, there is still plenty left, so there is no need to be scared.

In the wilderness, life is reduced to its essentials: food, shelter, water. A person can lose himself here, both figuratively and literally. With very little effort, one can escape almost everything and everyone associated with civilization.

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it." Randy not only saw beauty in the smallest things, but also was captivated by their smallest details. He decided to spend the following summer in the high country. He wanted to put his life on his back, not unlike John Muir, and hike the crest of the Sierra without a schedule. Unhurried. Unhindered.

I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib.

I have a car but it's not important.

Untamed, the mind is your greatest enemy: crippled by self-doubt, beset by irrational fears, and divided by its own conflicting desires. In meditation you will find the inner peace that alone can give you clarity, simplicity, and happiness.

I don't want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don't want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis.

Diagrams are a means of communication and explanation, and they facilitate brainstorming. They serve these ends best if they are minimal.

When you design, solve things in the simplest way possible. Your goal should be simplicity, not 'How can I apply a pattern to this problem.

Surely the principles as well as the practice of Christianity are simple and lead not to meditation only, but to action.

As you consider building your own minimum viable product, let this simple rule suffice: remove any feature, process, or effort that does not contribute directly to the learning you seek.

When in doubt, simplify.

The lesson of the MVP is that any additional work beyond what was required to start learning is waste, no matter how important it might have seemed at the time.