Quotes About Simplicity

I love white T-shirts as much as I love black. I often wear total black. It's my favourite.

Hef is boring to cook for. He likes a total of four main dishes: fried chicken, pot roast, pork roast and pork chop sandwich!

I'm a total technophobe. What is wrong with paper and pen? I was delighted when I learnt the word 'Luddite,' as I thought it described me perfectly.

I'm really an outdoorsy girl. People think I can't go anywhere without getting all primped up, but I love to go camping, and I'm totally fine with not doing my hair or makeup, not taking a shower and just hiking.

It just doesn't get any more stripped down than going out totally alone and doing songs.

I am totally unattached to material items.

My first big break came when I was five years old. It's taken me more than seventy years to realise that. You see, at five I first learnt to read. It's that simple and it's that profound.

I believe in faith, family and country. I really keep it that simple.

Sometimes you have to take a break from being a crazy kid. You can't be doing that all the time. Sometimes you just have to pay respect to your own simple-ness.

I tend to go for women with common sense. Being down to earth stands out more than looks.

The music of birds. I guess everything comes from that, the dances of simple country folk, the old songs that both cure and trouble the hearts of listeners.

There are moments when I am pierced through by an inexplicable joy, as if, in having nothing, I have the world.

Things That Give a Clean Feeling An earthen cup. A new metal bowl. A rush mat. The play of the light on water as one pours it into a vessel. A new wooden chest.

Being cool, having a 'cool' energy is just not attractive to me.

If you have one teapot And can brew your tea in it That will do quite well. How much does he lack himself Who must have a lot of things?

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.

I get the same buzz cleaning up the yard as Leo Tolstoy did from scything hay.

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

Zen means putting it all down, cutting off all thinking, and returning to your pure and clear original nature.

Si mantienes tu mente despejada, encontrarás felicidad en todas partes. Es la paz completa, como la mente de un niño, que no se apega a nada.

It couldn't be an all-bad world, could it, not with birds who warble and call? Maybe that was the secret - to find the few things that made life just a fraction better, and to focus on those. Bird warbles. Peach fuzz. Puppies barking as if they're full grown dogs. Nothing great, certainly nothing to justify the rest of it, but enough to keep you going.

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Sometimes people call folks here at the Simple Way saints. Usually they either want to applaud our lives and live vicariously through us, or they want to write us off as superhuman and create a safe distance. One of my favorite quotes, written on my wall here in bold black marker, is from Dorothy Day: "Don't call us saints; we don't want to be dismissed that easily