Quotes About Simplicity

I realise how pleasant life can be if I stop thinking about it. It is much simpler to exist than to live.

It is normal nowadays to spend most of our lives inside, temperature-controlled, light-switched, water-softened, air-freshened and double-glazed. We have become like babies in incubators, unable to survive in the world. I only sense the sterility of this when my situation is reversed and I spend so much time outside that going in feels strange once more. I am more at peace with myself and the world when I spend an extended period outdoors.

There lives and there leaps in me A love of the lowly things of earth, And a passion to be free. To pitch my tent with no prosy plan, To range and to change at will, To mock at the mastership of man, To seek Adventure's thrill, Carefree to be, as a bird that sings, To go my own sweet way. Robert Service

And although, snug in your sleeping bag on a frosty night, the valley below may be bright with street lights and roads, the wind is as raw and fresh as ever, and a night beneath the stars remains magical and precious.

It feels good to carry my world on my back. I smile in the sunlight. I could travel and live this lightly forever, I remember as I get into my stride.

I'd sliced his head off because in that moment I couldn't think of anything simpler or more beautiful to do.

While there were still children in the universe, and while children could still be enchanted by something as simple and wonderful as a flower, there was still a reason to keep looking, a reason to keep believing.

I have always believed in 'less is more' in everything I do, from work to my personal life.

I am very simple and minimalistic when it comes to dressing up in my personal life.

Personal style? I don't really believe in that. Whatever is comfortable.

I've always wanted something that the message is meaningful to me. I think about all these diversified personalities, people, and countries that I play. I'm simple, and I want to be able to sing my songs to anybody.

I look pretty nondescript. I don't go out of my way to... I don't express my personality with my clothes, with my car or my, you know, house. I express with my personality; so as far as what I wear - I don't really care about that.

We're in this incredible age where new brands are making people's lives easier, more convenient, more personalized.

I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong.

My ideal evening is to have dinner with one person or a few persons, and then be in bed by 11.

There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes.

I'm a hybrid, from a cultural perspective, but I don't think in these terms. I'm more simple than that. I'm a mammal who will live 70 years, more or less, who believes in God and likes his life.

Basic clothes are for all women, to last for decades and decades. They are the future and will never change. I am persuaded of that.

I'm not a greedy man; there really is nothing I couldn't live without. But if there was a fire, and I saved my child and my pets, I'd be happy.

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

It's really only all about music. It's not like a big rocket scientist kind of philosophy or anything.

I actually have this fantasy of giving up my cell phone.

I'm going to put on my gravestone, 'He never owned a cell phone.'

Berlin would be a great place to have no cell phone, I think. Especially if you were able to live in a central location.