Quotes About Simplicity

what I love is slowness. Slow people, slow reading, slow traveling, slow eggs, and slow love. Everything good comes slow.

I love to take things that are everyday and comforting and make them into the most luxurious things in the world.

Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine.

It would be wonderful if this world was guided by little children, because they are closer to life than anyone else.

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

We'd be better off if we only had the words 'I love you.'

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.

How I would love to be transported into a scented Elizabethan garden with herbs and honeysuckles, a knot garden and roses clambering over a simple arbor.

Learn to love the sunrise and sunset, the beating of rain on the roof and windows, and the gentle fall of snow on a winter day.

I love a strong brow and ChapStick with glowing skin and messy hair. I'm a minimalist at heart.

Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.

True love is but a humble, low born thing, And hath its food served up in earthenware; It is a thing to walk with, hand in hand, Through the every-dayness of this workday world.

When I stripped myself completely of pressure and thoughts of sponsors and realized I only love to climb, that's the day I did it.

I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.

Buy things you truly love, things that are special, but not a lot of them. It's about value, not quantity.

The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life-until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.

My garden will never make me famous, I'm a horticultural ignoramus.

Go on loving what is good, simple, and ordinary.

I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just from the heart.

Babies don't know who's rich and who's poor. You love 'em and they're happy.

I once fell in love with a crab on the beach. It was called crab.

When I'm not working I just like to be comfortable: I love black, nothing tight, no heels, no make-up - it's nice to be able to breathe!