Quotes About Simplicity

Ornaments were invented by modesty.

Never cut what you can untie

Et sa chanson ne ressemblait en rien à toutes celles que, ici, on avait l'habitude d'entendre. C'était une complainte, très vieille et très lente, d'une simplicité terrible et dont chaque mot tombait un à un, comme ces cailloux qu'on jette dans une eau étale et qui la font trembler longtemps, ride sur ride, onde sur onde.

I should like to slip out of the public gaze...to bury myself in the farm and devote my attention to farming and educating." Mahatma Gandhi

In sharing the journey of life, travel with the humble person on the quiet path.

it takes almost a lifetime to learn how to do a thing simply.

No era necesario poner lo que uno tenía que decir en un poema, un ensayo, un cuento o una novela. Sólo había que decirlo.

when we consider the question carefully, we find that creation and sanc tification do not add to the perfection of God, but merely to that of the creature. It is not the divine operation as such that undergoes an intrinsic change, but solely the product of this operation. Hence God's free operation ad extra furnishes no objective reason why His operation and nature should be split up and His simplicity endangered. 39

The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

Only the small things in life are important

Er war so einfach und untadelig wie seine Konduitenliste, und nur der Zorn, der ihn manchmal ergriff, hätte einen Kenner der Menschen ahnen lassen, daß auch in der Seele des Hauptmanns Trotta die nächtlichen Abgründe dämmerten, in denen die Stürme schlafen und die unbekannten Stimmen namenloser Ahnen.

Justbarley!

I don't want all that much. But I want to be fine. I want to live a simple life with many good moments and a lot of fun.

It was so nice and uncomplicated. When I wasn't sleeping I ran around and was excited. I never walked. I ran.

Jeg burde koble ham med Constance. De hadde elsket hverandre. De kunne ha ridd og løpt nakne rundt i skogen og spist rugbrød og i det hele tatt hatt det fintfint sammen.

Es más fácil escoger de una vez para siempre que verte aturdido cada vez que vas a comprar algo nuevo.

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

Better a dish of husks to the accompaniment of a muted lute than to be satiated with stewed shark's fin and rich spiced wine of which the cost is frequently mentioned by the provider.

Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away as my mind focused itself on the relentless pixelated onslaught on the screen in front of me. There, inside the game's two-dimensional universe, life was simple: It's just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

A stood for altimeter. It told how high a man flew. B stood for boost. It told the power in the engines. C stood for compass. It told in which direction a man was proceeding. It was delightfully simple.