Quotes About Simplicity

How can I lead people into the quiet place beside the still waters if I am in perpetual motion? How can I persuade a person to live by faith and not by works if I have to juggle my schedule constantly to make everything fit into place?

Abruptly Jesus broke into prayer: "Thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth. You've concealed your ways from sophisticates and know-it-alls, but spelled them out clearly to ordinary people. Yes, Father, that's the way you like to work.

Here's what I want you to do: Find a quiet, secluded place so you won't be tempted to role-play before God. Just be there as simply and honestly as you can manage. The focus will shift from you to God, and you will begin to sense his grace.

You're blessed when you're content with just who you are—no more, no less. That's the moment you find yourselves proud owners of everything that can't be bought.

The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Simplicity is in such scarce supply, I thought, yet so many people would benefit by it, be transformed by it.

There was a market opportunity there, I felt. Go ahead, someone. Embrace "less is more" for those who need simplicity. Was my deterioration starting to affect my judgment? Was I getting wise—or just cranky? I didn't know. I just wanted an easy-to-use cell phone. One without a damn camera.

The mathematician could formulate only a handful of interesting theorems without defining concepts beyond those contained in the axioms and that the concepts outside those contained in the axioms are defined with a view of permitting ingenious logical operations which appeal to our aesthetic sense both as operations and also in their results of great generality and simplicity.

When he says, "Why can't you follow a recipe?" I am hurt, because I know that he is not just asking why I can't be told what to do, but also why I can't let things be simple.

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

The world was so beautiful in those days, Annika. The music, the flowers, the scent of pines..." "It still is," said Annika. "Honestly, it still is.

But not joy. No, that belonged to simpler minds.

If the relentless personal maintenance plan has taken over your life, give it a rest.

Well, I don't find glamour and clothing relevant.

I know people who have, until recently, lived with dirt floors. There are people who live way back off the grid, without electricity. Not a whole lot, but quite a few. That's a choice for a lot of them. There might be a religious element in their isolation, at least with some of them.

Dogme is like leading a religious life, in that you are freeing yourself from making certain choices. It makes life easier.

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.

When you're only source of income is a $20 allowance and you rely on a Razor scooter to get around, life's not that serious.

To be able to rely completely on the actors was a very simple process for me.

Sometimes I watch movies. I don't party. I don't go out. It's just me and my homies in our circle. I stay away from everyone and everything so I can just continue to remain who I am.

Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.

Home remedies are the best.

I don't think I've done any profound work yet... People ask me, 'How would you want to be remembered?' I tell them I don't want to be remembered! I'm not here to become a Madhubala or receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. I'm not that kind of a person. And I'm not brash about it; it's just the way I am.

I always cling to things that remind me of being a kid again.