Quotes About Simplicity

But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.

When I started to use fewer ingredients in my cooking, I was reminded of the uncomplicated flavours of my childhood.

What I discovered all over Ireland is that people living simple lives by the sea or in the remote countryside seem a lot calmer than city folk with their iPads and their Android phones.

I want to bring drawing back to the basics, make it about the pleasure that it can afford and remove the notion that it's some kind of precious or difficult activity. It's another way of telling a story.

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.

If something is easy to repair, it is easy to construct.

A five minute call replaces the time it takes to read and reply to the original email and read and reply to their reply... or replies. And I no longer spend 20+ minutes crafting the perfect email - no need to.

I am not in any hurry to grow up.

I'm kind of a homebody. My husband says I like to just stay home and do nothing, but that's just how I am.

My husband knows I'm not a big material person - we're very lucky to have lovely things, but I want a foot rub or to just sit and talk.

Human beings needed to slow down. We had been living a life full of hustle.

I hate hype.

I don't really hype myself up with fancy things.

You don't really need a lot of hype and to be famous to sell songs.

Big cubes, small cubes - it's all ice. I'm not that fancy.

I have a great family, and I have a great home, husband, and son. So I think that's probably all anyone ever needs anyway. Everything else is the icing on top of the cake to be quite honest.

Rouje is my ideal closet, as I want to be able to wear every piece and appreciate them.

Having too many ideas is not always a good thing.

What I most identify with is effortless fashion, looking as if someone's not put a lot of effort into their look.

A 'nidiot' is something different from an idiot. An idiot is someone whose problems are caused by not concentrating enough. A 'nidiot' is someone who makes his life more complicated by thinking too much rather than not enough. I'm not an idiot, but I'm definitely a 'nidiot'!

The fact that I have to set things to record seems idiotic. And channel guides - I get home, and I want to watch a Duke basketball game; why do I have to go hunting to find out what channel it's on? Why can't I just say, 'I want to watch Duke basketball.' Or, even better, why doesn't the system know that?

I wanted to see if I could be happy without a lot of stuff. And what I found out was, yeah, I really could.

You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does... it's illegal.