Quotes About Simplicity

Living on a larger scale would soon entail a lot of care and strife We could be so happy with the little things in life A little rain, a little sun, a little work, a little fun A little time for loving when the day is done

You don't have to know how to read or write When you're out with a feller in the pale moonlight You don't have to look in a book to find What he thinks of the moon or what is on his mind

Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.

Life is simple," I said. "Ale, women, sword, and reputation. Nothing else matters.

He remembered how satisfied he had been as a youngster, and that with the little he had had - a dog, a stick, an aloneness he loved (which did not bleed him like his later loneliness), and he wished he could have lived longer in his boyhood. This was an old thought with him.

its normal pace, even with the threat of a gale. How long will it last, this peace I have found at sea? It is all of life that I contemplate—sun, clouds, time that passes and abides. Occasionally it is also that other world, foreign now, that I left centuries ago. The modern, artificial world where man has been turned into a money-making machine to satisfy false needs, false joys.

A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's.

On ne demande pas à une mouette apprivoisée pourquoi elle éprouve le besoin de disparaître de temps en temps vers la pleine mer. Elle y va, c'est tout, et c'est aussi simple qu'un rayon de soleil, aussi normal que le bleu du ciel.

I spend my time reading, sleeping, eating. The good, quiet life, with nothing to do. And little by little the water tank fills up.

I felt such a need to rediscover the wind of the high sea, nothing else counted at that moment, neither earth nor men. All Joshua and I wanted was to be left alone with ourselves. Any other thing did not exist, had never existed. You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all, and it is as simple as a ray of sunshine, as normal as the blue of the sky.

Ne complic?m viaÈ›a vrând s? compunem fraze sofisticate È™i complimente pentru a-i seduce pe ceilalÈ›i; dar Bilsheim b?gase de seam? c? acest simplu cuvânt, "evident", era mai mult decât suficient. Înc? un mister al comunic?rii interumane elucidat.

ever since, he's found the corporate lifestyle so stultifying and soul-destroying, he dreams of living in a wigwam in a field of growing his own food

As is the Vermont way, our trips were pretty low-key. No entourage. No advance people. No communications director. No security. Just Phil and me flying in coach, renting cars, and showing up for meetings—trying to get a sense of the potential support that might exist.

AND I ALWAYS THOUGHT And I always thought: the very simplest words must be enough. When I say what things are like Everyone's heart must be torn to shreds. That you'll go down if you don't stand up for yourself Surely you see that.

It's sensible, anyone can understand it. It's easy. You're not an exploiter, so you can grasp it. It's a good thing for you, find out more about it. The stupid call it stupid and the squalid call it squalid. It is against squalor and against stupidity. the exploiters call it a crime But we know: It is the end of crime. It is not madness, but The end of madness. It is not the riddle But the solution. It is the simple thing So hard to achieve. -"Praise of Communism

The most important thing is to learn to think crudely. Crude thinking is the thinking of great men.

Hvale nam život velikana duha Što žive, prazna stomaka, rad znanja U kolibi gde pacov miša ganja - Za takve gatke ja baš nemam sluha! Nek živi skromno kome je to san! Dojadiše mi (me? nama) te pri?e. Od Vavilona dovde, gde je pti?e Što bi tu hranu podnelo i dan? Šta tu sloboda vredi? Nisam slep: U blagostanju tek život je lep.

It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Death is re-arrangement; it is the disassociation of the compounds whose resultant was life; the breaking up of the complex organic products, and their gradual resolution into the simpler inorganic forms; until the living body, with its compounds of wonderful variety and intricacy, is resolved through stage after stage of ever-increasing simplicity into those ultimate fates of all living things, carbon dioxide, water, and ammonia; and then these re-commence the upward building once more.

To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.

When the country was new, homes, like dresses, were constructed more for wearing qualities than beauty.

Deep down I had the feeling that Oletta most likely knew all that was worth knowing, not in book-learning ways, but in the ways that really mattered, ways that let you hum songs during the day and sleep peacefully at night.

Explain little. Evoke all.

I wouldn't want to, say, move to L.A. or New York or some other fast-paced city where there's lots of action and excitement. Here's what I think: you make your own adventure in life. And I truly believe that if you open your eyes to your surroundings, there's lots of neat stuff to be found practically anywhere on earth. For me, the grass is never greener outside of Hawaii. If you ask me my