Quotes About Simplicity

Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?

Shyly Nancy and Plum sat down at the table while Mrs. Campbell heaped pink-flowered plates with baked beans, sausage cakes and salad, passed a steaming plate of brown bread, cut them off generous pieces of the pat of new butter and handed them big mugs of ice-cold milk.

God often does the extraordinary through the ordinary.It seems that his Mysteries are revealed more fully through the simple and trusting hearts that walk with him every day.

I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It's that simple.

Enjoy simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of tea can be a deep meditation.

Seeing in myself this purity of livelihood, I found great solace in dwelling in the forest.

Suppose I shaved off my hair and beard, put on the yellow robe, and went forth from the house life into homelessness?

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body more than raiment?

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

To my mind, the only possible pet is a cow. Cows love you. They will listen to your problems and never ask a thing in return. They will be your friends forever. And when you get tired of them, you can kill and eat them. Perfect.

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

Simplified living is about more than doing less. It's being who God called us to be, with a wholehearted, single-minded focus. It's walking away from innumerable lesser opportunities in favor of the few to which we've been called and for which we've been created.

If it has a staple in it it doesn't get read. Never walk into a presentation without a one-page summary.

Future strong is letting go of what no longer serves you. Quickly.

Future strong strives for simplicity for all: Least amount of individual effort, energy and time to create maximum impact by each person.

electronic media have become an environment of their own- to the list of neighborhood and region and continent and planet we must now add television as a place where we live. and the problem is not that it exists- the problem is that it supplants. it's simplicity makes complexity hard to fathom.

There are times when I can almost feel myself simply being.

Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.

I don't even own a car.

The less you want, the happier you'll be.

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment.... There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.

A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.