Quotes About Simplicity

Gently I stir a white feather fan, With open shirt sitting in a green wood. I take off my cap and hang it on a jutting stone; A wind from the pine-tree trickles on my bare head.

Look at the flowers-for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.

Annihilating all that's made, To a green thought in a green shade.

I know I can walk through the world, along the shore or under the trees, with my mind filled with things of little importance, in full self-attendance. A condition I can't really call being alive.

Even trees understand me! Good heavens, I lie under them, too, don't I? I'm just like a pile of leaves.

Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!

Climbing trees is still one of my favorite things to do. A tree and a good book and I'm happy.

I worry about kids today not having time to build a tree house or ride a bike or go fishing. I worry that life is getting faster and faster.

My grandfather built my first hoop. It was a peach basket up against a tree, and we played in the dirt. I couldn't have been more than 6 when he put it up, and I just started playing.

There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees.

If everything I possessed, vanished, suddenly, I'd be sorry.But I value things unpossessed.The wind, and trees, and sky and kind thoughts, much more.

The greatest step towards a life of happiness and simplicity is to let go. Trust in the power that is already taking care of you spontaneously without effort.

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

He (God) is not looking for smart people, because He is the smart one. All he wants are people simple enough to trust him.

All genius is simple. It involves close observation and a momentous act of self trust.

The more we know of God, the more unreservedly we will trust him; the greater our progress in theology, the simpler and more child-like will be our faith

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

We need a childlike trust that God is good... ultimately we are OK. That is a simple, beautiful pure thing that can be complicated ferociously by all sorts of intellectual categories.

Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land.

Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.

I'm from the 'less is more' school. I had to be in the 'more is more' zone with 'Dallas Buyers Club', so I was out of my comfort zone, but I had to trust that.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

It does not take many words to tell the truth

The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.