Quotes About Simplicity

Why not just go with it? Just walk the dog and send the tweets and eat the scones and play with the hamsters and ride the bicycles and watch the sunsets and stream the movies and never worry about any of it? I didn't know it could be that easy. I didn't know that until just now. That sounds good to me. I think I might be able to do that. Who couldn't do that? It would take somebody mentally ill not to do that, and I'm not mentally ill.

To achieve happiness, one must be willing to let go of what no longer serves them.

When in doubt, do the obvious.

There's something very satisfying about numbers. Numbers are what they are. They're very straightforward. Unlike people.

It's possible to understand the world from studying a leaf. You can comprehend the laws of aerodynamics, mathematics, poetry and biology through the complex beauty of such a perfect structure. It's also possible to travel the whole globe and learn nothing.

Thich Nhat Hanh said: "I am not running anymore; I have run all my life; now I am determined to stop and really live my life.

El mundo es mucho más fácil cuando eres idiota, porque una de las bendiciones de serlo es que no sabes que lo eres.

quisiera que, viniendo despacio, como antes, desde la cocina, desde el patio, en la noche cítrica, una mano, materna o familiar, es decir, de dedos conocidos, en el viejo sentido, anterior a la explosión, a esta deriva sin dirección y sin bordes, encendiera, por fin, la luz, del cuarto sin lujo, austero, con, apenas, lo necesario para reconocer el honor y la constancia de lo que es, lo que es en su seguir siendo, mesa, jarra, botella, ventana y paraíso.

Si lo piensas bien, lo único que se necesita en esta vida es un poco de calor en el momento adecuado, un poquitín nada más, ¿no crees...?

LA CUADRA Cuando, al mediodía, voy a ver a Platero, un transparente rayo del sol de las doce enciende un gran lunar de oro en la plata blanda de su lomo. Bajo su barriga, por el oscuro suelo, vagamente verde, que todo lo contagia de esmeralda, el techo viejo llueve claras monedas de fuego. Diana, que está echada entre las patas de Platero, viene a mí, bailarina, y me pone sus manos en el pecho, anhelando lamerme la boca con su lengua rosa. Subida en lo más alto del

There you'll find the place I love most in the world. The place where I grew thin from dreaming. My village, rising from the plain. Shaded with trees and leaves like a piggy bank filled with memories. You'll see why a person would want to live there forever. Dawn, morning, mid-day, night: all the same, except for the changes in the air. The air changes the color of things there. And life whirs by as quiet as a murmur...the pure murmuring of life.

People I had never seen before flocked in, their faces showing a longing you never saw for cake. People's eyes lit up for a cupcake, cake seemed to signal celebration. But their eyes got filmy, watery, misty when we handed them a slice of pie. Pie was memory. Nostalgia. Pie made people recall simpler, maybe happier times.

How did you learn how to do this, whittle the complex down to simple?

design is so important because chaos is so hard

Im Wald gab es Töten ohne Hass, Fortpflanzung ohne Liebe, Kooperation ohne Gesetze, Ernährung ohne Wissenschaft und Lebensfreude ohne Philosophie.

distancia la que embellece las cosas y las despeja

It was simple. His world was Kate. If he denied that, he might as well stop breathing right now.

Mysterious creatures, women. If they could just learn to say what they meant, the world would be a far simpler place.

Just her and the great outdoors. Gwendolyn Margaret Passmore and a million blades of grass.

Las mujeres eran criaturas misteriosas. Si pudieran aprender a decir lo que realmente querían decir, el mundo sería de lejos un lugar más sencillo.

When people were convinced they had problems, the last thing they wanted to hear was a simple, straightforward solution.

His heart had grown, and he'd thought it might burst. He loved her. Suddenly the world was a very simple place. He loved her, and that was all that mattered.

Nothing is ever as complicated as it is in one's mind.

He loved her. Suddenly the world was a very simple place. He loved her, and that was all that mattered.