Quotes About Simplicity

Incompetence will show in the use of too many words. The reader's first and simplest test of an author will be to look for words that do not function; that contribute nothing to the meaning OR that distract from the MOST important factor of the meaning to factors of minor importance.

Monocausality reduces the study of history to meaningless simplicities (p.14).

I have learned over a period of time to be almost unconsciously grateful--as a child is--for a sunny day, blue water, flowers in a vase, a tree turning red. I have learned to be glad at dawn and when the sky is dark. Only children and a few spiritually evolved people are born to feel gratitude as naturally as they breathe, without even thinking. Most of us come to it step by painful step, to discover that gratitude is a form of acceptance.

Wish" Just your hot heart, nothing more. My Paradise, a field, no nightingales, no strings, a river, discrete, and a little fountain. Without the spurs, of the wind, in the branches, without the star, that wants to be a leaf. An enormous light that will be the flow of the Other, in a field of broken gazes. A still calm where our kisses, sonorous circles of echoes, will open, far-off. And your hot heart, nothing more.

En la tierra encuentro una profunda sugestión de pobreza. Y amo la pobreza por sobre todas las cosas. No la pobreza sórdida y hambrienta, sino la pobreza bienaventurada, simple, humilde, como el pan moreno.

And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.

Any kind of anthemic song, for the most part, they're on the positive side of things. It's not hard to identify when a melody is just one degree too complicated or one degree too simple and where that line of pop memorability lies.

Life already has so many boundaries and pressures - why add more in the garden?

Marena looked at all of them out of her big, calm, shining eyes. "Love is no nonsense," she said. "It has to come.

This is why one becomes a monk: to cultivate in every moment presence to the beauty of the world.

For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief.

There's nothing like taking a crap in the woods.

Mi sueño es el de Picasso; tener mucho dinero para vivir tranquilo como los pobres.

I'm not a materialist, I don't care for things. I don't like cars, I hate things that can be exploited. I live a simple life. The only luxuries I have in my life are travel and food.

If you don't have a date Celebrate Go out and sit on the lawn And do nothing 'Cause it's just what you must do Nobody does it anymore.

The more modest and impractical the kitchen, the more likely one will be invited to stay for a meal. Show me a fancy house with a top-of-the-line gourmet kitchen, and I'll show you a family that eats out a lot.

People were poorer and had not the comforts, amusements, or knowledge we have today; but they were happier.

The singers were rude and untaught and poor beyond modern imagining; but they deserve to be remembered, for they knew the now lost secret of being happy on little.

Peanut butter is the pate of childhood.

I believe your trouble, which is a congestion, has come from having things stored away. Congestion of things causes congestion in the body.

Take only what you need, not what you want.

There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.

La vie est humiliante de simplicité : on fait tout pour échapper à ses parents, et puis on devient eux.

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