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Quotes About Simplicity

I want someone to say, "I love you and that's all I really know." That's the girly girl in me.
~ Taylor Swift
I love him who desireth not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one's destiny to cling to.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Humble spirits are free to love and to be who they are. They have no artificial standards to live up to.
~ Gary Zukav
We're always looking for the Big Love, the Big High, the next Big Thing to happen. We miss what's in front of us.
~ Geneen Roth
Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires.
~ George Sand
What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Need nothing. Enjoy everything. Love all.
~ Hal Elrod
I loved, as I still love, the most monotonous life possible.
~ Harriet Martineau
I love the broad margin to my life.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I have no designs on society, or nature, or God. I am simply what I am, or I begin to be that. I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. I love to live.
~ Henry David Thoreau
As for the complex ways of living, I love them not, however much I practice them. In as many places as possible, I will get my feet down to the earth.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I cut coupons, love specials and believe in buying toilet paper and toothpaste in bulk. It's just who I am.
~ Hilary Swank
When love exists, nothing else matters, not life's predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity.
~ Isabel Allende
O love's a simple word to sayWith nature aiding and abetting
~ Jan Struther
I love the idea of playing a character that didn't over think everything. He knows what's in front of him and he has an ability to just say whatever he felt.
~ Jason Schwartzman
What I love about lyrics is that they don't have to be very complicated. A good sentence over a great chord with a good melody - all you need is that one moment.
~ Jason Schwartzman
I love the day date. No wine, no shower.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
I love to be alone with life. I love to study simple things: the light as it filters in a window; the music of a room full of people chatting; a horizon.
~ Jewel
When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you would the native roses on your cheek.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken cisterns of prosperity and comfort.
~ John Piper
Lord make me satisfied with small things. Make me content to live on the outside of life. God make me love the rind!
~ Josephine Winslow Johnson
Conservatives like Palin and Reagan and others do seem to love the series, but so do people of all political stripes and backgrounds. I speak about the series' "radiant simplicity."
~ Judith Thurman
The world is simple, I think, in its essence. Life, death, love, hate. Desire, fulfillment. Magic.
~ Juliet Marillier
I think it's the same simple thing for everyone - to be happy, and have love in your life.
~ Juliette Binoche