Quotes About Simplicity

Now the whole dizzying and delirious range of sexual possibilities has been boiled down to that one big, boring, bulimic word. RELATIONSHIP.

While success takes hard work, there's something to be said for taking the path of least resistance.

Maybe I needed to make like a potato, winnow myself down, be part of something that was not easy, just simple.

I have never looked to religion for comfort - belief is just not in my genes. But reading Mastering the Art of French Cooking - childishly simple and dauntingly complex, incantatory and comforting - I thought this was what prayer must feel like. Sustenance bound up with anticipation and want. Reading MtAoFC was like reading pornographic Bible verses.

There's nothing complicated or expensive about living purposefully and meaningfully. And we don't have to travel to some exotic place to "find ourselves," or to make a difference. The most effective practices that afford us the most happiness and meaning are done within the context of our daily lives. This is the premise of all my work – bringing our ideas and practices into our daily life. The place we make a real difference is within our own personal lives.

Es como un caballo, sólo adora las cosas puras y sin mezcla. Los colores primarios, la escala de siete notas. No es humana, creeme.

La verdad que no me importa si no entiendo a las mujeres. Lo único que vale la pena es que lo quieran a uno. Si están nerviosas, si se hacen problemas por cualquier macana, bueno nena, ya está, deme un beso y se acabó. (La señorita Cora)

si devolverla a la tranquilidad hubiera sido tan simple como escribirlo con las palabras alineándose en un cuaderno como segundos congelados, pequeños dibujos del tiempo para ayudar el paso interminable de la tarde, si solamente fuera eso...

Estábamos bien, y poco a poco empezábamos a no pensar. Se puede vivir sin pensar.

Ingredientes: una acera, una piedrita, un zapato, y un bello dibujo con tiza, preferentemente de colores.

Con tan poca cosa puede un hombre ser feliz», pensó. «Ni siquiera un beso. Con tan poco. La taza de té preparada con su mínima liturgia, un insecto dormido sobre un libro, un perfume viejo. Sí, casi la nada…»

In the mansion called literature I would have the eaves deep and the walls dark, I would push back into the shadows the things that come forward too clearly, I would strip away the useless decoration. I do not ask that this be done everywhere, but perhaps we may be allowed at least one mansion where we can turn off the electric lights and see what it is like without them.

Every long sentence can be broken up into shorter ones, and if you don't know how—if you don't see within your long sentences groupings of simple, clear ideas—it will show.

WELCOMING ANGELS In the arduous simplicity of this moment I open my heart, mind, and soul to stillness. In the deeper quiet I sense the greater Life that is my life. I do not live only; I am lived. I do not breathe only; I am breathed. I am not only the one I appear to be but also the One who appears as me. —rabbi rami m. shapiro

When he asked my grandmother if she would mind being poor, she said she would be happy just to have her daughter and himself: 'If you have love, even plain water is sweet.

If you have love, even plain cold water is sweet.

I was brought up in a very open, rural countryside in the middle of nowhere. There were no cell phones. If your lights went out, you were lit by candlelight for a good four days before they can get to you. And so, my imagination was crazy.

It's one of those easy stories because in essence it explains it all.

Travel light, was all she ever said about the house when he suggested he buy her a lamp or anything, and he suspected that she would have said the same thing about having more friends.

Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.

Maybe just being alive, and having someone to love who loved you back, was enough.

The key to happiness in life is not to have everything, but to appreciate everything we have. Let's focus on the good and find motivation in the little things.

Hunger is a reliable feeling; it had a simplicity love or grief did not.

I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff.