Quotes About Simplicity

I'm Catholic, he's Jewish, and it was just easier to elope.

I enjoy the burger joint the same way I enjoy fancy meals.

One of the great things about kids is they haven't heard a lot of the old jokes. You can get away with the corny ones.

fundamental Italian cookery rule that less is more!

For that school is so busied with the particles that it hardly attends to the structure, while the others are so lost in admiration of the structure that they do not penetrate to the simplicity of nature. These kinds of contemplation should therefore be alternated and taken by turns, so that the understanding may be rendered at once penetrating and comprehensive, and the inconveniences above mentioned, with the idols which proceed from them, may be avoided.

Thrift was never more necessary in the world's history than it is today.

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

Our most successful bubbles, our only successful ones are doubtless those that are the least worked. For can one work on a bubble? Surely not, - unless (carefully) with the very breath that gives it birth. It is only necessary to blow it with an even enough breath, with just the right pretentiousness, a movement of the soul at once measured and persistent, yet not too much so - until it detaches itself quasi-spontaneously from the pipe.

the cosmogony of Genesis is so simple that even a yokel can grasp it. It is set forth in a few phrases. It offers, to an ignorant man, the irresistible reasonableness of the nonsensical. So he accepts it with loud hosannas, and has one more excuse for hating his betters.

Mejor me sabe en un platón la sopa y el vino con la mosca y la zurrapa que al rico que se engulle todo el mapa muchos años de vino en ancha copa

ONE AFTERNOON DURING THAT FINAL SPRING, AFTER SHE HAD TURNED THIRTY AURA TURNED TO ME FROM HER DESK WHILE I LAY ON THE BED READING, AND SHE SAID, 'WE HAVE EVERYTHING WE NEED TO BE HAPPY. WE DONT HAVE TO BE RICH. WE CAN GET JOBS IN THE UNIVERSITIES IF WE NEED THEM. WE HAVE OUR BOOKS, OUR READING, OUR WRITING, AND WE HAVE EACH OTHER, FRANK. WE DONT NEED MORE TO BE HAPPY, WE ARE SO LUCKY. DO YOU KNOW HOW LUCKY WE ARE?

Todo le recibe como si le esperase desde siempre, y puede mirar a los perros y a los gatos frente a frente, lo cual nosotros no hacemos nunca. El niño pasa del sueño a la vigilia dentro de una misma palabra, sin ruptura, sin trauma, y va por la casa despertando a lo que siempre estuvo dormido, hasta que él llegó.

There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.

It required attention, openness, humility. It required the recognition that something small could be enough, that something ordinary could be extraordinary.

Sweetes' li'l' feller—Everybody knows;Dunno what ter call 'im,But he's mighty lak' a rose!

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

Less is only more where more is no good.

You will find Goodness and Truth everywhere you go. If you have to choose, choose Truth. For that is closest to Earth. Keep close to the Earth, ...: in that lies strength. Simplicity of heart is just as necessary for an architect as for a farmer or a minister if the architect is going to build great buildings.

I told her tea bags were just a convenience for people with busy lives and she said no one is so busy they can't take time to make a decent cup of tea and if you are that busy you don't deserve a decent cup of tea for what is it all about anyway? Are we put into this world to be busy or to chat over a nice cup of tea?

In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it.

the only thing to do is simply continue is that simple yes, it is simple because it is the only thing to do can you do it yes, you can because it is the only thing to do

we are all happy and young and toothless it is the same as old age the only thing to do is simply continue is that simple yes, it is simple because it is the only thing to do can you do it yes, you can because it is the only thing to do

Dado que un hogar desordenado conduce a una mente desordenada, y una mente desordenada conduce al estrés, a la ansiedad y a la depresión, no es sorprendente que el simple hecho de adoptar un enfoque minimalista de la vida pueda traerle una mayor felicidad.

I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.