Quotes About Simplicity

I'm not really interested in clothes. Mainly, I like wearing clothes that don't make me stand out - I tend to go for Marks & Spencer and Gap - and I do get put in the changing room at Gap, and clothes are passed to me under the changing room door.

WEF should restrict the number of passes for limos in the parking lots. They need to Keep it Simple.

In the midst of a thousand clouds and countless waters there is an idle person. By day, he roams the green mountains, at night, he returns to sleep beneath the cliff. Quickly, the seasons pass in serenity, with no worldly bonds. How joyful! What does he depend upon? Quiet, like a large autumn river.

Love everything but do not strive to possess anything.

The only simplicity for which I would give a straw is that which is on the other side of the complex—not that which never has divined it. —OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. There

Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon.

Go for a business that any idiot can run – because sooner or later any idiot probably is going to be running it.

The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. The world has enough women who know how to be brilliant. It needs some who will be brave. The world has enough women who are popular. It needs more who are pure. We need women, and men, too, who would rather be morally right than socially correct.

True luxury is either inestimable or completely free.

what need of wealth and riches when he could lead a simple, contented life

Clean dish towels can be as pleasurable as clean sheets.

Leave the kitchen bright, fresh, and ready for the next meal—as if it was new, and you had not been there.

So if you want to become more successful, I have a very simple, terrifying piece of advice: Cut your number of clients in half.

Cuanto más sencilla era la explicación, más fácil resultaba creerla. —El

You have to look like you're going somewhere and if you can you don't ever want to look like you're carrying everything you own. You want to travel light like you have a home and that's where you keep your things.

Christianity is not brain surgery or rocket science, it is not quantum mechanics or nuclear physics; it is both infinitely easier and more difficult than all of these. The fragile flame of faith is fanned into life so simply: all we need do is sit still for a few moments, embrace the silence that engulfs us, and invite that flame to burn bright within us.

Parables subvert this desire to make faith simple and understandable. They do not offer the reader clarity, for they refuse to be captured in the net of a single interpretation and instead demand our eternal return to their words, our wrestling with them, and our puzzling over them.

If there is any true value in running as a sport, it is that it is a great leveler. Runners don't gear up, armoring ourselves like football players; we strip down to the minimum and empty our hands and become what we are at our most natural, and thus we are reduced to what we all have in common: legs, lungs, heart, and mind. We are all out there on the same course, heading the same way, whatever our speed, a brother/sisterhood of chafed thighs and aching feet.

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 5:3).

Blessed is he who expects nothing," said Francis of Assisi, "for he shall enjoy everything.

Rule of Life. PRAYER Scripture Silence and Solitude Daily Office (Prayer) Study REST Sabbath Simplicity Play and Recreation WORK/ACTIVITY Service and Mission Care for the Physical Body RELATIONSHIPS Emotional Health Family Community (Companions for the Journey

Simplicity The primary issue here is to remove distractions and remain free from attachments.

human. To minimize