Quotes About Simplicity

I'm a carb queen. I'll always order macaroni and cheese, but I don't want it to be fancy. I want it to be as close to Kraft Services as it can possibly get!

I may be boring, but that's okay; I don't want to hard-sell myself.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

I live in New York and it's the greatest city, but sometimes I want to move to the place with the porch and the lemonade and the farm.

I am a simple man and I want simple answers.

People want honest, flavourful food, not some show-off meal that takes days to prepare.

The River... It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing. Lord! the times we've had together!

I grew up in a very simple home, a very simple background, and to be able to do what I'm able to do today, I'm very honored. I don't think I'll ever lose that perspective, and I don't want to.

Life is so simple, really. Think through what people want, watch what others fail to give them, and provide it. Then bill'em.

Old pond— a frog jumps in the sound of water

For Loveliness, Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most

Every woman has not the same talents to please alike, yet, all have some peculiar to themselves; the one sings, another dances with a peculiar grace. One charms by her sense and sensibility; another catches the heart by mere simplicity.

What cannot be made simple cannot be made clear and what is not clear will not get done.

it is these miracles of execution," Clausewitz writes, "that we should really admire."9 The fact is that in war "things do not happen of their own accord like a well-oiled machine, indeed the machine itself starts to create resistance, and overcoming it demands enormous willpower on the part of the leader."10 In war, "everything is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult… taking action in war is movement in a resistant medium."11

Man's wisdom detracts from the glory of God, who is more honoured by the simplicity of the gospel, than luxuriance of wit.

We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough

in Jeffrey S. Cramer. Walden: A fully annotated edition. Yale University Press: New Haven, 2004

Stephen Mitchell. Tao te Ching. Harper Perennial: New York, 1991

Gandhi: The Essential Writings. Oxford University Press: London, 2008

The mantra becomes" M. K. Gandhi. Self Restraint v. Self-Indulgence. Navajivan Publishing, 1947

Do not follow others," Corot exhorted. "He who follows is always behind. You must interpret Nature with entire simplicity and according to your personal sentiment, altogether detaching yourself from what you know of the old masters or of contemporaries. Only in this way will you do work of real feeling.

The Tao te Ching says, "[The Master] doesn't glitter like a jewel Ã¢â'¬Â¦ [but is] as rugged and common as a stone.

She was a woman who had retained the simplicity of earlier life even as she had surpassed its limitations.

The red sun was pasted in the sky like a wafer.