Quotes About Simplicity

It is a waste to use too many words when just a few will do.

to increase my wealth I had to decrease my wants.

To a physicist, beauty means symmetry and simplicity. If a theory is beautiful, this means it has a powerful symmetry that can explain a large body of data in the most compact, economical manner. More precisely, and equation is considered to be beautiful if it remains the same when we interchange its components among themselves.

To give to one another and receive from one another is the purpose of a relationship. We don't need a lot of words. When we share time with someone, what is important is to communicate with feelings, not with words. But if we want to share words, we don't need anything complicated. It's just three words: "I love you." That's it. What makes you happy is not the love that other people feel for you, but the love you feel for other people.

The universe is as simple as it is or it is not, but humans complicate everything.

Cuando nos comportamos como niños nos resulta maravilloso porque ese es el estado normal de la mente humana, la tendencia natural.

The key to real happiness in this world is appreciating what you have, and knowing what you want. Everything else is just noise.

Not causing trouble, not touching anything, fixing the primus.

A childish feeling, I admit, but, when we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each attribute acquired by experience falls away from the soul, which becomes anew such as it was once and will surely be again.

Ever since poets have written and women have read them (for which the poets should be most deeply grateful) women have been called angels so many times that, in very truth, in their simplicity of soul, they have believed the compliment, forgetting that, for money, the same poets have glorified Nero as a demigod . . .

djetinjasto osje?anje, nema zbora, ali kad god se udaljimo od društvenih obzira i približimo prirodi, i nehotice postajemo djeca; sve što je ste?eno otpada s duše i ona opet postaje onakva kakva je bila neko? i kakva ?e, zacijelo, opet jednom biti.

Tout dans ce monde est absurde : la nature est bête, la destinée est simplette, et la vie ne vaut pas un kopeck.

Dogs are our link to Paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace.

He was down and out, the Catholics took him in, and before he knew it, he had faith. So it was gratitude that decided the issue, most likely. Human decisions are terribly simple.

It was gratitude that decided the issue, most likely. Human decisions are terribly simple.

Tereza realized, she positively enjoyed being welcome into the day by Karenin. Waking up was sheer delight for him: he always showed a naive and simple amazement at the discovery that he was back on earth; he was sincerely pleased (..describing how Karenin, Tereza's pet dog welcomed each day)

TekdüzeliÄŸi mutluluk üretirdi, s?k?nt? deÄŸil.

Yataklar?na uzanm?? olan iki k?zkardeÅŸ, belirli bir ÅŸey için gülmüyorlard?, gülüÅŸlerinin bir hedefi yoktu, bu gülüÅŸ varl???n var olmaktan duyduÄŸu sevincin anlat?m?yd?.

The greatest adventure of our lives is the absence of adventure.

?ó là cái gì bình th??ng. Và cái gì bình th??ng ??u ??p ??.

Y es que las preguntas verdaderamente serias son aquéllas que pueden ser formuladas hasta por un niño. Solo las preguntas más ingenuas son verdaderamente serias.

No hay nada de particular en los cuerpos desnudos! ¡Son normales! ¡Todo lo que es normal, es bello!

I used to admire believers, Tomas continued, I thought they had an odd transcendental way of perceiving things which was closed to me. Like clairvoyants, you might say. But my son's experience proves that faith is actually quite a simple matter. He was down and out, the Catholics took him in, and before he knew it, he had faith. So it was gratitude that decided the issue, most likely. Human decisions are terribly simple.

Human decisions are terribly simple.