Quotes About Simplicity

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I have long made friends with the open sky-- Rough are its ways, but true.

Clarity attracts and confusion repels.

When you are really in love, when it's the right guy, it's not this hard. Things fall into place; they work. If it's meant to be, it'll work itself out.

I buy food and gasoline - that's it.

Never waste, never worry

I have only the simplest shades in my house. I think a window treatment is something you should give a window when it's sick.

The ground was as clear and clean as Sal's own yard.

Nakedness is nakedness. We all wanted comfort.

Especially in a world that doesn't need homemade anything.That's when we need homemade everything.

It was a place where folks were happy simply to get on with life: raise their families, do good work, live decent lives.

That's because I don't know how to talk to children." "Yes, you do. It's the same as talking to grown-ups, only there are more things you have to explain.

My greatest strength is... common sense. I'm really a standard brand -- like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.

Our academic home was simple in its appointments, —so simple that Joy-of-Life and I often merrily quoted to each other the comment of a calling freshman: "When I'm old, I mean to have a dear little house just like this one, all furnished with nothing but books.

The "rain bath," as the shower was called, was the simplest, quickest, cheapest, cleanest and withal best bath for people's bath houses; the one which requires the least space, the least time, the least amount of water, the least fuel for warming water, the least attendance, the least cost of maintenance. Standing

I'm really proud of myself because I've pared my beauty regimen down to a cream blush and berry-tinted lip balm, which has saved me so much time.

Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

I want to lie in the dust,

Contentment consisteth not in heaping more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching.

The tricky bit was looking inside yourself to see what bits of the works were missing. Once you'd overcome that hurdle the rest was fairly simple.

For all her few years, I saw her then as I see her now, the sanest, the most uncluttered and the most direct of beings. Her ability to ignore the excesses of information, dismiss the useless frill and uncover the heart of things was truly magical.

Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats grapenuts on principle.