Quotes About Simplicity

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

Better to release the first version sooner with less. His was a less-now, more-later ethic. Robert

Minimalism allows you to live without fear, worry, guilt, or depression. You have the mindset to experience real freedom when you live a minimalist lifestyle.

A mathematical proof should resemble a simple and clear-cut constellation, not a scattered cluster in the Milky Way.

I've had enough of chasing after poetry; I believe that poetry lies at one's very door or perhaps in one's very bed. I'm still a man on the run, but I shall try to stop and wait.

Much of our lack of peace is the result of willingly exploiting ourselves by creating an overextended, imbalanced lifestyle organized around trying to accumulate what we often do not need and which is detrimental to our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being.

It is enough to be, nothing more is needed." The

C'est si petit, si laid et si plein d'enfants chez nous.

I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quiet a kind of song. The kind that you hum without even knowing what it is or why you're humming it. The kind that you've always known.

I feel I am not suited for this life," Emily confessed. "I have devoted months to growing a single carrot and I have no time to read.

There must be more to life than working and swimming and playing Go." "The boredom you speak of," Alabaster said. "It is what most of us call happiness.

When she was forty, would she lament that she hadn't had sex with more people and partied more? But then, she didn't enjoy many people, and she had never gone to a party that she wasn't eager to leave. She hated being drunk, though she did enjoy smoking a joint every now and then. She liked playing games, seeing a foreign movie, a good meal. She liked going to bed early and waking up early.

No. It's very simple. I want to make something that will make people happy.

I stopped 'not' looking at her breasts for a moment in order to look in her eyes. I saw amusement and understanding there, and I was in love. At that age (or any age for that matter), our hearts are simple enough.

As a form, the picture book has a similar elegance to the short story.

How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn't want or need anything from them.

I'm not sure I know what 'simple-hearted' means," I said haughtily. "When there's no deceit or malice in your heart. Most of us have some; it protects us. People without it are rare.

I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success.

The less you do to beautiful food, the better it's going to taste. You don't need to mess with it all the time.

Please, Matsu-san,' I told him, not long after the house was completed. 'I don't wish to have any flowers.' "Never once did he question me. I needed my life to be simple without any beauty to remind me of all I had lost. And though I had not told him that, Matsu must have seen it in my eyes. 'Don't worry, Sachi,' he said, 'there will be no flowers.

Everything seems simpler from a distance.

Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

Whatever happens. Whatever what is is is what I want. Only that. But that.