Quotes About Simplicity

It had the austere simplicity of fiction rather than the tangled woof of fact.

It baffled me how people could resist math's gorgeousness, but people did, and people do. The fine of its purity drives them away, the purity of the fine, unmixed with the heaviness of unnecessitated being.

Drifting across the vast space, silent except for wind and footsteps, I felt uncluttered and unhurried for the first time in a while, already on desert time.

In my room, the world is beyond my understanding; / But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four hills and a cloud.—WALLACE STEVENS, "OF THE SURFACE OF THINGS

Solange wir das Glück suchen oder herbeisehnen, erfahren wir es nicht. Glück ist vielleicht das, was uns hinterher als solches erscheint. Wenn wir aber ganz darauf vergessen, ist es kurz zu haben. Glück widerfährt uns manchmal, wenn wir ganz wir selbst sind.

Owning things is boring - obligations and responsibilities. It interest me less than creating things. Right now, I'd be prepared to give everything I own to my children and start again from scratch.

Having everythin is boring; I'm convinced of that. Once you have something - knowledge, skills, possessions - or have achieved something - climbing Mount Everest, for example - it becomes banal.

The little girl expects no declaration of tenderness from her doll. She loves it, & that's all. It is thus that we should love.

IF ONE'S LIFE is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, shelter to protect yourself from the elements. And finally, there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.

Slow is the new fast

The simplest things are often the truest.

Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again

Because fear is ugly and joy is beautiful, simple as that? Maybe so. Nothing so pretty as vanished fear.

Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight—how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating.

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become difficult.

In Watermelon Sugar deeds were done

One could think of seagulls. It's really a very simple thing to do… seagulls: past, present and future passing almost like drums to the sky.

Wherever you are, we must do the best we can. It is so far to travel, and we have nothing here to travel, except watermelon sugar..

Don't sweat the small stuff.

There are two rules for living in harmony. #1) Don't sweat the small stuff and #2) It's all small

So many people spend so much of their life energy 'sweating the small stuff' that they completely lose touch with the magic and beauty of life.

When you allow yourself to be bored, it takes an enormous amount of pressure off you to be performing and doing something every second of every day. Now, when either of my two children says to me, "Daddy, I'm bored," I respond by saying, "Great, be bored for a while. It's good for you." Once I say this, they always give up on the idea of me solving their problem.

This is pretty simple stuff. But the truth is, the reality of making money and wise decisions isn't very complicated. However, not many people understand the importance of a don't-worry attitude. If you do, you're one step ahead of the game.

While eating dessert, we ponder what we should do afterward. After that evening, it's "What should we do this weekend?" After we've been out, we walk into the house and immediately turn on the television, pick up the phone, open a book, or start cleaning. It's almost as though we're frightened at the thought of not having something to do, even for a minute.