Quotes About Simplicity

Her dresses. Her shoes. A bottle of her perfume. You don't need much to remember someone, Francisco. Even one thing will do.

Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays.

Dizzy Gillespie, the jazz trumpet player, once said, "It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play." He was one of my special ones. And he was quite correct. Silence enhances music. What you do not play can sweeten what you do. But

Blundering back to God. Simple as that.

You know, I never did call him Watson – he was John, simply John.

I do not think that less is necessarily more. But I don't think that more is necessarily more either. - Mohsin Hamid

We need but little learning to live happily.

My philosophy, like color television, is all there in black and white.

We do not have to know everything about something in order to understand it; too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in which we moderns are inundated with facts to the detriment of understanding.

It is only when you try to refine the obvious, and give the distinctions greater precision, that you get into difficulties. For

No es necesario saberlo todo acerca de un tema para comprenderlo; en muchas ocasiones, la existencia de demasiados hechos representa un obstáculo tan grande como la existencia de demasiados pocos. En la actualidad vivimos inundados de hechos, en detrimento de la comprensión.

Any good argument can be put into a nutshell. There

3) You must not only reduce the whole to its simplest unity, but you must also discover how that whole is constructed out of all its parts.

And for all I know he is sitting there still, under his favorite cork tree, smelling the flowers just quietly

What need have I for a palace? Rather to lie with you where the weeds grow thick.

THE SECOND TEACHING OF ST. FRANCIS IS that we find God when we become poor enough for God to find us.

A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.

tree in bloom, a white farmhouse—potted basil in the kitchen

The suburban dream began innocently enough one and a half centuries ago, with a weariness of city life and a craving for all things green bright and pure.

Fresh as a new notebook — that's how anyone wanted to live. Hopeful as a pencil sharpened, clear as one beam of light landing on the table's far side.

No one lives in these regions of rock and sun. It is a lucky part of the world; to grow old without buildings and roadways, to dissolve quietly without feeling stunned.

Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult

And if, through this desire of ours to say something, or do something, you feel that you must open your mouth, then do this: choose one word or a little phrase which well expresses your love for him; and then go on repeating it in peace, without trying to form thoughts, motionless in love before God who is love.

What makes us unhappy is to want. Yet if we would learn to cut our wants to nothing, the smallest thing we'd get would be a true gift.