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Quotes About Simplicity

I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.
~ Ben Nicholson
That is how our marriage is working so well. My secret of happiness is keeping my contact to the minimum.
~ Cyrus Broacha
I like to keep it bare minimum, be it make-up or accessories.
~ Mithila Palkar
I try to keep the theatrics to a minimum and let the music do the talking.
~ Billy Squier
When I was a kid, I never thought about anything. Never had to think about where I was going to school or what I was going to do. I just lived minute to minute.
~ Larry Bird
Elements like these are within us and all around us. In each second of our lives we can enjoy them. If we do so, seeds of peace, joy, and happiness will be planted in us, and they will become strong. The secret to happiness is happiness itself. Wherever we are, any time, we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other, the wonder of our breathing. We don't have to travel anywhere else to do so. We can be in touch with these things right now.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
When you drink your tea, just drink your tea. Enjoy drinking your tea. Please don't drink your suffering, your despair, your projects.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Thinking of yourself as or calling yourself a Buddhist can be a disadvantage because if you wear the title Buddhist that may be an obstacle which prevents others from discovering the human being in you.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
My Dharma is the practice of nonpractice.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
NhiêÌ€u hoÌ£c gi? Ä'ã laÌ€m cho giáo pháp c?a BuÌ£t tr? nên ph?c taÌ£p vaÌ€ khó hi?u. Nhưng nh?ng giÌ€ BuÌ£t daÌ£y thiÌ€ r?t Ä'Æ¡n gi?n vaÌ€ không keÌ£t vaÌ€o ngôn từ.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
M? già như chu?i ba hương Như xôi n?p má»™t, như ???ng mía lau
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Hãy Ä'i nh?ng bước chân như hôn vào m?t ??t Hãy Ä'i nh?ng bước chân như vá»— v? trái ??t
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
I think (too much), therefore I am (not there to live my life).
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Eat in a way that is relaxing and brings you joy. It doesn't take too much organizing and the results are profound.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Our tendency is to think that if we let go, we'll lose the things that make us happy. But the opposite is true. The more we let go, the happier we become.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
the miracle is not to walk on water or in thin air, but to walk on Earth.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Live every moment of your life deeply, and while walking, eating, drinking, and looking at the morning star, you touch the ultimate dimension.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Every step brings you home to the here and the now, so you can connect with yourself, your body, and your feelings. That is a real connection. You don't need a device that tells you how many friends you have or how many steps you've walked or how many calories you've burned.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
If you feel that your dreams aren't coming true, you might think that you need to do more, or to think and strategize more. In fact, what you might need is less—less noise coming to you from both inside and outside—so that you have the space for your heart's truest intention to germinate and flourish.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
We may spend our lives chasing after wealth, status, influence, and sensual pleasures, thinking they will improve the quality of our life. And yet we end up not having any time left to live.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Bước Ä'i trên m?t ??t Ä'ã là má»™t phép l?.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
To abandon the present in order to look for things in the future is to throw away the substance and hold onto the shadow.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
There are two ways to wash the dishes. The first is to wash the dishes in order to have clean dishes and the second is to wash the dishes in order to wash the dishes.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
The space itself, your home, naturally has a message and intention.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh