Quotes About Simplicity

Dwell with yourself, and you will know how short your household stuff is.

We are enriched by not what we posses, but by what we can do without.

Would it not therefore be wiser in moral concerns to acquiesce in the judgement of common reason, or at most only to call in philosophy for the purpose of rendering the system of morals more complete and intelligible, and its rules more convenient for use (especially for disputation), but not so as to draw off the common understanding from its happy simplicity, or to bring it by means of philosophy into a new path of inquiry and instruction?

If there is anything to do, there is certainly a best way to do it, and the best way is both the most economical and the most graceful.

I wonder how it is that we go along year after year never questioning the routines we've set for ourselves, never wondering if it could be different. I feel as if I've opened a door and discovered a way of life that makes so much more sense to me. A slower pace that allows me to actually see the beauty around me. Hear the song in the sounds and feel appreciation for it all.

A better everyday life means getting away from status and conventions -- being freer and more at ease as human beings.

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As she points out, leaving behind the rush-hour commute, corporate politics, and a relentless BlackBerry that never slept was no sacrifice.

One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.

The trouble with people nowadays is they don't know how to do nothing.

I saw her simplicity, her ignorance, her childish unkindness, her unpretty anxious little face. She was not beautiful or brilliantly clever. How false it is to say that love is blind. I could even judge her, I could even condemn her, I could even, in some possible galactic loop of thought, make her suffer.

I was born to be nothing and to have nothing.

Oh if only only only we could be happy and ordinary like other people.

But you are metaphysical, Otto. You ought to think about her in more simple terms.

There had been anguish, fear, indecision, then gradually the brightness of her presence cast beforehand, obliterating all else. Then I was with her and there was strange blankness, and utter calm of delight. Suddenly, down into the furthest crannies of being all was well. It was all so strangely simple too, with a blameless simplicity as of childhood.

Uno de los secretos de una vida feliz es la continuidad de los pequeños placeres, y si algunos pueden ser baratos y conseguidos sin demora, tanto mejor.

Franca, darling, let's be simple. And move quietly in the dark.

Her mum thought gourmet cooking was putting a load of fish fingers under the grill instead of in the frying pan.

Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.

The simplest things that need self-restraint are the most difficult to replicate.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

There is a longing for a supposedly simple and virtuous past that is almost universal among the people of a complex and vicious society.

Actually, they where the Simple-Lifers, hungering after a life, which to those who lived it had probably appeared not so Simple, and who had not been, therefore, Simple-Lifers themselves.

I grow grandiose, which is a good sign I should become prosaic.