Quotes About Simplicity

My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.

Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.

Nothing here but kitchen things.

When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.

To her, there was only one shade to every color. This was the difference between us. She was happy with the one shade.

want her to see that I understand there are no secrets to a charmed life. There is just the simple truth that you must forgive yourself for only being able to make your own choices, and no one else's.

The picture of her on that sofa with Kat sitting next to her on a blanket with Sarah in her lap is a beautiful image I know I will always remember.

Supper is stew and dumplings and apple brown betty for dessert, and, oh, how wonderful the simple meal tastes.

there are no secrets to a charmed life. There is just the simple truth that you must forgive yourself for only being able to

The key to retirement is to find joy in the little things.

Wabi-sabi" is a Japanese expression for the beauty of impermanence,

as frank and open and honest as the eye of a little child. It looks one in the face and knows no fear or shame. It has nothing to explain and need make no apologies.

Another writer described the building as being "as frank and open and honest as the eyes of a little child. It looks one in the face and knows no fear or shame. It has nothing to explain and need make no apologies.

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair and let us huddle together as darkness takes over. We are at home amidst the birds and the trees, for we are children of nature.

In Henry David Thoreau's Walden, written during his year in a one-room cabin with few possessions, is this quote: "The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life that is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

I've come to think that if doing something simple or silly can give a person pleasure, then, by God, do it

Kids aren't supposed to have to figure out how to be happy. They just are.

Love wasn't love if she had to try too hard to feel it.

Technology can do a great deal to make information gathering easier, but it can do little to simplify the gathering of wisdom.

There is nothing like a grocery list to remind us how human we are.

Parlare con lui m'infondeva una piacevole sensazione di familiarità, come accade con certi personaggi secondari della nostra infanzia: il gestore del negozio di fumetti, il venditore di caramelle... nonostante il tempo trascorso questi individui sono incapaci di considerarci come gli strani adulti che siamo diventati, e continuano invece a guardarci come i bambini che non abbiamo mai smesso di essere.

People think I'm much more than I am.

This explains why I've been making Recession Tea- letting a teabag steep for half the time it should so I can use it again for a second cup later.

Four can be as stupid as ten. No need to crowd the room.